serviceable superhero flick

Rating: 6/10 (27 December 2006)

I was never a big comic book kid; I would read them but usually it was that one or that one and I never had much allegiance to any particular hero. But I do recall a fondness for the Fantastic Four, I think mainly because I related to the angst-ridden Thing, being angst-ridden myself.
I didn't find the movie as intriguing as I remember the comic books being, but it does a decent job in a rather generic fashion. It keeps moving, the story makes sense and it has some fun stuff in it. I would rank it above Spider-Man, which I thought was overrated, but below Spider-Man 2 or the first two X-men movies.
I almost always enjoy superhero movies, so I enjoyed it, but it's not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination.