My Favorite Non-Favorite Superhero movie.

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2018)

I have only a few favorite superhero movies that I would give perfect 10s. Among these are (in no order): The Dark Knight, Batman and Robin(as a guilty pleasure), Superman Returns, and the first 2 Spider Man movies with Tobey Maguire.
In fact, for the same reasons as Roger Ebert, Spider Man 2 is my favorite superhero movie, and personally one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time.(See his review online.)
To summarize my review, SM2 is not all special effects, it tells a great story, too. Plus, it imagines quite truthfully how a regular teen with super powers and a normal life.
Fantastic 4 tells an interesting story to me. It follows 4 scientists who are hit by a star storm that gives them special powers: stretching, bursting into flames, turning invisible, and basically being a rock monster. They then have to learn how to live with their new powers in an ordinary world.
Of all the 4 heroes, my favorite is The Thing. I want to see a superhero movie that is just about him! He's the rock monster, and while the others can go back to regular human beings-he's stuck being a rock formation! Many fear him for this, and he has to prove that he's a good guy, too.
I gave this a 9 because of 2 things:
1. The first 12 minutes is slow and just the build up. It's not something to remove, but it could have sped up a little.
2. Much of the dialogue is muttered, so I had to see it with subtitles. But that may not apply to you.
Not everyone loves this movie(like Roger Ebert) but I really enjoyed it. It' starts slow, but afterwards, this movie becomes as fantastic as the 4!