Expecto Samethingicus

Rating: 6/10 (18 January 2017)

I saw this movie a few nights ago and i found it enjoyable up to a certain degree. I like certain parts about it, and disliked other parts. As is tradition: Good sides first, bad sides later.
Good sides:
A fun new story: The story on itself was enjoyable enough. Newt Scamander arrives in New York with a briefcase full of the most outrageous and fantastic beasts known and unknown to man. But then... a few escape and he finds himself to be arrested for doing it on purpose. Dunn.. Dunn. DUUUNNNN
Rowling's Imagination: we are once again astounded by the fantasy that J.K. Rowling has to offer to us. The animals are as crazy and as adorable and as awesome and as cute as you can think of... and possibly even more so. It is truly fun and mind-blowing to see that she has made this world come alive and i agree with one of the muggles: "I know i'm dreaming, because i don't have the brain to make this up."
New lands to explore: We get to see a new side to the Wizarding World that JK has created, besides just seeing Hogwarts in England. This time it is New York and how the magic society works there.
Effects: The special effects and the animals that are there in the movie look truly amazing. The special Effects department did an amazing job to make everything look real.
Now for the bad parts, because it does have those too.
Same Things happen: I must say that despite the fun story, it was predictable. Main guy gets in trouble, the Ministry goes after him and only makes things worse. They react as you would expect. They don't trust the main character and say he is out of line when suggesting something even a little bit crazy... You live in a magic world! Nothing should be too crazy for you! We are also again confronted with problems that should not be there in the Magic World. You have an entire world in your suitcase? Why do you need a place to stay?
Same humor: I'm not sure if this is to blame on JK, or on the director David Yates, but we have the exact same feeling and scenes as the last 4 Harry Potter movies. The same type of acting, the same type of emotions (or lack thereof), the same type of awkward moments. It is the same thing again. There is little new in that regard. You watch the same movie, just a different setting and story.
Special Effects: It is also listed as a good thing, yet i'd also like to point out that the movie heavily relies on that. In the first few Harry Potter movies the special effects were only a part of it, not the backbone of the movie. That has changed now. The real 'magic feeling' is gone, so now the directors and producers need to make it look good for it to stay interesting.
All in all i liked the first time watching, but i must say that it will take a while before i will see it again. The awkward acting and the same type of pacing is difficult to enjoy after 30 minutes of the same.
There is no natural feeling to the movie. I felt like i was watching a scene-book. You don't watch an entire movie that is put together perfectly so that one scene flows over into the other. You're watching scene 1. Scene 2. Scene 3 and so on and so on.
6 i can give it. a 7 is a bit too much.