If I could go back in time, I wouldn't bother

Rating: 2/10 (24 November 2016)

I went to see Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them yesterday even though the trailer had left me unimpressed. From this, I went to the cinema to see it with the expectation that it was going to be average but watchable. I was vastly disappointed.
Fantastic Beasts tries to be two opposite things at once, a light- hearted comedy and a dark drama, and it does not work. The Harry Potter movies (and books) managed to do this to some extent by incorporating some light touches of comedy within the more dramatic storyline. Fantastic Beasts has blown up the comedy aspect to the point where you don't know exactly what genre of movie you're watching. It would have been better to just stick to one thing. The contrast between the two sides and parallel story lines in the movie was just to stark in my opinion to be able to enjoy it, and I really struggled with the more light-hearted part to the story, which felt very forced.
Eddie Redmayne is an amazing actor, but I found him average in Fantastic Beasts. This is possibly due to the character he was playing or to the director. He seemed to only have one facial expression: pouting slightly looking up a bit with his floppy hair hiding half of his face. I found his character, as well as Tina, Queeny and Jacob, to be highly unrelatable. Which is probably why I enjoyed the "subplot" - quotation marks because it felt like it should be the main plot - better.