Rowling meets superheroes

Rating: 3/10 (2 January 2017)

I've seen all the Harry Potter movies, courtesy of my 20 yr old daughter growing up with the saga. HP's beauty was all about these young characters growing up in a challenging world. Magic helped making it fascinating, but never came close to overcome the characters and their story. In a way, one would exit the theater thinking the real world is not so different from Hogwarts, if you are able to look carefully into it. Fantastic Beasts is a completely different piece of work, like a B superhero movie transposed in a JK Rowling setting. Characters are thinly developed, a plethora of magic animals are introduced without any real explanation or meaning, and the only thing remaining are stunning but repetitive special effects. It may be a crowd pleaser, but certainly not something JK Rowling will be remembered for.