Not bad but not great

Rating: 4/10 (13 July 2005)

I have to agree with someone else who posted the board that this movie was not as good as X-men or Spider man but it wasn't as bad as the hulk, daredevil, punisher etc. The Good: First of all the good points of this movie is that the human torch and the thing were portrayed perfectly down to their comic versions. Human torch is cocky/funny(which is why he kinda gets along with spider-man in the comics) type. The Thing was also well portrayed down to the suit they used (why didn't they use that for the the hulk?). The Bad: The first person i'd have to comment on is mr. fantastic. Now the person who played as mr.fantastic did a good job as the character. In the comics mr.fantastic was more of a scientist than a fighter which is the problem. Mr.Fantastics power sucks period. It's not very cool, it's not very effective, and it doesn't have that "whoa" type of deal like looking at superman or spider man. Second person was invisible women. I have no problems with Jessica Alba at all, shes attractive and a pretty good actress. The problem is her age. Sue Storm is supposed to be older than her brother (human torch) but Alba looks younger than Johnny! I think the director or casting crew could have gotten someone more older and a little more well known (gwenth or someone else) but hey, invisible womens powers were pretty good and you can't beat alba stripping down to bra and panties The Ugly: The major problems of this film is first the forced love story and dialogue. The love story felt really artificial and planned, with no type of emotional attachment nor development. I don't think anyone cared that much about Mr. Fantastic getting with invisible women. Secondly is the use of powers. I know someone is probably asking "how can you fit all of those powers onto one screen though?" well take a good look at x-men and there's your answer. We don't really get a good feel of all of there powers until the end of the film which seems really rushed. It seems that the director/writer couldn't think of a intelligent way to get all of their powers to be "special" in one way or another to stop doom. Finally is Dr. Doom. Yeash. He did not seem very menacing and seemed to have no purpose at all at the end of the movie except blow stuff up. He was also supposed to be very intelligent, but man the actor who played him had horrible lines "sue lets not fight" "i'll get to you in a second" horrible. overall a good film, definite rental and possible buy but don't except to be knocked out like batman begins.