Even Jessica Alba couldn't save this one...

Rating: 5/10 (30 March 2007)

Jessica Alba is more powerful than all four "heroes" in this cosmic bomb. Not for acting ability, but because she appears in a skin-tight outfit occasionally.
Now let's just get one thing out of the way. We know Super-Hero movies can be good. We've seen them. We know that if someone actually works on a screenplay, competently directs, an casts adequate actors, we can actually have a pretty decent flick. Fantastic Four leaves me wondering why anyone would allow this mutant thing onto the screen.
Looking beyond the fact that the villain is played by the demon guy from Charmed, who is essentially the same character, and that Reed Richards is played by a guy I would card if he tried to buy cigarettes from me, the story is one of awkward shifts from point a to point b via special effects and barely-believable character dialog.
This movie is nothing more than an attempt to make money on a franchise. It's not even thinly veiled. If it weren't for the funny back-and-forth between Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm, and the aforementioned Jessica Alba factor, this movie would be completely unwatchable.