Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards and witches. They soon encounter an array of old and new beasts as they clash with Grindelwald's growing legion of followers.
These Fantastic Beasts movies are very hard to review. The Harry Potter franchise is and will forever be in the upper echelon of filmmaking and no matter how hard they try to recapture that magic with this prequel kind of spinoff franchise, they are always just kind of there. This one is no different and was even more cursed with the controversies of the cast and the creator leading to changes and recasting that ultimately takes away from the continuity. It really is a shame that even using familiar characters from the Harry Potter franchise can't really help this one out.
I would sort of recommend checking this out. I mean if you saw the others then why not see this one. But it's just not remotely up to par. None of them have been and this one least of all.
