Better than Harry Potter, but takes you to a new era of the Wizarding community in 1920's America

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2018)

Having already grown up with all 8 Harry Potter films since I was six, over the last fifteen years, I went to see 'Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them' on the very day it opened at the Movie House Cinema.
'Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them' is the first in a series of 5 films called 'Fantastic Beasts' which is set long before the Harry Potter films and inspired by J.K. Rowling's textbook which she wrote to benefit for Comic Relief in 2001.
In 1926, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) travels to New York City with a suitcase full of magical creatures which are let loose and then discovers that there is an evil presence lurking around and taking over the whole city. He first meets a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), a former MASCUSA employer Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) and her younger sister Qunnie (Alison Sudol), for the first time who team up with him to find the missing creatures.
They find out that the evil presence lurking around the city is actually an Obscurial called Credence (Ezra Miller) who is abused by his adoptive mother Mary Lou (Samantha Morton), who works for The New Salem Philanthropic Society, and under the control of Percival Graves (Colin Farrell).
If you haven't seen 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' or any of the 8 Harry Potter films already, go and watch them before you see the next 'Fantastic Beasts' film 'The Crimes of the Grindelwald' which will be showing in the cinema this year.