I'm seriously concerned about the moral compass of the film. Brilliant spectacle, of course, but the creeping sense of unease from the start of the plot didn't go anywhere for me - limited sense of peril, threats to the protagonist's life which didn't go anywhere, the macguffin is treated as a holiday machine with a byline in unthreatening solitary confinement. So it's kind of a children's film.
Here's the serious problem. The outcome is that the supposed villain is defeated because he is held by his father to a contract allowing him to be treated as a chattel slave. A contract signed in infancy. So this is a magic world just as corrupt and morally bankrupt as anything in Harry Potter. Except where there's a hope for reform in J K Rowling's world, this one is not only irredeemable but we end up with a nastier villain in charge, swell happy music and roll credits.
Here's the serious problem. The outcome is that the supposed villain is defeated because he is held by his father to a contract allowing him to be treated as a chattel slave. A contract signed in infancy. So this is a magic world just as corrupt and morally bankrupt as anything in Harry Potter. Except where there's a hope for reform in J K Rowling's world, this one is not only irredeemable but we end up with a nastier villain in charge, swell happy music and roll credits.