Not so Fantastic, it makes me wanna move to Latveria.

Rating: 3/10 (29 August 2007)

I've never been a huge fan of the FF, but there were at least two things I liked in the Comic-Book, and the movie ruined them both.
First thing I liked was the excessive graphic imagination that Jack Kirby showed in the comic, with its incredible and gigantic creatures (year, Galactus !) from space or its amazing and futuristic weapons (wooh : the supreme Annihilator !). And in my opinion, the movie is way to shy on that matter. OK, some things are missing to avoid a ridiculous transcription of the comic, but here, there's almost nothing left. No creativity, no originality : everything is small, predictable, and empty. OK, Johnny Storm gets the powers of a super-Skrull, but hey, it's not The Watcher ! And what about the Surfer ? If he's impressive in the trailer (best scene of the movie, of course) he's inexistent in the movie - and the same goes for Doom, and, well, every single character.
The second thing that the movie misses is the spirit of the Fantastic Four. The interrogations of Red Richard and Jane to leave the group in order to raise a normal family could have been interesting if it wasn't absolutely a betrayal of the comic. The Fantastics ARE a family, and they're trying to act like one with their powers : that's the all point of the comic : how to deal with your family and use your own abilities. There's no point for them to wonder how to become normal, in order to have a family ! Anyway, the movie doesn't even develops that thematic, and stay a conventional bad TV movie made for kids, with no characters, and visually very poor.