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Review: Fantastic Four

by Jeremy Wright on July 11th, 2005

My friend Jake and I went to see Fantastic Four this weekend.

Speaking of which, he’s opened up a new movie review blog. Very cool. Jake’s a great guy, has the oddest sense of humour in the world, and loves movies to boot. He’s still growing into this blogging thing, but I expect he’ll be commanding big bucks for his reviews any day now. If you want to help him along, drop a comment on one of his 2 movie review blogs (one for cinematic releases, one for video releases)).

Anyways, my take on this was basically the same as Jake’s.

Actually, mine was worse.

This was the worst comic book movie I’ve ever seen. Elektra was fun, badly acted, and gorgeous. Fantastic Four was fun, had okay CG (some of the effects were visibly awful, like Mr. Fantastic’s stretchy arm, which really needed some lighting work) but wasn’t gorgeous.

It was badly acted, as Jake noted:

At one point in the film Susan Storm (Jessica Alba) has to show that she is putting a great deal of effort into one of her superpowered heroic maneouvers, and this is portrayed by some CGI blood dripping from her nose. She just couldn’t act the part, so they doctored it up a bit.

The effects were great in some places, crap in others.

As a comic book movie, I’d give this a 2/5. As an overall movie and entertainment I’d give it a 1.5.

It was an “okay” movie. I didn’t leave disappointed that I’d gone (but, then, ticket prices are only 7.50CDN out here, and I had great company). But, it disappoints me that someone can’t actually pull off a comic book movie.

100 million dollar budget? Check.
Well known and practiced actors? Check.
Great CGI and visuals? Check.
Ready to order screenplay? Check.
Huge marketing budget? Check.

How the hell did they manage to create a 1.5/5 with those kinds of tools at their disposal?!

Bleh.

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