What a great surprise

Rating: 7/10 (29 July 2005)

Not really wanting to see this film as I had heard nothing but bad things about it and already having a lot of my childhood faves destroyed by the Hollywood grinding machine I sat down to watch with every intension of hating it. But to my confession I have to emit that this is a really good fun summer movie worthy everybody viewing and respect. It's got it's down point sure, but I don't want to go into that just yet as I also don't want to give and of the plot away (well what there is of a plot anyway. The best surprise was how each of the actors playing the Fantastic Four really tried there hardest to nail there charters (even with the not so good adjusted back story) Michael Chiklis standing out as The Thing Ben Grim. He just seem to get the guy an example being that he would standing up for the geeky Reed Richards one minute and then be bullying him the next. And I couldn't help but tingle when he used his catch phase (It's clobbering Time). The only charter that was sort of Pete Tong wrong was Dr Doom. For starter's he was American (If you read the comic book you'll that thats just wrong) and his origin was changed. He seemed to go kind of nuts for no real reason and I don't no what he hoped to gain by trying to kill the F4 team. Dr Doom little subplot was lifed straight from spider made (Man looses his company control from the Board of directors, Man kills the Board). I'm going to try and make the few bad point short and sweet. The Effect were pretty thin (No pun intended) When reed stretched his body just has cheep as chips CGI written all over it. And there seem to be big chunks missing from the plot (How did the get back from the mission in space let alone to Quarantine and didn't Dr Doom get stuck in there as well). Enough of downers I'd like to finish on a positive note. Plus point of this film is it's got some good witty humour lifted from the comic book and the main characters interact just like in the book. Everyone seem's to picking on Reed even though he's the leader of the team and on top of that Jonny gives a lot of stick to Ben. Again this ain't the greatest of comic book adaptations nor is it dark like Batman or charter driven like Spider-man and Hulk. But It is Fun, sometimes exciting, Funny, sexy in place's and all round summer fun that even none F4 fans can enjoy. I was determined that I would hate it but I will hold my hand up and say that I was wrong to think so.