fantastic bore

Rating: 5/10 (9 December 2005)

this film did a fairly good job of describing the origins of the fantastic four. but i say that without ever having read any of the comics. there was some pathos with the Thing when his fiancée rejected him. he's the same guy as he always was, he claims. so what if he only has four fingers and looks like he's plastered in cookie dough? the flaming guy, the Human Torch, was fun to watch. good thing he had no nerve endings. good skier though. Elastic Man was benign enough and fairly non-descript. the big surprise here for me was Invisible Girl. i didn't know that Jessica Alba could put in such a horrible performance. she acted more like a junior exec trying to plan an office party than someone undergoing an amazing transformation. she's very pretty, but in this film it's too bad she wasn't invisible the entire time. i watched this film twice trying to give it the benefit of the doubt. if the producers and Tim Story were merely trying to lay the ground work for a sequel, fine. but if the ground work has a shaky foundation i'm not sure a lot of people would go rushing in to the building. i'm sure people of all ages enjoyed this movie but if i were pressed i'd say the biggest demographic are 10-14yr old boys. nothing wrong with that i guess.