If you are a fan of spectacular special effects then this movie is for you. Lots of explosions and mystical transportation's appearances and disappearances. Full of intelligent magical animals. If, on the other hand, you would like some sort of coherent story to go with it then you will be seriously disappointed. Trying to figure out who all the characters are and what drives them and who they are allied with is a whole 'nuther story. I can't believe that J. K. Rowling wrote such a mess. This is a pretty long movie - over 2 hours - but finally in the end I was left hanging. Like, what the hell, what just happened.