I'm a huge Harry Potter and also found the first Fantastic Beasts movie very entertaining.That's why I was really looking forward to the movie "The Crimes of Grindelwald". Unfortunately, I was more than disappointed and even angry. No magic but CGI: Due to the many "too much wanted" special effects, all the charm of the Harry Potter world has been lost. Harry Potter always gave the feeling that the parallel world could actually exist. The wizards were able to perform magic, but they were not all-powerful. The magic and its possibilities and limitations were in the foreground and not the special effects, as with this film, which has become an exchangeable fantasy film for me. The world of Fantastic Beasts looks much more modern and has many more possibilities than Harry Potter's, which is paradoxical. Of course this also has to do with the advanced movie technology, but does it have to be maxed out? Would not it make more sense to focus more on the characters and psychology than on CGI in the end? Story without depth: I had my other problem with the story. While at first I found it very charming that Harry Potter characters are present in the movie, I was ultimately disappointed with the depth. Too many characters are introduced but without profundity. Unfortunately, also the sympathetic characters from the first film seemed "dulled" due to the lack of profundity. I find the acting skills of the cast members Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law (perfect cast for the young Dumbledore), Zoë Kravitz and the others very good, which is why I still give the film 4 stars. Unfortunately, they could not fully demonstrate their skills in the movie because of the above points. This is of course only my opinion and therefore to be considered subjective. I just hope that the filmmakers not only hope for the "big money" in the next films, but actually produce a worthy film with depth.