Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards set seventy years before Harry Potter reads his first book in Hogwart's school.

 

The detail and thought that went into the Harry Potter characters and its story certainly wasn't applied to this wanna be, which, like the Hobbit and so many other Hollywood letdowns, merely seeks massive profits by piggybacking on a successful franchise like Harry Potter while being utterly devoid of substance.

 

It not even worth going into much detail. There is only one character people really take a liking to, though you can't really relate to any of these characters because we know absolutely nothing about their back stories, nor do they have any developed relationships with each other anywhere along the way.

The whole movie is built around these magical creatures doing massive damage to New York City, a ridiculous idea to portray, as the damage is ridiculous and there is nothing done in reality. The complicated boundaries between the magical and non-magical worlds and the people, are completely absent. The most ridiculous example of idiotic, careless detail is that for most of the scenes on the streets of New York City, it is a ghost town unlike what it would really have looked like, whereas in reality, in the 20s New York City was nearly as over populated as it is to this day. Quite possibly more so back then than even now days.