t's amazing the amount of continuity errors, unsatisfactory explanations and free scenes that try to generate laughter and emotion without success

Rating: 6/10 (18 April 2020)

Finally hitting theaters one of the groups most beloved heroes in the Marvel Universe through the dissemination of comic book adaptations that hit the screens in the early and mid-2000s. After the successful X-Men (2000) and X-Men 2 (2003) director Bryan Singer, Spider-Man (2002) and Spider-Man 2 (2004) Sam Raimi, criticized the film Hulk (2003) of Ang Lee and fiascos Elektra (2005) and Daredevil (2003) - is regarded as the "first family" superhero earn their live-action version - I say family because two of the members are brothers and two marry, and have a which is extremely close to the family.
The characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby are led to this new entertainment platform by director Tim Story and maybe that was a grave error of producers. Story before commanding that this was his first major film, had only directed films of little relevance as Barbershop, The Firing Squad and One of Us Tripped, but he was called for this movie for his work in another best-known film, the bad Taxi (2004), starring Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon and Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen. Taxi has proved to be a film with many flaws, but still Story earned this new opportunity with a popular movie at hand and where he could shut up the critics, but unfortunately it does not. Fantastic to serve as a fun movie, but it has too many misconceptions and mistakes that end up hurting too grotesque credibility and magnificence of the work.
The brilliant but virtually bankrupt, Reed Richards, just asking for the help of billionaire and former college classmate, Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon), so that it finances in companies Von Doom a trip to space where you can study better human DNA and where they would be found cures and medical advances for humankind in various segments. Victor accepts in exchange for having 75% of profits from discoveries and Reed, without much alternative, eventually accepts knowing that could help many people with their discoveries of the trip. Along with him, his best friend Ben Grimm, go on the trip to Reed's ex-girlfriend, Sue Storm, who has worked for two years for Victor - Johnny Storm, Sue's brother - besides himself Victor. During the space expedition, an accident reaches the ship, causing its crew undergo changes in your body and gain special powers becoming the "Fantastic Four." Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), the leader of the group, replaced by the ability to stretch his body made rubber is known as Mr. Fantastic. Sue Storm gains powers that allow her to turn invisible and create force fields, becoming the Invisible Woman. Johnny (Chris Evans), can increase the heat of your body and fly at tremendous speed, and the Human Torch, and Ben (Michael Chiklis) has his body turned to stone and gains a superhuman strength, turning the "Thing. Upon returning to Earth soon after the accident the new powers begin to be perceived and exploited, causing all have to adapt to them and the new life they had to lead, how to get used to the status of celebrities who bring them powers. In parallel, the quartet did not think anyone else that was on board also acquired powers with radiation. Victor, who became the Dr. Fate, tries to deal with problems in companies related to disaster mission and ends up realizing new powers, he can generate a powerful electric charge.
The screenplay by Mark Frost and Michael France seeks to bring the comic to the emergence of a faithful group of heroes (creation of uniform exposure to cosmic waves, personality of heroes, their being known heroes and not hide behind masks as Most other heroes etc.), and this is not the main problem of the film, which has the continuity errors, and lack of expendable scenes twists and a powerful enemy, some of its main deficiencies. The roadmap seeks to give equal space to the entire group creating dramatic arches misguided and without strength, jokes that do not always work and excessive action scenes. But it is clear simplicity and little development of the story, and in the end the only purpose was to introduce you to the heroes and not give them an enemy already impressive, and it is a serious mistake because Dr. Doom is the main opponent of the quartet .
It's amazing the amount of continuity errors, unsatisfactory explanations and free scenes that try to generate laughter and emotion without success. For example: Reeds, seeking to bring his friend Ben back to normal appearance, creates a machine capable of recreating the cosmic storm that hit in your home lab. If Reed knew what was in the storm, why not recreated before? What basis he had to recreate it in the lab? Because he knew that it was composed? Why go to space and risk his life if he knew how to do it? Why the "Thing" needed more power on the machine to reverse his condition, but to return to the "thing" it just came on the machine alone without anyone to help you get in and close the doors on the outside, and on up out of there again transformed as the "Thing". And now, knowing that he could return to normal when he wanted, why he would want to keep as the Thing? Just trying to pass a moral lesson that we should accept our fate? Not really convinced that excuse.
Other examples: Why Ben's wife appears on the scene on the bridge where the new superheroes use their powers and are applauded by the people? Just trying to provoke an emotional scene tears poorly prepared. Not to mention the fact that in the same scene, Sue is invisible to get past the guards, but soon after the other heroes who were with her were also able to move normally even without being invisible. All this to show Jessica Alba bra and panties and trying to provoke laughter with the embarrassing situation. Is also funny to see the justification for the emergence of the powers of Dr. Doom, he was also struck by cosmic radiation. Only the specific characters were the giant ship at the time of the accident, with no crew.
Quartet, Mr. Fantastic, even though the group leader and have a brilliant mind, is arguably the most boring character of all and uses her powers on very few occasions. Ioan Gruffudd is not a bad actor, but his character is only intended to cause a few laughs with his skills, contributing little to "save the world". Jessica Alba already has a role a little better and try to be responsible for the long drama in your scenes with Gruffudd, but the story is so simple, but the tension between them gets too dragged and bored. To stand out even if we have the beauty of Jessica Alba, who glued or clothes bra and panties on the bridge, and pleases the audience production. The protagonists, the best are the "Thing" Michael Chiklis, that appeals to your way threatening, but a good heart - already "Human Torch" Chris Evans is also very interesting. For being a womanizer, irresponsible and have an accurate census of humor, he is what most stands out like the fame acquired and see in this great chance to get more women and be admired. Beside the "thing", he stars good times during the plot. Already the villain Dr. Doom, played by Julian McMahon is entirely one-sided. Although it contains the main features of comics your character, such as excessive pride, being vain and a liar, traitor and ruthless - McMahon cannot provoke empathy and make the viewer feel involved and threatened.
Good even in this adaptation, one cannot but mention the makeup, especially the character "The Thing" that preserved the facial expressions help in the performance of the actor - and the special effects are excellent, whether filming mixing CGI with real scenarios, it is when dealing with particles: invisibility, fire, water, ice, etc.. Popcorn and a movie that entertains, this is fact. Perhaps at first appear not noticed any defects, and us more delighted with the effects, but on the film, eventually overcome the defects of the qualities. Fantastic Four is a movie for fun, and it will not be in the imagination of unforgettable films of superheroes.