An average movie

To be honest, I have never been a huge fan of Harry Potter but I was still eager to check this last installment in this Wizarding World franchise. Well, this movie is usually considered as the lowest point in this franchise, critically and commercially, and I’m afraid I would have to agree with this assessment. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, J.K. Rowling took the wrong approach with this franchise right from the start. Indeed, Newt Scamander was a pretty cool character, completely different than Harry Potter, and, in my opinion, each movie could or should have been about Scamander going into some exotic locations looking for some mythical creatures. Unfortunately, the guy eventually has to stop some evil wizard which was rather disappointing as it was pretty much exactly what Potter had to do. I mean, in contrary to many viewers, I didn’t have any problem with Johnny Depp playing Gellert Grindelwald, I think he did a fine job, but this character is just way too similar to Voldemort (seriously, don’t they have exactly the same goal?). To make things worse, there was this time around a whole bunch of half-baked sub-plots involving various romances and some more or less obscure genealogy and the end-result was just pretty messy. It’s too bad because I do have a weak spot for Newt Scamander and it was also pretty neat to see a younger Albus Dumbledore, even if he showed up only for a few scenes after all. Anyway, to conclude, even if the whole thing was rather weak, I have to admit that it was quite spectacular and I guess it is worth a look if you like the genre.