Oh Stan Lee when will you learn?

Rating: 6/10 (12 July 2005)

It seems Stan Lee hasn't figured out that he has to find good writers before he makes his comics into a movie. As with The Hulk and, to a somewhat lesser extent, with both of the Spiderman movies, I left the theatre disappointed, but at the same time wanting more.
The movie itself was terrible, the writing was bad, the acting was bad, the plot (or almost lack there of) was bad... I could go on for a while, but I think I'll stop there.
Almost nothing happened the entire movie. It was as if the point of this movie wasn't to make a cool movie but rather lead up to a second one. It didn't seem like they cared if this movie was any good as long as it was good enough to make people want to see the second one. And I am sad too say, I want to see the second one. This was one big advertisement for Fantastic 4 2 (wow that looks weird).
Anyway, I don't want to bash the movie completely so I will leave my comments at "I was highly disappointed". However, I cannot say that all is lost as there is no way the second one will be worse, it can only get better. So things are looking up (only a little though).
In summary, I give this movie a 6 out of ten. This is based on my scale where a 5 is tolerable and a rating any lower is how badly you want the movie to end while watching it (4 being "I'm going to go to the washroom and hopefully it will be better or over when I get back" 3 being "ok time to wrap it up", 2 being oh god just finish the freakin' movie, 1 being "shoot me. shoot me now, right in the head, oh god, please shoot me".)
So I say, go see this movie if you intend on seeing the second one, but my recommendation is to rent it when it comes out.