The basic story here, which is admittedly grim, is that a powerful wizard is planning a rebellion in which they will take over the non-wizarding world. We muggles would be at risk, and our hero Dumbledore is staying out of it, at least for now.
There are some heavy hitting actors on board, with Johnny Depp playing the bad guy with ease. He actually sounds a lot like our current leader, whereby the concerns sound kind of reasonable on the surface but scratch just a little and you see the fascism, the lack of empathy, and the megalomania. Dumbledore is Judd Law, played with an appropriate balance of humor and gravitas. Eddy Redmayne is back as the slightly twitchy but lovable Newt Salander, master of magical beasts, and the man who is the key to the solution in the end.
One of the gripes is that there is just too much information crammed into one film--well, that is JK Rowling all over. Since the fourth Harry Potter book, it has been clear that editors fear cutting her work, and so we are left with these large rambling works. Such is this. I myself enjoy that over done story line.
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