Long-time fan snubbed by lack of content

Rating: 6/10 (6 June 2006)

Just as spider-man 2 had too much soap-opera elements throughout it. FF disappoints in its lack of development. It felt like you would expect another hour of action after familiarizing yourself with the cast. What's the point of introducing Alicia (Ben Grimm's blind girlfriend) if you're not going the sculptures that she works on? Including Doc Doom in the FFs origin was a majorly bland movie short-cut. The character development was lopsided at best. You didn't know if you'd see action in the next few minutes or some boring blah-blah by the so-so cast. Speaking of cast, the human torch, the thing and RR were well chosen but the script they had to deal with was so terrible and their acting skills so weak (bar the torch) that I found myself groaning throughout a quarter of the movie. I don't know what Stan Lee thought of the movie but other than the *superb* costumes and special FX I'm a little bummed out by this movie
It felt like this movie was a plug for Jessica Alba's budding (I mean it lit'ly) career. It would have been the perfect moment to reintroduce Sue Storm's beehive blond haircut in the movie. Woulda started a new fad, y'know.