1. This is a LOT better than Cursed Child! I think I'll have to nose about into some research and see if Rowling had a bigger hand in writing this script than she did Cursed Child. Beasts does not have the plot holes or problems of breaking the rules of Rowling's magical world.
2. Love the 1920s setting!! Fun!
3. There are very few children in this movie, and only one of them has even any significance. Does this mean that the intended audience is adults? Or that Rowling did not worry about having adults be the main characters in a show for children?
Newt is childlike enough, shy and unlikely to look people in the eye. (That bothered me, incidentally. I kept wanting him to look at people instead of past them!) And, of course, there's no sex (a couple of kisses and one slightly sexual reference). Still, it's weird to have a Harry Potter story without kids in it.
4. It was very interesting seeing a story from this world without knowing the plot first, and knowing that it was MADE to be a movie, not just a book ADAPTED (usually poorly) into a movie. It will be interesting to read the script.
5. Rowling's distrust of government comes through in this tale again. Was it her idea or someone else's to make the corrupt government official look like Mitt Romney? I found that highly amusing. :D
6. There was no Easter egg at the end. :(
7. What happened to Modesty? We last see her hiding in a corner, and then..... BIG CLIMAX SCENE.... and we never find out what happens to her.
Unless, of course, her story continues in the next movie....... bump-bump-PAH!
8. Messages which were inserted into the film:
A) Don't trust politicians.
B) Beating kids is bad -- especially if they rebel and decide to get even.
C) Religious extremists are evil cloaked in a facade of self-righteousness.
9. I liked how the wizarding world in America in the 1920s had women in powerful positions, which certainly was not true of the real world at the time.
Overall, it's a good show. I will definitely buy the DVD when it comes out.