I want to like this movie because I want more Harry Potter universe movies. However, I can't and it is not because of expectations or anything, I didn't have any, but it is because they messed it up really badly.

The movie starts off showing headlines, newspaper articles showing about a mysterious and bad man who is never again mentioned in the movie. At the end of the movie a random person suddenly goes: POOF! "Hello! I was actually that villain you read about in the beginning of this movie. Remember? Since it stated he was a bad guy, we can end the movie when I lose." Weird isn't it? You'd assume J.K. Rowling knew how to structure stories but this is some 3rd grade writing right there.

Nevertheless, the movie kicks off by following the character 'Newt' who accidentally unleash magical creatures over the city of New York. This was a rather bad idea of him as Newt should know that if you enter the city of New York in movie... Well... It will be destroyed. Anything that Newt does in this movie doesn't really matter because, despite the title, magical creatures have nothing to do with the movie. The subplot is suddenly what takes over just so they can destroy New York city.

The adventure and joy of Harry Potter and magic was good there for a good portion of the movie but got a massive beat down when the creators realized the credits were suddenly approaching. If you would cut out the last 1/3 of the movie, I'd given it 7/10. I would probably thought it was a surprising abrupt ending. Now though... I never want to see that low level of story telling ever again.

Side note: Did you know how many times New York have been destroyed in movies? I googled and some guy counted back in 2014 to 66. They movie industry really blowing that place up.