There are some decent performances amongst the cast, which includes Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Kevin Guthrie (Dunkirk), Johnny Depp (not sure he's given a good performance since The Rum Diaries), Carmen Ejogo (True Detective III, Selma), Zoe Kravitz (Big Little Lies), Callum Turner (War and Peace), Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Katherine Waterston (Logan Lucky, Inherent Vice)... there's part of your problem. Too many characters. We didn't really know what was going on from the word go. J.K. Yawn had forgotten to tell a good story - magical animals in search of script.
Some of the design and special effects are impressive, and some of the monsters, but it's so CGI you begin to care less...
Photographed by Philippe Rousselot, designed by Stuart Craig, music by James Newton Howard, edited by Mark Day.
All this people with their wands out pointing at a fiery sky is getting a bit much... Also thought Nicolas Flamel looked stupid (particularly like a younger actor in make-up, in other words)... We spent the next hour listening to ourselves attempting to rap, and that was much more fun.
J.K.'s a good story-teller (think also of Strike) but something has gone badly wrong here and someone (Yates? Steve Kloves is still a producer?) should have told her.
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