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RE: Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
What's painfully clear is that what @thatanimesnob was expecting was a HP prequil, and when he didn't get that he assumed that an alternative wasn't possible. Fantastic Beasts is set in the Potter world and the themes are the same, but it was deliberately meant to have a different feel, different characters and an un-related plot. It's not the mundane copy-paste that the Star Wars franchise has started pumping out to milk their followers.
You missed the part where he explains that it fails as a standalone movie too. Having different characters and un-related plot means nothing if the whole thing is badly written, be it a prequel or not.
Lol, but it wasn't a stand alone... it's part of a series, just no the HP series. That's why there's a second one coming out. Also, it wasn't badly written. No matter how much you want to bitch and moan about it, that's not really an accusation you can make.