Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2016 fantasy film of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter's existence.
Towards the end, the film gets a little too action-packed, with the city of New York (once again) on the verge of destruction. But there are enough moments of magic in the rest of the movie to make up for it.
It has been made with a lot of style and skill and comes across as much more than the simple cash-in opportunity that it might have initially appeared to be when it was first announced.
Rowling has a voluminous imagination and Yates keeps things humming along, although, as was also true of many Potter movies, there is often too much of a good thing.
Like the first chapter of any story, it has the burden of making you want to come back; and not just for the desperate satisfaction of knowing what's next
