The film is immaculately cast, and the chemistry between its four heroes holds your eye. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has all the makings of a huge family blockbuster, but all the bloated traps of those, too.
Fantastic Beasts is a good movie, and offers a fun and inventive return to Rowling's wizarding world, but it could have been a better movie if didn't waste so much time setting up a new franchise. The “Potter” movies were so well conceived that they contain endless possibilities for more entries, and “Fantastic Beasts” takes the bait right on cue, not repeating a formula so much as enriching it with a spellbinding polish.
