Light weight comic book screen version

Rating: Null/10 (14 July 2005)

Fantastic Four is light weight in its character development. It's lightweight in its special effects. It's lightweight in its dialogue. It's lightweight in just about everything. Light-weight is not necessarily synonymous with poor quality. For one thing, light-weight wouldn't draw heavy criticism. Pity the professional critics dumping all over the absurdity of the science stuff, barking up the wrong tree. They may as well denounce Harry Pottery for the very valid argument that there is really no such thing as magic in the world. Fantastic Four is not even science fiction. Isaac Asimov is science fiction (but not "I Robot", I regret to report). Fantastic Four is comic book, period.
I know that this movie is a living demonstration of cliché and predictability. Every fibre in me cries out against enjoying it. It isn't even my favourite comic of group heroes. While we are on that, not even X-men is. I wish that one day they'll make one with Green Lantern, Flash, Hawk Man, Green Arrow, The Martian Manhunter, plus of course Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman.in short, the JLA or in long, Justice League of America. But that was a long, long time ago, before there was even a Vietnam War, let alone a Gulf War. But I digress.
Shamelessly, I enjoyed Fantastic Four. I enjoyed the simple story, the simple characters, the simple quips (despite having heard them a million times), the simple special effects. I didn't miss the swearing and sex, which I got plenty of in Sin City, another comic book movie but enjoyed on a very different plane. I enjoyed Fantastic Four simply for being what it is..light-weight.
Update, 2017: My dream of half-a-century came true! "Justice" has dawned!