It's the not-so-secret love child of Michael Bay and J. J. Abrahams after surviving a weekend at aunt Rowling's. when she was on drugs!

Rating: 2/10 (18 May 2018)

I don't like making bad reviews. It makes me feel bad for the actors and crew involved, and I believe they meant well.
But, as a die-hard Harry Potter fan, I felt even worst watching this movie! Insulted, even!
The question that popped on my head every 5 minutes of film was "Is this what would happen if Michael Bay would direct something HP related?". The answer is "Yes.", sadly.
It did take me a lot of time to finally watch this, I watched on 18th of May, 2018. Why? Well, I did have a bad vibe about it. And damn, I was right.
It´s a Fantastic Show of CGI! And nothing but that! It´s like 98% of the movie is just CGI, and there are half a dozen characters around. And neither of them are important at all. The so called "fantastic beasts" are irrelevant! Newt is irrelevant. All of them, all of that, all is irrelevant. It has no connection to the Harry Potter world at all. They just hold wands (and just sometimes), and occasionally cast a spell.
The fantastic beasts appear for brief moments, short minutes, and are useless! New has an ultra-magical suitcase that holds an entire city inside, and that city is filled with fantastically useless animals. And they show up for mere moments. But the deal is, they didn´t even have to show up. They don´t matter. At all! It seems like those scenes are just for the CGI crew to show-off, "Look what I can do now!", and they created scenarios inside Newt´s bag, and showed some huge and crazy-looking animals. And that´s it!
Oh, and the "Michael Bay" touch: destruction, explosions and mayhem throughout 1920's New York City. I mean, half the city was wrecked, but at the end of the movie, the "American Bureau for Magic" (or whatever, I forgot the name, it's also useless!) fixed everything in a matter of minutes. So, if they could do all that, why were they worried in the first place? The CGI scenes are way too long, too heavy and unnecessary! Newt's beasts are useless, the wands are useless, the whole damn movie is pointless!
The house-elves. Oh, damn. Well, it seems America is indeed the Land of the Free, because American house-elves were already free and rich by the year 1926! Wow, call that progress! However, wizards still lived in fear of muggles (sorry, No-Maj), and hid from view.
It's not a Harry Potter World movie. Wizards, wands, the half a dozen spells that were cast, it could all be removed, and wouldn´t be missed. Actually, there's no plot at all, no character's depth, no meaning to anything. It's a crazy made-up story about Grindelwald that we were never told before. Maybe because it's stupid and pointless. It's like things happen at random, people are lost among the wreckage of a city inhabited by idiots (both wizards and normal folk), and nothing matters.
There´s the cute friendship and love thing going on with the 4 main characters. Of course, there's gotta be a cute message. But the Aurors also killed a kid at the end, so that's nasty! Grindelwald was disguised as an Auror and nobody noticed. Tina was clumsy and dumb, and was also an Auror. Her sister read everyone's minds at all times, and never knew what to do. Kowalski, the muggle, accepted the whole magic world all too easily. Newt was also dumb, way too weird and stupid. I mean, the guy destroyed half a city just to get his pets back. Of course, to hell with civilization, let me just get my cute pets back, because humans are evil! Yeah, makes total sense, Mr. Old-School-PETA-soldier! And sure, his beloved pet saves the city (or the world?) at the end, when Newt reveals he had a special potion his big bird could use to fix everything. Completely believable. Yes, it is! It happen to me last month too! And, poor Mr. Grindelwald was also lost and confused in all that. The most powerful dark wizard (in my opinion, even greater thatn Voldemort) was completely lost. And, at the end, he got his derrièr kicked by Newt, who, I've no idea why, decided to cast a spell called "Revelio". I mean, why did he do that? To bring about the movie climax? Sure. But why? What was he suspecting?
It´s all stupid and pointless! An insult to HP fans! I got really angry and disappointed at Rowling. And, surprise surprise, it'll be a 5 movie thing! Because, sure, let's make things worse! Money!
I's a ridiculous movie! There's nothing related to HP world. The wands and spells are useless. The beasts are useless. No plot, no story, useless characters. And way too heavy on CGI!
It's the not-so-secret love child of Michael Bay and J. J. Abrahams after surviving a weekend at aunt Rowling's. when she was on drugs!
If you love the HP world, if you're a fan, stay clear from this! Seriously!