Quite a disappointment coming from this group of veteran Potter world professionals. All of the Potter books and movies with perhaps the exception of HP7 pt 1, had a great element of fun to them. This movie had none. It took a great deal for granted in that one movie had made us grow attached to these characters, when in fact HP movies gave us several stories to grow with. Even the creatures weren't that magical. One of the biggest disappointments was Jude Law as Dumbledore. He brought no personality to the character whatsoever. Literally Dumbledore in name only. Johnny Depp had a great deal of fun playing Grindlewald, but there were no onscreen characters for him to play against, so it just ended up being one big monologue. HP had the Voldemort story build slowly over 8 films. I thought when the expanded this trilogy to 5, we would get the same, but the whole point of this movie seems to be to set up future stories. The only real point is to get individuals to line up on one side or the other, and literally once that is done, the movie ends. This was a mistake, and JKK will lose fans if they pull this crap again,