The magical touch of J.K. Rowling makes this adventure quite extraordinary

Rating: 9/10 (20 November 2016)

Before watching the movie, I was worried that it would turn out to be similar to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which was decent and entertaining, but missed that special something that made the original Harry Potter series the all-time favorite of so many people across the world. After watching the first few minutes of the film, all my worries of such passed, as I was once again enthralled by that atmosphere of mischievous, unmatched humour that I first experienced while reading chapter one of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for the first time.
Throughout the whole movie, it was obvious that only one person in the world could tell this story in such a unique way: it is charming and funny at the same time. It was the exact same feeling I had whilst reading or watching the original series: I actually believed that this parallel world exists, because no one "would have the brains to make this up". As the story progressed, it became obvious that this movie had a deeper meaning as well, and a main hidden message: be yourself, because withholding who you are is never the solution. The positive example is set by Newt, who was expelled from Hogwarts for being too friendly with dangerous beasts, therefore he had every right to think he has to stop this, that he has to restrain his urge to study magical creatures. He even had a strong reason to hate them. But he didn't, he chose to be himself, and made it his life's mission to help these creatures to a better life, and tried to convince his fellow wizards to stop hurting them. And it paid off in the end. He chose love instead of hatred, and he became who he was meant to be, a world-famous magizoologist. The negative example in the movie is Credence, who has extraordinary magical powers, but is forced to conceal them throughout his youth. He does this until he reaches a certain point where he becomes extremely unhappy. After a while, the withheld magic inside of him implodes, with catastrophic results. Credence was of course strongly influenced by his so called mother, but he could have ran away, he had the choice to be himself. Instead, he became more and more absorbed in self-pity, calling himself a "freak", he chose to hate himself instead of accepting who he is and escaping from the toxic people around him. He chose hatred instead of love, and that was the reason for his tragic death at the end. For the final scenes of the movie, we returned to the happy world of the main characters, who said their goodbye's in a memorable fashion.
The acting throughout the movie was obviously brilliant, especially the performance of the actors playing Queenie, Newt and of course Kowalski. David Yates did a fine job, and the CGI was also quite something. But I will always remember this movie as the second proof of the genius of Rowling. She did it again.