A Good Saturday Matinée Movie

Rating: 6/10 (9 July 2005)

This was a good time at the movies. I wished the exciting bits could have been more exciting, but I have even less imagination than the screen writers, so I don't know how. All the Fantastic Four characters were well written, but developing four superheroes and a villain must be technically demanding. I wished for more from each of them, especially, Jessica Alba. This is the second time that she played a character who could have been naked and was not. That gripes my ass. What gripes it even more is gratuitous negritude, apparently, Hollywood's compulsory theme. Movies of this era will seem deformed, ridiculous, and antiquated. I want the people of the future to know that were those of us here in the past who realized that the trend was desperate and stupid. We contained our exasperation with idiots in charge as best we could.