Fantastic Beasts and where to find them (2016)

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Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Colin Farrell, Dan Fogler, Katherine Waterson

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

Despite the big hype and the film’s huge commercial success, I did not enjoy it one bit. It is cartoonish silly at times without an ounce of realism. Just like JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series I couldn’t be bothered with anything about this movie. It’s just not convincing. The visual effects are indeed incredible, but that’s just it; the film is all about effects…I still don’t know what the film is really about. The story was just not interesting enough to justify me sitting through this for over two hours. It was like watching a documentary on what can be accomplished with effects. Nothing else.

The film earned $814 million on a $140 million budget and received numerous awards nominations, of which it won quite a few, including Best Actor, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design.