My husband and I watched this movie with our 8-year-old and our 10-year-old. So many of the reviews of this movie here seem very conservative in their age recommendations. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails. But themes and messages include curiosity, compassion, and courage, and the main characters are all strong role models. Unlike the original Harry Potter movies, the main characters here are all adults, and the story is much more of a grown-up suspense/thriller than a kid-centric adventure. One scene takes place in a speakeasy, where adult characters order drinks, and there's a bit of light romance between couples that ends in goodbye kisses, longing looks, and brief caresses. A character's mother beats him with a belt (welts, cuts are shown on his hands). Wizards engage in wand battles, two wizards are sentenced to death and nearly killed, and an out-of-control form of magic nearly destroys whole swaths of Manhattan.
There's also mass destruction, although the property destroyed is magically fixed, and the minds of the No-Maj ("no magic") folks are always erased. As per usual in the Potter saga, you can expect plenty of fantasy violence, some of which ends in deaths (a couple are pretty gruesome). Rowling's original story, it takes place in 1920s New York City and follows Newt Scamander ( Eddie Redmayne), a magizoologist and author of a Hogwarts textbook that catalogs magical creatures. Parents need to know that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a prequel to the Harry Potter movies.
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