Harry Potter: The Biggest Mistake Each Wizarding World Film Has Made

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a good spin-off film overall. It benefits from terrific performances, a great setting and from just being a very nice film in general, but it lacks the punch of the majority of the Harry Potter films and is slightly on the forgettable side overall.

The reason for this is that the story lacks a real sense of peril or urgency. Most of it is just its round-up of characters running around New York and hunting for some escaped magical creatures, while the stuff do with Grindelwald (Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp) and Creedence Barebone (Ezra Miller) feels shoe-horned in.

There are some exciting moments regarding the Creedence story-line, but it's never prominent enough to make much of an impact.

It's a nice movie, but it does feel somewhat disposable and it really could've had a better, more exciting story.