A good (not great) addition to my Marvel movie collection.

Rating: 7/10 (30 January 2014)

I am a fan of all superhero movies in general, of course there are a handful of them that I cannot be a fan of due to extreme poor quality. I'm happy to say that contrary to popular opinion, Fantastic Four is not one of those movies. It is a really good movie in its own way, perhaps it seems poor compared to Marvel's greats such as X-Men, Spider-Man 2 or The Avengers.
For one thing, casting is good to great for the most part. I don't think a better Human Torch could've been chosen than Chris Evans, Chicklis is lovable and adorable but still tough in a goofy way just like The Thing is supposed to be. Gruffud and Alba are not great but decent adaptations of the comic characters. Julian McMahon is a great character, but he's NOT Doom. He is an interesting and cool character but he's nothing like the source material, but he's really the only instance of that in this movie.
I liked the story, simple but sufficient. It's basically all five are exposed to radiation in space, which gives them all odd abilities. But then it shows all five of them progress as characters, they all have to deal with what they've become and choose what to use it for.
Action is also great, for its time anyways. The climax was imaginative, interesting, and just really creative I loved it.
In closing, yes perhaps the film was overly cheesy but that's how the original comic book characters were too. This movie is not great, but it is very good and not half as bad as it's made out to be. A heck of a lot better than the 2007 crap fest, which was a fun crap fest but still a crap fest.