A more positive review

Rating: 9/10 (30 March 2017)

Alright due to the number of negative reviews here I decided it needed some more positive ones as well.
As most people my age I grew up with Harry Potter, I loved the books and enjoyed the movie and spent a lot of time in between each book reading fan fictions and dreaming about the Harry Potter world. Still I can honestly say I feel The Fantastic Beasts is the best of all the Harry Potter movies (if you categorise it as a Harry Potter movie). This is mostly due to the completeness of the story as a movie in comparison to the Harry Potter movies that only felt complete in its book form and often lacked essential details for the story to make sense as a movie. This might be obvious as this was written as a movie from the start, but I still find it an important point.
In this movie we are introduced to the wizard world in America which is shown to have a lot of issues. I really enjoy how J K Rowling has used the history of the time and brought real societies into the movie, giving it a sense of realism and grounding it to our world. Of course not everyone might realise this (myself included, I was never good in history). As the story develops however, it seems a bit like two parallel story lines happening at ones and one not completely finishing. This I find is quite reasonable as this is the first movie of a series after all and you need some side action (+ I love the fun creatures).
The main character Newt Scamander kind seem a bit weird at times and a bit hard to understand, nevertheless I found him quite relatable due to this. As someone that often comes across as a bit shy and introverted there is very few relatable characters on the screen, but I do understand how it might be seen as a bit unusual to have this kind of lead when we are not used to it.
In the end I really love how well the story references to the Harry Potter books. There was not a single point which made me doubt the story and everything just fits, even solving some unsolved mysterious.