Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a pleasant watch with some charmingly cute moments. It's high production value and its basis in the official Wizarding World of Harry Potter make it a very decent and entertaining watch.

The magic is, however, so abundant and almighty that this movie holds little mystery and danger. Plotwise, it doesn't differ much from your average Marvel movie, the special effects have not yet crossed the uncanny valley and the humour is sadly infantile and... American.

All the famous, high-grossing actors in this film are merely vultures feasting on a dead franchise, with the exception of Eddie Redmayne, who continues to surprise with his spot-on performances time after time.

The score by James Newton Howard tries to capture Harry's wondrous world, but is never interesting nor exciting. It doesn't have the frivolous extravaganza of John Williams, nor the drama of Patrick Doyle, nor the wit of Nicholas Hooper; instead, it mostly resembles the basic sound of Alexandre Desplat's score for the Deathly Hallows. It shamelessly copies Hedwig's theme and puts it in a moment of little meaning.

But don't get me wrong! It's fun and decent enough to pass. But at it's centre it's no more than the final convulsion of Harry Potter's success.