Pretender to the Throne

Rating: 6/10 (26 November 2016)

Sure certain familiar things are there for openers the music we all love from Harry Potter not to mention the color palette automatically puts us at ease and hearing the word Hogwarts was the icing on the cake.
Outside of that then it's all downhill. Colin Farrell seems to be making a walking appearance and you forget he is in it until he re-appears. Save for the baker and the beauty who falls for him this is a hodge-podge that doesn't know which way is up and relies too much on special effects.
Especially annoying is the "Obscurial" whose ultra-violent destruction of everything that's on its path is reminiscent of "Doomsday" in Batman vs. Superman. Another mess.
Yeah I get Johnny Depp appearing under Colin's skin but character development suffers greatly. This has been a trip down the nostalgia memory lane for one thing = $$$$.
Harry Potter was actually good mythology. Fantastic Beasts sounds like the bean counters encouraged JK Rowling to Go For It!!!!