Unfortunately, this second outing with Newt Scamander heads farther downhill than the first film traveled. The plot is so nonsensical that the movie plays out like five script revisions were tossed down the stairs, piled back together, and then handed out for shooting to begin. The script also suffers from the disparate themes of fantastic beasts and Grindelwald's antics being held together by duct tape to form one story. There's a plot buried in this mess, but it needed a story editor to clean it up first before making the movie.