Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four
PG-13 | 08 July 2005 (USA)
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During a space voyage, four scientists are altered by cosmic rays: Reed Richards gains the ability to stretch his body; Sue Storm can become invisible; Johnny Storm controls fire; and Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong … thing. Together, these "Fantastic Four" must now thwart the evil plans of Dr. Doom and save the world from certain destruction.

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GazerRise

Fantastic!

Kailansorac

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

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InformationRap

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Jenni Devyn

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Ilikehorrormovies

This movie is very enjoyable like it don't need a dark tone and Dr.Doom looks better. I'd wish I watch the 90s one even though it didn't age well but still I want to. At least the characters are likable then Fant4stic because the characters in the movie are lifeless while in this film there not boring. I know the film is not the best but I have a good time with it

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generationofswine

At least it is better than the reboot.Mr. Fantastic is distant like he is in the source material, but not as distasteful. You sort of get the impression that he's kind of a cold-hearted jerk in the comics, refusing to help people and pushing them to make deals with Doom because he doesn't see the time sacrifice as a benefit to himself and his research.In the movie, he's a lot nicer.Susan Storm, well, she's kind of just eye-candy in the movie isn't she? An excuse to see Jessica Alba almost naked and because of that, they lacked any real development for her. It hurt the film.Johnny and Ben are by far the best and truest to the comics, but then they are also the most entertaining, the saviors of what would otherwise be a very boring film.Sure it was an introduction, but one that was overly bland with only small parts that were really entertaining.

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nicholls_les

In my humble opinion this is one of the best Marvel movies I have seen. It just seems to capture the Fantastic Four exactly how I remember them from the comics.All the main characters Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards, Chris Evans as Johnny Storm are pretty much perfect. Jessica Alba as Sue Storm is brilliant and Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm stands out as just about the perfect 'Thing'.The only downside for me was Victor Von Doom who just wasn't evil enough and missed what the comics showed him to be.However I thought the movie was great with some pretty impressive special effects.

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alex wolfman

Next to the massive popular The Avengers, The Fantastic Four has the most potential as a Marvel film adaptation. You have an interesting duo as lead characters that can bring so much depth in different ways. They are superheroes that don't hide their identify and live as normal beings. Let's not also forgot the Roger Corman produced a very low budget Fantastic Four film that never got a released in 1994. When first mainstream Fantastic Four was released in 2005 from director Tim Story, we were long overdue for it and when there were two excellent Spider-Man films from Sami Raimi before that, Fantastic Four was suppose to be really something. Well it works perfectly as a popcorn film but you really want something better as a superhero film when you consider that it is the Fantastic Four and the source material it comes from.After an attack with radiation on a space mission, four astronauts and Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahorn) all get some type of superhero powers. The four astronauts who later together create a team later called Fantastic Four. The team who's villain later is Victor Von Doom himself and who wants revenge.Due to the plot, this is a film that has places a high value on casting as the team of characters that has to work together through most scenes. The very attractive Jessica Alba plays invisible woman Sue Storm; an actress who's acting has never been that sharp and this is really some questionable casting. Chris Evans plays Johnny Storm/Human Torch; a character who can create fire which kind of brings you back to the Stephen King adaption Firestarter and character that is so hard to like due to his hotshot attitude. Villain Victor Von Doom is only in character in the last act and actor Julian McMahorn makes the character very cheesy and not at all menacing. Besides the fact that he looks very cheap, the only superhero you can fully like is The Thing/Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis) who you feel a lot of sympathy for due to having issues with his appearance and it is tough to watch his divorce with his wife Debbie (Lauire Holden). The divorce part of the plot could have been covered much more and it really is a question mark as to why it only had two scenes to it.We can also say this film falls due to a bad script. The plot has no ideas in the middle and for people wanting action, well don't expect a lot of that. Even when you get action, it's lot of running around without any type direction, especially a particular bridge scene. The writing by Mark Frost and Michael France is either a lot of garbled talk that does makes for a confusing first act or that it is writing with a lot one-liners that takes a direction like it was made to be comedy. The special effects are rushed and are so very far off from what we see in superhero films of today. The Fantastic Four has some ideas no doubt but in the end it is a mess that get lost with many flaws.The Fantastic Four is a very hard film to sit through. This movie is very different from the superhero films of today which makes it both odd and refreshing. A below average and very goofy affair.

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