What a shame that a superbly scripted and filmed series like the Wizarding World franchise that what we have here is such a limp rag of a film that relies on CGI rather than a clever script. The characters aren't developed in any depth and relationships are over dramatised and over schmaltzy. The initially welcome and subtle Americanisation of the series seen in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is completing itself in this film in an unsavoury way with the hugging sequences and concentration on concepts like "home", "family" and themes like the importance of having "family history" (re the character Credence and his antecedents) and, whilst I'm on this tack, what on earth is the character "Jacob" doing in this series? He's just another character like Otis from Superman 2. In fact this episode in the Wizarding World franchise is more like a thrown out script from the fantastic Avengers series of films with the wizards and witches transformed into Superheroes. There are silly, amateurish, touches as well such as all the vehicles and people in the street scenes moving at the same speed (with the exception of the protagonists) and the usually superbly atmospheric Hogwarts seems to be lacking a dimension and has hardly any students. If this was a standalone movie it might just win a few more stars but as it is dragging a once great movie franchise out of the golden glow that it has achieved into the cheap and emotional gutters of the usual lacklustre Hollywood sequel it gets one star from me.