Fantastic Four (2005)
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 203
Fresh: 54 | Rotten: 149
Fantastic Four is a goofy, mediocre entry in the superhero genre.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 28
Fantastic Four is a goofy, mediocre entry in the superhero genre.
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Marvel's first family of comic superheroes takes the world by storm as the longest running comic book series in history comes to the big screen. Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, who can elongate his body; Susan Storm/Invisible Woman, who not only can become invisible at will but can render other objects invisible; Johnny Storm/Human Torch, who can shoot fire from his finger tips and bend flame; and Ben Grimm/The Thing, a hideously misshapen monster with superhuman strength, together battle the evil
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Ioan Gruffudd
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Chris Evans
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Michael Chiklis
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Kerry Washington
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Maria Menounos
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Aonika Laurent
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Jason Schombing
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Jason Diablo
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Paul Belsito
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Deejay Jackson
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All Critics (203) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (149) | DVD (44)
Marvel Comics continues to empty out its stable of superheroes with this entertaining tale.
Top CriticFantastic it most certainly ain't.
A garish mediocrity.
Before the inevitable and surprisingly anticlimactic battle with Doom, we are treated to two extreme-sports demonstrations, several training montages, [and] an ill-advised love triangle.
Bland performances throughout. And really, who wants to make Jessica Alba the invisible girl? What a bad idea. I want her to be visible at all times.
It exists largely to entertain and delight, which used to be precisely what summer blockbusters were engineered to do.
Fantastic Four is terribly miscast. It's poorly written, visually uninteresting, and worst of all, boring. The film drags considerably. There are huge gaps without any action and it brings the pacing to an unbearable crawl.
Fantastic Four is actually very true to its source material - often literally so - but generally misses the spirit entirely.
Some comics just shouldn't be turned in to movies...
Director Tim Story ("Barbershop") sets an uneven tempo for the embarrassingly clunky script by Michael France ("Hulk") and Mark Frost ("Storyville").
The film is made in the internet equivalent of capital letters and its simplistic morality stands out on the big screen more so than on the small page.
An opportunity squandered by Marvel, which really needs to watch its quality control more closely.
Four-play without any climax.
The film is affable enough, though nothing much seems to be at stake.
After the recent crop of enjoyable superhero movies, this is just an embarassment.
A better than average comic book effort.
Tim Story gives the Marvel comics superheroes the Barbershop treatment.
Shows how filmmaking through market research, screenwriting by committee, and over-dependence on moviemaking technology can result in huge, colourful, loud but totally vacuous and heartless movies.
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Not all comic-book films have to be as weighty and angst-filled as a graphic novel. Fantastic Four is neither fantastic nor incredible, but it's entertaining nonetheless.
Finally, a movie that explores what happens when a group of people who can't get along find themselves freakishly mutated by cosmic radiation!
...there is little sense of wonder or excitement in Fantastic Four. It is merely a middling contender among a surplus of superhero movies.
Aqu� lo que cuenta es tener una buena bolsa de palomitas y dejarse llevar por la nostalgia del cuarteto m�s famoso del mundo despu�s de Los Beatles. S�lo eso.
When the playboy, joke-around character is the best part of the film, you know you have problems.
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Thing with this film is everything moves so fast at first. One minute the Four are discussing this space cloud, next they're discussing it with Von Doom, then they're all up in space in this space station, then they get hit by the space cloud and then just as quickly they're all back on Earth. The beginning feels so rushed so they can get to the fun stuff and silly special effects, and boy is there plenty of that. Most of this film really feels like a setup for the inevitable sequel, half the film is basically the team getting to grips with their powers and messing around.
Its all a rip off if you ask me, most of the time we only get to see 'Grimm' and 'Johnny' arguing bickering and pranking each other, whilst 'Reed' tries to study their new powers. Alba as Sue Storm does literately nothing accept for flirt with Reed, regurgitate her new nudity/invisibility issue and look absolutely ridiculous with her fake blue contacts and fake blonde hair, she looks like a mutant from the X-Men. The real killer is the fact we don't actually see Doctor Doom anywhere until right at the very end! This film has no villain! its true, the first superhero flick I've seen with no actual antagonist. Then when we do finally get some Doom action its a blink and you'll miss it scenario plus it never feels like Doctor Doom, just the actor McMahon in a plastic mask (what's with the eyebrow makeup on that guy?).
The sole bit of action for the most part is a highway pile up on the Brooklyn Bridge which gives the team a chance to flex their new skills in complete CGI glory. I can't really moan about the CGI because its obvious from the outset that the film was gonna be heavy on it, but this doesn't entirely excuse how bad it looks. The only character that looks reasonable is the Human Torch, Mr Fantastic looks anything but fantastic...but his CGI effects sure do look plastic. The Invisible Woman just comes across as bland and completely uninteresting whilst The Thing is so very clearly a stretchy suit. I think its hard to translate this team onto the big screen though in all fairness, they have a more childish vibe about them, their outfits are hard to update...and basically they're just dull all round.
There is a very comical light-hearted feel to the film that borders on infantile at times. Now I can't say that's a bad thing because the film does adapt the comicbook atmosphere very well, what else would you expect with characters like this? But at times the film is just embarrassing to watch, there is some really cheesy ultra hammy dialog and gags, dumb visual gags...dare I say pratfall stuff and loads of quickfire quips and one liners. I mean yeah Johnny Storm is suppose to be a good looking cocky mouthy young astronaut but some of his scenes with The Thing are simply excruciating to watch. Does he really need to shout out 'flame on!' to turn into the Human Torch?
The whole film looks bad and highly fake, not much better than a TV series...hell the Roger Corman movie isn't far behind really. The performances are weak, there is no bad guy and virtually 90% of the film is about nothing more than origins and tomfoolery, literately padding for the sequel in a crafty money milking operation. On one hand they do admittedly capture the spirit of the comicbook genre with this guff but on the other hand it really is a typically terrible sanitised sterile Hollywood production.