I really liked the first Fantastic Beasts movie. It introduced a new point of view from the Harry Potter universe, away from school and towards the wider, fascinating world. Unfortunately, this movie here doesn't continue where the last one left off and stumbles over itself more than it manages to fascinate. The main plot point is the boy Creedence from the first movie. We know he is bearing some kind of powerful magic energy, unfortunately he ran off to Paris, nowhere to be found. Now obviously, many different factions want to find this boy to use him for their own purposes, protect him, or just kill him, including our hero Newt Scarmander. I'm not going to spoil anything about the plot, but the big problem with this movie is that basically everyone gets their own underdeveloped little subplot which just meanders through the movie and for most of the movie you feel like nothing is actually happening (because in fact, nothing is happening). You're watching characters that are not interesting doing things you don't care about and finding out things that are not important and you're constantly wondering what this all has to do with anything. Young Dumbledore shows up and you learn how he is connected to this whole thing - but that's it. He doesn't do anything and his presence has no consequence, he might as well not be in the movie. Of course, what he says will be important for the next movie I guess, but that's the problem. The whole movie is basically a giant buildup...but for what? The next one? There is no real payoff at the end. Overall this movie is boring and irritating and it even fails at what Harry Potter is best - worldbuilding. You don't really learn or see much about the magical life in Paris at all. Oh - and there aren't all that many fantastic beasts either, despite what the title promises.