flawed but fun

Rating: 7/10 (28 June 2006)

It's an origins story so the good vs evil battle takes second place to watching the team develop from ordinary people into superheroes. Watching them get through their conflicts and deal with each other's personality quirks as they gel into the Fantastic Four is fun and more interesting than if the movie had been ONLY action, action, and more action. It's not perfect. The screenwriters didn't make Jessica Alba into a convincing scientist and they didn't make the development of the bad guy from ordinary jerk into evil monster all that convincing either (I don't blame the actors for these flaws). The acting and writing for The Thing is especially compelling. The movie does what it sets out to do (I don't expect a superhero movie to be a life-changing experience) and is enjoyable with a few flaws so it gets a 7 rating - the most common so far for this movie.