Good Action Film That You Can Take The Whole Family To!

Rating: 8/10 (11 July 2005)

The Fantastic Four was lots of fun and I would consider it a family oriented film. The film makers were able to capture the same fun and family values that the original Marvel Comics Group achieved with the comic book (Get it through your head now; The Fantastic Four are a group that centers on Family Values. Reed Richards is the Father, Sue Richards is the Mother and Ben Grim plays older Brother to Johnny Storm's Rebel-Without-A-Cause attitude). As a person who grew up during the "Golden Age of Marvel," I'm really dating myself here; I really appreciated how well the characters were depicted by the actors and the special effects that supported them. As their first real success comic book, and the team who introduced Spider-Man (See Spider-Man #1), the Fantastic Four were a foundation that Built the Marvel Empire.
Michael Chiklis was perfect as the Thing! He'll have you laughing all the way through the film. Chris Evans was a great Johnny StormA bit over the top, but that's how the human torch was/is.
If I had a problem with the film that problem was with the role of Jessica Alba's Sue Storm/Richards and Ioan Gruffudd's Reed Richards. Reed Richards (the successful Fatherly-Scientist we loved in the comic book)becomes Reed Richards the Geek who relied on others for his success??? Sue Storm (the Motherly-Type and pearl of the team) becomes the successful business woman with an attitude more like that of Jennifer Garner's Elektrareally made no sense to me. I guess these characters were written this way to make them more up with the times??? Who knows?? It does not matter, the FF was lots of fun and I can't wait for another film. Maybe we'll get a team-up with The Human Torch and Spider-Man (the original best friends and the foundation of Marvel Team-up) or just bring on the In-Humans or better yet Impy! Great job!!!!