Truly Fantastic... Mostly

Rating: 7/10 (15 July 2005)

This was a truly fun movie. "The Fantastic Four" is a comic about a family coping with strange powers and fighting the evil monsters and other wacky phenomena that endanger the lives of people on Earth, This movie understood the characters, it understood how they react with each other and with strife. While the movie was one long origin story and nothing more, it did set up for the surely to be fantastic sequel. I give this movie a 7 because it was enjoyable and fun, because it held true to the comic (which I grew up on and still avidly read today), and because it could have been better. 9 and 10 ratings I hold for movies like "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" and "The Seventh Seal" (respectively). I preivously said I hated this movie, but I've now learned never to judge so quickly. The sequel will be so great it may be the best MARVEL movie, but right now that is reserved for "Hulk".
And yes, the MPAA has a thing about ratings, not quite understanding what is really appropriate for 13 year olds, and this movie SHOULD have been PG to be a really good movie, but overall it seems the PG-13 movie was based mostly on the violence, which wasn't that bad. "Doctor Who" is a children's show, and to some people it's worse than this movie.
And so, "Fantastic 4" is true to its comic "The Fantastic Four" (I wish it had "The" in the title), and is a fun movie, and don't come in expecting a serious movie like Hulk or X-Men, this movie is supposed to be fun. FF 4-EVER!