I'll keep this fairly blunt. Johhny Depp was a mistake for 2 reasons.1. He phones it in! Even the cgi animals act him off the screen.. and they are ridiculously absent for the vast majority of this movie. He's about as emotive as a brain-dead sea anemone & can't decide on an accent - which he mumbles whenever he lands on one in the moment. 2. His Look/Costume...It's shocking - I can almost understand the logic that dictated his look being stark and blonde - almost, but he can't pull it off. There's nothing malevolent about him. I could go on about the bland but let's talk about everyone else. The two romance sub plots have huge holes in them and are barely given a nod within the movie. The search for a mother sub plot is also very thin, and I have to really question as to why 'Fantastic Beasts' was even included in the title, because the beasts rarely were included in the movie.

I am an avid admirer of J k Rowlings work, and I am very happy to re-watch the first in this series many many times, but this one needed way more of her magic to justify my ever bothering with it again.