Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) by Jdiaz — 12 Mar 2017
This movie is an insult to the original Harry Potter movies. Is this how old Star Wars fans felt when they saw The Phantom Menace?
The first part of the movie is terrible, it's slow and uneventful. It was still an ok movie by that point. In the second half, however, ok turned to utter **** How can JK Rowling go from writing a plot twist spanning 7 books and 8 movies to writing this turd? She violated the rules of her own world by approving this. Graves' wand connecting randomly? No, the cores of the wands have to be the same. That was reserved for the climax of three of the old movies, and they just throw it around here? No. And Obliviate rain? Give me a **** break. The people in the theater were laughing, I was crying inside.
The movie's score, which in some bad movies is good, is completely terrible. James Newton Howard, you are not a bad composer, how could you do this? He attempts to emulate the previousl movies' score from start to finish, and he fails terribly. You're no John Williams, son. Be original.
I'm not even going to mention the cringe-worthy CGI...
Johnny Depp was the only positive aspect of this movie. I am giving this one star because of him.
Rowling, you should be ashamed of yourself.
This review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) was written by Jdiaz on 12 Mar 2017.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has generally received positive reviews.
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