If you thought you'd seen amazing "special effects".... think again!

Rating: 8/10 (28 October 2005)

We took our 9 year old niece to see this film at the Saturday morning matinée, assuming it would be just another "action" movie. Prepared to put up with a poor copy of a Marvel Comic, we were more than pleased to find that it appealed just as much to the adult viewers as the kids. There was a certain amount of "violence", but I put that in quotation marks because there was absolutely no blood and gore. The special effects, such as the super cool Torch igniting his thumb like a cigarette lighter and Mr Fantastic sliding his rubber arm underneath a door to open it from the other side, not to mention the emotions (happy and sad) on The Thing's stony face, were exceptional. There was plenty of humour (some lost on the kids) and the story line (which had more substance than your average "Van Damm" movie), was credible.