Just wonderful

Rating: 10/10 (20 November 2016)

I am a huge Harry Potter fan and when the film was first announced I was excited hoping Alfonso Cuaron will come back to direct this film, but was a little disappointed when I heard David Yates will be the director. Now I can say that I don't feel disappointed at all. I was so happy about having a Hufflepuff as a hero (being one myself), and Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander (Norbert Dragonneau in French) did such a wonderful job to portray the character. The way he doesn't look at people in the eyes when he talks to them and the way he speaks and moves, a very introverted young man who prefers the company of his friendly beasts than of his fellow wizards: "people tend to find me a bit annoying really" I remember him saying to Jacob, his new Muggle/No-Maj friend. MACUSA was so entertaining to watch with so much details put everywhere, you have to watch the entire sequence many times to get everything that's for sure.
I just LOVED watching every moments Colin Farrell was on the screen, he's easily one of the best characters of this film playing the American Auror Percival Graves. I just fell in love with his interpretation of the character. Ezra Miller was really cool and dark and so touching as Credence with Mary Lou (his adoptive mother) bringing some dark moods to the film.
In overall I think that the film is meant for everyone to watch Potterhead or not, even if I might say there are some few things in the film that feels a bit dark for younger audiences but the whole is so whimsical the dark is mingled to the bright moments. I loved the Niffler so much, wish for Christmas: I want a Niffler. He was so funny and cute. It's really filled with great humour a loads of magical feeling. Don't waste your time reading all of this, just go watch it, it'll be so worth it and much fun. The 3D was one of the best I've seen this far, very useful to the story for once, with from time to time some creatures going out of the screen and even some cobblestones being blown out in your face, very entertaining! Some moments and things were unfortunately easily predictable though. 9 points for Hufflepuff out of 10.
Spoiler time: Colin Farrell better come back! I loved his acting and Johnny Depp as Grindelwad isn't necessarily a bad casting choice as many have said I think, even if I would have liked Mads Mikkelsen or Alexander Skarsgård (even his father Stellan, why not) in his place for the Scandinavian side (Grindelwald being Swedish). But now that I've seen the performance of Colin Farrell as Grindelwald like the moment where he interrogates Newt about Dumbledore: he was fantastic! I hope his character isn't dead but more like the real Mad Eye kidnapped but kept alive by Barty Crouch Jr. The scene of the execution at MACUSA felt so dark, the beasts that felt really CGI-created were cool but almost irrelevant unfortunately with so many things going on. Some moments the CGI was well done other times not so much. I hated the fact we didn't get to see the proper entrance the the Blind Pig bar (with the door appearing out of the brick wall, could've been a reminiscent scene of Diagon Alley but in this cut they just go from outside to already inside: that really bothered me, but it's just a detail I know.