Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016)

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
    D: David Yates                                                   (2016)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Colin Farrell,
    Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Dan Hedaya,
    Ron Perlman, Zoë Kravitz, Johnny Depp
A Hogwarts alumnus arrives in New York in 1926 with a suitcase full of strange creatures and bumps into a baker with an identical suitcase full of pastries and the suitcases get switched (of course) and the creatures get loose and start to run around the city and the local witches start running around trying to put them back or put them away and this is a prequel to the "Harry Potter" stories and the two ten-year-olds I watched it with were a lot more into it than I was which didn't surprise me really and I'm not even sure why the wizard with the suitcase full of creatures had come to New York in the first place but the kids knew and there are some cool special effects.