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ah, hell, let's face it...
I watched this movie with low expectations, wanting to clear some of my backlog of movies that I wanted to watch. There are some great effects here, but that is almost no compliment to make these days. The characterization was rather flat, pretty predictable, as were the turn-outs of events, but don't think that this is me saying what's wrong with the movie. As I said, I came in with low expectations, and so it's hard to say that I would have really wanted more. <
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>One thing I WAS disappointed in, however, was a bit of a waste of one of my favorite comic books villains--Dr. Doom. This movie spends so much time setting up the legend of the Fantastic Four that any kind of meaty conflict ends up getting on the back-burner until the last twenty minutes of the movie, and that felt like a little too long to wait. Many comic book films have made the mistake of taking a huge amount of time to get to any action and instead wallow in a lot of pale, flat character study (ahem...Hulk?). Maybe it's to set up sequels and keep the movie machine going, but it tends to make the first installment rather pale, and this one is no exception. <
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Cat Woman was Better
Yes, it's true. The worst complaint about this? Why not call Dr. Doom the Metal Man. Because what they call Dr. Doom in this bears no resemblance to the original. I am not a comic purist who has issues with a movie altering a hero or villain's history for cinematic purposes. See Penguin in Batman Returns for an awesome example of reinvention. As for changing a character's history just to cop out to a plot by plot Hollywood formula? Now we're talking stink. Next, I have no problem with trying something different and lightening the tone of a superhero movie. But please don't do it to such a point that it reaches the level of a sub-standard TV sitcom. Finally, why I would say that Cat Woman was better than this... while that movie had its share of flaws (yet it was nowhere near as bad as it was blasted), I really don't think Halle's performance was bad, let alone Razzie worthy. I cannot say the same for some of the performances in Fantastic Four (knock on wood) (or... oops, were they actors?).

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Fantastic dud (too bad I can't give it 0 stars)
Like most movie goers, I used to think that Catwoman was the lowest of the low -- that is until I met the Fantastic Four. This film succeeds to prove the concept that films can be made without a plot and without caring about the characters. Unfortunately this film does both. Of all the actors, only Michael Chiklis manages to create a character. The rest are terrible but then again there's no script to support them. The effects are horrible mainly because the scenes offer no energy to support them. I know it's amazing considering we have a person that catches fire, a person who's stone, a person who creates invisible force fields and a person who's human play dough. Dr. Doom is entirely butchered. When he appears in the comic costume I felt like I was watching a Mel Brooks film. It was that bad. They made a live action FF film years ago with a $10,000 budget or so. That was miles about this junk. <
> I also complain about the DVD. You had to wait ten minutes to get to the film being forced to endure endless trailers before the film starts. FF was what put Marvel on the map. Stan Lee, who makes a great cameo, and Jack Kirby created an artistic masterpiece about a disfunctional family. Unfortunately what's off the screen is the disfuction of what could have been a terrific film.