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DVD Fantastic Four (Widescreen Edition)
Fantastic Four is a light-hearted and funny take on Marvel Comics' first family of superherodom. It begins when down-on-his-luck genius Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd, Horatio Hornblower) has to enlist the financial and intellectual help of former schoolmate and rival Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon, Nip/Tuck) in order to pursue outer-space research involving human DNA. Also on the trip are Reed's best friend, Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis, The Shield); his former lover, Sue Storm (Jessica Alba, Dark Angel, Sin City), who's now Doom's employee and love interest; and her hotshot-pilot brother, Johnny Storm (Chris Evans, Cellular). Things don't go as planned, of course, and the quartet becomes blessed--or is it cursed?--with superhuman powers: flexibility, brute strength, invisibility and projecting force fields, and bursting into flame. Meanwhile, Doom himself is undergoing a transformation.
Among the many entries in the comic-book-movie frenzy, Fantastic Four is refreshing because it doesn't take itself too seriously. Characterization isn't too deep, and the action is a bit sparse until the final reel (like most "first" superhero movies, it has to go through the "how did we get these powers and what we will do with them?" churn). But it's a good-looking cast, and original comic-book co-creator Stan Lee makes his most significant Marvel-movie cameo yet, in a speaking role as the FF's steadfast postal carrier, Willie Lumpkin. Newcomers to superhero movies might find the idea of a family with flexibility, strength, invisibility, and force fields a retread of The Incredibles, but Pixar's animated film was very much a tribute to the FF and other heroes of the last 40 years. The irony is that while Fantastic Four is an enjoyable B-grade movie, it's the tribute, The Incredibles, that turned out to be a film for the ages. --David Horiuchi
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not alot of action? oh well!!!
this movie is good but what is with it being trampled like this? i mean sure it's goofy and everything but it's a MOVIE. ok it's not up very far to reach spider-man ok? but also it's the first movie so they have to figure out: what to do with their powers, how to use them and so on. i think that's it.
This Film Was Horrible
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I saw this movie (not film, it doesn't deserved to be called one) back on opening day and it was garbage. Acting was GARBAGE, plot development (or a lackthereof) was GARBAGE, special effects were cheesy to put it litely, (okay I'll give the human torch 2 stars but everything else looked utterly pathedic), and the director needs to be booted while the franchise has any glimmer of hope left (Tim Story really should have stuck to trash like Barbershop because he trashed, battered and smashed, and slaughtered the FF4 franchise).
If you honestly want to see a good, NAY, SUPERB, graphic novel/comic (for little kids who have never heard the term graphic novel) adaptation watch Sin City (the best to date because it is a frame for frame translation from the original series of graphic novels. Frank Miller IS GOD!). Or you can watch Batman Begins (the closest, most accurate Batman film to date) or Constantine (Constantine is even a little spotty in regards to accuracy but it is still a thousand times more entertaining than FF4).
Anyone who pays for this film is giving it more credit than it deserves. I would rather defecate/urinate on it than waste one red penny to own it. And the morons who even suggest watching it on television must be referring to someone who has WAYYYY too much time on their hands. I'd rather watch something as lame as the power rangers than ever give this piece of tripe my time again.
The worst
right from the start the movie smells like a babys diaper soaked in cow fiece because of its Z-grade casting. Worst of all is Julian McMahon, who overacts and doesn't have a nude scene. I would not rent, buy, or EVEN spit on this movie, it STINKS!
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