This was a big disappointment

Rating: 2/10 (25 September 2006)

I'll go see most superhero movies, and based on their content, I shouldn't have high expectations. But with movies like Spider-man, Batman Begins, and the X-men movies, it has been shown that superhero movies can be more than just entertaining movies, but great films. I suppose my expectations were too high, but this movie was crummy. I'm not too familiar with the Fantastic Four lore, but I know it's probably not supposed to be as dark as Batman or X-men, but neither is Spider-man. I thought there was no depth to the characters, didn't really believe they were superheroes and even the villain, Dr. Doom was reduced to something lame, though I thought that casting Julian McMahon was a good call. Everything about the Thing was a big joke and when they tried to go for something remotely sympathetic towards his character, Johnny Storm would be a complete a-hole and make some joke. Perhaps that is how the characters are in the comic, but if that's the case, then even the comic misses the mark when dealing with such a tragic figure as the Thing. The guy gets turned into a freakin orange rock, you'd figure his friend would have some kind of sympathy. And then the whole thing with them trying to undo their powers, it was like, what's the point. While I'm sure that is a plausible thing to occur, it doesn't really make a good superhero movie. We'll see how FF2 fairs, but I'm not keeping my hopes up.