First installment of the Fantastic Beasts series from JK Rowling's wizarding World, featuring the adventures of Magizoologist Newt Scamander : Eddie Redmayne . As writer Newt Scamander goes NY , there he meets a member of the Magic Congress of the United States of America MACUSA : Katherine Waterston , though he's unaware of the dangers that lie ahead in an increasingly divided wizarding World . Explore a new era of the wizarding World before Harry Potter ! . What would you do if your beasts escaped ? . The fate of one will change the future of all. Who will change the Future ?

JK Rowling invites you to a new era of the wizarding World full of spectacular and overwhelming fantastic aventures , set seventy years before Harry Potter arrives in the marvellous school Hogwarts . It contains state-of-art SFX , over-the-top thrills , wonderful creatures , though lacking a good character studio and a better pacing than Harry Potter series . Interpretations are uniformly acceptable , though starring Eddie Redmayne playing an introverted character and a little silly role , along with the botcher but sympathetic role Kowalski : Dan Fogler and Katherine Waterston as the mysterious Tina . They are well accompanied by a good support cast , such as : Samantha Morton , Ezra Miller , Dan Hedaya , Gemma Chan , Carmen Ejojo , John Voight and two superstars : Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp . Good of entertainment for kids and adults , although a bit long for the very young .

The motion picture was professionally directed by David Yates . It displays an enlightening and brilliant cinematography by Phillippe Rousselot . As well as moving and thrilling musical score by James Newton Howard . This fine filmmaker David Yates is an expert British craftsman who already made other Harry Potter entries : Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , Potter and the half-blood Prince , Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 and part 2 . It was followed by Fantastic Beasts : The Crimes of Grindelwald 2018 by David Yates with Eddie Redmayne , Katherine Waterston , Zoe Kravitz , Carmen Ejojo, Ezra Miller , Jude Law and Johhny Depp .