I love Harry Potter movies, but I don't know what happened to this one. The first Fantastic Beasts movie was amazing, I love it, however, this one seems like an endless intermission between big events of the past and big upcoming events. The moments and facts we want to see either didn't happen yet or are just mentioned in the past, in a quick flashback or mention. Some references are really out of place and...the characters seem to go nowhere, walking in circles. When watching, I got confused about where the characters were and who was talking about who, and I'm a Harry Potter fan. In my opinion, someone who didn't read the books or who isn't a very observant Harry Potter fan will get very lost watching this movie. Also, the movie starts skipping some events I think that would have been interesting to be seen on screen, like, a lot of things happened between the first movie and this one, but we only get mentions loose along the movie. The characters are very interesting, the acting is great and so is the CGI, the creatures are perfect and all the magic is very realistic, but in general, I found the movie too dark. I understand the importance of light and colors to build different environments, however, there were parts all the darkness made the movie experience poorer for me, in my opinion. Most Harry Potter fans will like it because of the magic world, the creatures, the spells, however, I found this movie really slow and they seem to try to bring up many separate storylines at the same time and...they don't connect very well, I felt like I was watching bits of different stories put together into a movie. As an intermission between great events, as the part of a big sequence of episodes, it's an okay movie, but I think it had so much potential to be greater. I love this franchise but just mentioning important references and characters won't make people like it, there are so many great characters there that could be invested in, have their background stories explored for real, with the proper development, but all we get are fragments and references. Okay, I understand that this movie is just a part of a sequence of episodes and it's not a "climax part" of main story, however, it doesn't work well on it's own. I really want this franchise to get all the love, quality and respect it deserves.