40 years for this?!!!

Rating: 6/10 (16 March 2006)

As of late, comic book movies have been really good. "Batman Begins" was spectacular. "Spider-man 1 & 2" were really good. Even "The Punisher" was pretty decent and it's not even one of my favorites. Marvel's comic book franchises have all turned out pretty well on the big screen. "Fantasic Four" on the other hand was pretty damn disappointing. Everything about this movie was wrong. The actors were all miss-cast (with the exception Michal Chiklis as The Thing). Jessica Alba is as hot as ever, but this part was not for her. The story was lame, uninspiring and unfaithful to the original source material. The plot is so terribly B-movie and the cheesy love triangle....what the hell were they thinking? The directorial effort here is amateurish at best. The action...what action? Throughout its entire 100 minutes, I counted 2 lame action scenes: the one on the bridge and the mediocre finale. The special effects were terrible. I could have done better on my home computer. The Fantastic Four were Marvel's first team of superheroes (debuting over 40 years ago). Sadly, they also star in Marvel's first big screen disappointment.