Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Rating: 5/10 (7 November 2017)

When this film came out I wanted to see it in theaters but missed the chance. The wizarding world of Harry Potter is something I've really grown to enjoy over the years, even though I don't watch them all the time on freeform channel station (I swear they give those movies every damn weekend). Now we have a new chapter and it's a pretty good ride. Set in 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations. The film does have quite few issues, I mean even it's conception is weird. Apparently this is based of a book that's based of a textbook in Hogwarts. The actors are all good choices my favorite being Eddie Redmayne as Newt. Colin Farrell was also good as Percival Graves, Katherine Waterson was good as Tina, I'd say most of the actors were good. Except Ezra Miller he was just playing some weak emo kid. The problem with the characters is that even the main ones like Newt, Tina and Queenie. They were all quite uninteresting. The best character in the movie is actually revealed at the very end of the film and is played by Johnny Depp. When Johnny Depp plays a pale weirdo it usually isn't good. Unless everything else is and he's only weak link. The ending was kind of good but I was hoping that the events of the film who would lead to the consequence of the wizarding world being exposed to muggles and would be left open to explore that in a further film. The best thing I can say about the ending is that it feels like a complete when I watch it. The special effects were good and they seem to be keeping David Yates on directing the rest of the wizarding world movies, I mean he's been on this franchise since Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix( which is the first Harry Potter film I saw in theaters and went back saw the rest became a fan and finished the series). You would hope David Yates directs other types of films soon to expand his horizon but the direction was good. If any I wasn't big on the writing for this movie. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a nice start to this prequel series set within the wizarding world with good actors, effects, direction but just overall poor writing. I'm giving Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them a three out of five.