Its a comic book movie

Rating: Null/10 (15 June 2010)

Kids read comic books, some of them grow and keep reading comic books. They bring some things from their child hood and try to pretend they are adult media.
In recent years the gritty reboots of comic book franchises has wowed the over 25 year old fans...but these are not really true to the original media (and I love some of these movies so I am not complaining, but often they are failures).
The fantastic 4 comic books have almost no gritty dark side, it is a camp story and the movie reflects the reality of the movie.
Unlike Batman, the fantastic 4 does not and can not exist in the real world. They are comic book superheroes who do spend a little time coping with the fact they are public figures and known (none of this rubbish hiding behind masks). They are also scientists, mr Fantastic strength and power is not physical, but in his head, his intelligence.
So what you have a smart intelligent story about intelligent normal people (slid over the extreme a little bit) told in a comic book style of story telling.
Many so called "fans" of comic books are not actually open to the comic book media and I am often surprised by people panning well made comic book movies that are true to the original medium For Frank Miller Fans....he does write comic books, he writes movies in the comic book format, which is why being true to his comic books work so well.
Anyway, this is a good movie aimed at kids, a little light on the action, focusing a little bit too much on the process of becoming a public super hero and the final fight is not dramatic enough, but still it is not a bad movie.