A light simple fun and entertaining popcorn movie

Rating: 7/10 (10 July 2005)

It has concerned me greatly to see how many accredited and professional critics have reviewed this movie with so much harsh and negative words. When I went to see this movie, thinking that it would be a weak entry or worse a poor movie, I was surprised to find out how wrong the critics were. It was as if Hollywood had marked this movie for death and sent our the word, "destroy this movie". The reviews have been unrealistic and uncalled for.
Now is this movie perfect, no. Is it a bob or a bad movie, no. I would compare it to first, the first X-Men movie. It too was simple in plot, had a modest pace and a lighter less complex approach to characters. It had a good final showdown with the apparent bad guy. It was a short film compared to the current lengths. It also compares to the first Spider-Man film in that it was lighter in tone than say films such as Batman Begins and X-Men II.
Fantastic Four never takes itself too seriously, but does stay on a moderate track for a family film as drama goes. It will please adults that are not bent on dark twisted character driven plot lines. After all this is a normal set of characters that did not have their uncle murdered or there wife and children wiped out by some villain. They were changed into there super powered state by mere chance. They are now normal people coping with super powers and public stardom. Most of the movie moves from one stage to the next setting up mild drama and humor, moving the plot towards the finally.
So far I have observed, from the so called true professional critics in Hollywood, that most of the poor reviews, some of which are bold attempts to trash a film that is far from as bad as they hope people will think it is, are personally or Hollywood motivated.
You don't have to take my word for it. This was a fun entertaining family film (goodness forbid that we have a fun entertaining family film). It works well from that point of view. Just go see this after you read the reviews, say from a review service that collects all the syndicated reviews for movies. Then sit down, relax, get that pop corn out and watch a fun and entertaining movie that does not require you to see a shrink after you are done. I promise you, this will be a nice change that you will enjoy. You will say, that was not what the reviews said it would be, that was fun. What was their problem?
Don't be fooled by the critics. They are too full of their own self importance on this one.