"So you're the guy with the case full of monsters, huh?"

Rating: 8/10 (5 June 2017)

I come to the film with no built in expectations by being a Harry Potter fan because I'm not one. I enjoyed the films in that series until I hit a wall with 'Order of the Phoenix' when it got just a bit too tedious for me. But because I generally like whimsical stories, I found this one to be fairly entertaining. I like the creativity involved in putting together the 'beasts' of the picture, even if most of them looked like composite animals from planet Earth. Eddie Redmayne in the lead role of Newt Scamander was a bit of a puzzler though, in as much as it seemed like he reverse aged from his roles in "The Theory of Everything" and "The Danish Girl"; I didn't know what to make of that. He actually did strike me as a teenager even though he's in his mid-Thirties, so more power to maintaining a youthful look as one gets older. Dan Fogler was good too as somewhat of a comic relief character and would be baker. Since I'm not up on the world of wizards, the story was a little confusing at times but I got the gist of it. In fact, I'd be up for a repeat viewing at some point, maybe before the next movie in the series comes out. Unless I get obliviated.