Rating: PG-13
Ordinary people are transformed into superheroes. Dr. Reed Richards, whose limbs become elastic, Ben Grimm, whose body is solid rock, Sue Storm, who is rendered invisible and Johnny Storm, the human torch after being exposed to radiation while on assignment in space.

WE HAVE A FANTASTIC FOUR THREAD!!! IN THE SUPERHEROES SECTION. I posted movie stuff there. Stop posting comic book movies in this section if there all ready is a thread about it in the Superheroes.

The reason I posted it here is that it is a Movie and this is the movie section.

No. If it's based on a widely popular comic book, it belongs in the Superheroes Section. The Official Fantastic Four Discussion Thread. Understand, dude???

I understand.

Anybody got any input about the film???

i am watching it tomorrow. by the time you see this however. i would have seen it already.

One thing I have noticed is that a lot of toys for this movie is out and has been advertised a lot.

Big time.

movie is okay
how okay?

well you can wait for a few days then watch it


its not go to rush to movie good
neither it is wait for it on dvd good

Here is what one reported said about the Fantastic Four Movie:

Fantastic Four" got there first, developing the concept of superheroes as a dysfunctional family four decades ago. But "The Incredibles" did it far, far better on the big screen.

That animated smash owes an enormous debt to its predecessor, appropriating specific superpowers from the Marvel Comics quartet and the essential theme that life on the homestead goes smoother when kinfolk all row together.

Now the original foursome must flounder in the wake of "The Incredibles, which makes "Fantastic Four" look like a dim, dismal affair by comparison. Even if the cartoon hit had not stolen its thunder, though, "Fantastic Four" would weigh in as a featherweight, feather-headed flick, a low point in the current wave of comic-book adaptations.

Unlike the sometimes ponderous self-importance of "Batman Begins," the themes of racism and alienation in the "X-Men" movies or the notion of personal sacrifice in the "Spider-Man" films, "Fantastic Four" aims for a good old goofy time.

It succeeds on the goofy part, presenting a shallow tale that has a few laughs but no real drama. Less a movie than an anecdotal collection of slapstick action, "Fantastic Four" carries the silliness to such a degree you practically expect campy flashes of "Thwap!" and "Kapow!" a la the 1960s "Batman" TV show.

The movie starts at the beginning, explaining how four astronauts encountered a nasty space storm whose radiation turned them into a merry band of mutants.

Dr. Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), a weeny egghead who has to go begging arrogant old school chum Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon) to back an expedition to study the storm, is turned into human Silly Putty, able to stretch and contort his body any way he wants.

Reed's former squeeze Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), now Von Doom's girlfriend, finds she can turn invisible and create force fields. Her brother, Johnny Storm (Chris Evans), gains the power to fly and engulf himself in flames. Reed's buddy Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis) is transformed into a rocklike hulk with amazing strength.

Unlike the usual superhero alter egos, the foursome's identities and powers become widely known after a public spectacle of heroics on the Brooklyn Bridge. In the media, Reed becomes known as Mr. Fantastic, Sue the Invisible Woman, Johnny the Human Torch, and Ben the Thing.

Meantime, Victor has been quietly mutating himself, taking on metallic and electromagnetic properties that make him the virtually indestructible megalomaniac Dr. Doom, whose first order of business is to eliminate the Fantastic Four. He doesn't seem to have any plans beyond that.

Tim Story, who made an admirable debut with "Barbershop" but followed with last year's feeble action comedy "Taxi," was a curious choice to direct. As "Taxi" showed, he is not very adept at handling action, and the far more elaborate stunt sequences in "Fantastic Four" look choppy and ill-defined.

The visual effects are cartoonish. Again, the movie suffers from comparisons to "The Incredibles," which had the benefit of being a real cartoon, its heroes' abilities wilder yet still more believable because of their animated context.

The screenplay by Mark Frost and Michael France presents a miserly little personal battle between the good guys and Doom, leaving no sense that anything is at stake other than these sideshow freaks themselves.

Relationships among the groups are thin and corny, and the movie's endless gatherings of gawking onlookers continually distract. The background crowds ham it up so much they collectively deserve a worst-actor prize for non-speaking extras.

After the Brooklyn Bridge incident, a mess they indirectly caused, the Fantastic Four spent much of the movie squabbling like a family in group therapy gone horribly wrong. They knock each other about with no regard to the safety of others, begging the question, are these superheroes more trouble than they're worth?

Of course, the movie has the obligatory set up for a sequel. Let's hope this misfit family decides to part company before it comes to that.

"Fantastic Four," a 20th Century Fox release, is rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action, and some suggestive content. Running time: 106 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

Critic is a jerk.

He's just voicing his opinion. He's not a jerk for doing that.

Making a movie sound a bit bad is a jerk to me.

OFF TOPIC: So he's a jerk because he has an opinion?

For those that can't wait to see it, have fun. B)

Looking for something wrong in something so cool is bad.


I plan to see it with three old friends.

So if I said I don't plan on seeing it, you'd think that would be bad?

All I can say is watch the movie and tell me your opinion of it, do you agree with this guy?

i dare you guys

after watching a movie and seeing its an okay movie

go outside, find the line to fantastic four, face these people and say

THE MOVIEE SUCKED GO home!!
hahaha. i told my friend to do that. hehe. none of us are courage enough to say it.

I plan on making a fantastic meal inspired by the movie after I see it.