Characters don't work

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 2005)

Having just witnessed Fantastic Four, i can tell you that some of my expectations had been met whilst others had failed as I knew they would. The story stays true to the comic yet modernises it just enough for it to work, and the film as a whole isn't bad, yet the major flaw is characters. When I first saw who would be playing the fantastic four, I cant pretend I didn't have my doubts, especially with 'The Thing' but he was the only believable character, Micheal Chiklis plays not only a perfect Ben Grim but a lovable and witty 'Thing' even my other weary resitance 'Julian Mc Mahon' performed well and showed us a side of Victor Von Doom (see the film) we had rarely ever seen even in the comics. Yet My favourite character was turned into a complete joke, where 'The Human Torch' is funny, they just ripped the ass out of him until everything he said came out as a joke, Mr.Fantastic wasn't that bad, not at all, but when faced with a love interest who is far too young or inexperienced to fully play Susan Storm, you can see where problems would arise. Jessica Alba is a wonderful actress, if given the right part, and brother, she was sold up the river for this part, she spends half the film moping over lost love with Reed and then of course strips to her underwear for comic effect, she cannot play such a smart woman, when she comes across as another dumb blonde and as for her relation with her brother, who i might add is the same age as her in real life, well when she tells him off, it is as if she is sucking up to a teacher, not setting an example, so movie wasn't as bad as I expected, but Alba sucked.