CGI Galore

Rating: 5/10 (16 January 2017)

Lots of weird cgi-created creatures (well done), story-line meh, character-development or -likeability compared to the Harry Potter movies also meh, acting okayish. Conclusion: Fantastic Beast and Where To Find Them is no fiasco or total fail but lacks of real substance and I would have preferred a more daring approach storylike. Why not telling the story of bad ass Lord V. and/or the parents of Harry Potter, or the lifetime story of Dumbledore, or at least something like Mr. S. hunting fantastic beasts across the globe in peculiar spots. Anyway, most of those beasts it seems to me are already in the fantastic suitcase of Scamanders, so we missed all the adventures of hunting and collecting those creatures...
Somehow this movie reminds me of Mr. Lucas - he wrote and made movie-history with his first trilogy of Star Wars and then, well lets be tender, he lost a lot of his capability to write anything resembling an interesting and captivating story. I got to say of all the possibilities to expand the Potter-universe Mrs. Rowling voted imo for a bad (boring) option. This flick is imo a lot like Disneys versions of Alice in Wonderland - you get a lot for your eyes but not much for your mind and heart. And ofc you get the obligatory Depp in it. The 2+ hour movie tasted like a chewing gum to me - the longer I had to chew it, the more it tasted like blabla. Next.