Redmayne was great...As well as Waterson and a great job by Kowalski... these 3 characters carried the movie...Ferrell was completely miscast ... he's not the actor I once thought he was.. he plays the same solemn angry guy every time, I think thats his real persona. So many actors are like that.. they play themselves but can't ever really act when they're called to creat a character. He's way way overrated as an actor...but the other 3 were just 'fantastic'. The movie had great scenes of the Beasts and such but there wasn't much of a plot. If it weren't for Redmayne I suspect this would have been a major flop. Kowalski too was just great... I hope the second movie has more 'teeth' to it. And Collin... I hope you've gone in another direction.