An extension of the Potterverse juggernaut, this takes us back to before the sprogs were entering school to a New York of the 1920s, where Eddie Redmayne, a wizard whose specialist interest is mythical creatures, arrives and has to set out soon in search of missing specimens from his menagerie. Meanwhile, Colin Farrell, as a senior wizard in the local fraternity, has sinister plans to gain power by controlling a cloud-like parasite called an Obscurus.
So far, so familiar. But despite being kid-friendly through the weird creatures in it, imaginatively realised,
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has more adult appeal than all the Potter films, largely because it's not set in a public school: the depiction of the New York of yesteryear is just as rich as that of the beasts. It's hardly a thing of great depth, but rollicking fun all the same.
6/10
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