Could have been decent, but for Dr. Doom.

Rating: 3/10 (31 July 2005)

This could have been a decent movie. The Fantastic Four themselves were not too bad at all. However, the actual story was rather poor particularly because of the weakness of the Dr. Doom character. He was one dimensional and just plain annoying. He had none of the characteristics of the comic book character (that made the character interesting) and the costume was just AWFUL. Comic book costumes seldom translate to live-action without looking just ludicrous, and Doom's is definitely no exception.
Here's another comment, the fact that the Thing's love interest just happens to be black would be sad if it wasn't such a common thing for white Hollywood. God forbid they let the freakish monster have a white romantic interest. Hell, if the character actually was black in the comics, it might be some excuse, but nope. Why does it have to be a black woman who gets hooked up to the ugly freak monster? Duh, because this is Hollywood and it's still racist. Since there weren't any major characters who were a minority, they just had to cram one in. For shame.
Overall, if they put the Four heroes in a different movie written by someone with some competence, this movie could have been quite good. Like if they focused on sciency stuff and character development instead of brainless super hero action sequences. Oh yeah, and the plot was so predictable and straight forward that I was bored with it pretty early on. Mr. Fantastic should have stretched his brain to a huge size so that he could conceive of a more interesting way of super-heroing.