Movie of the Week: Fantastic Four

[jacey]

Is it me or are reboots coming so thick and fast that we all wonder why they bother any more? Or maybe why we bother. Spiderman, Superman and now Fantastic Four.

This is the origin story again with Reed Richards transitioning from child-geek to adult geek, making incredible scientific discoveries and learning how to transport organic matter to another universe by playing with bits of junk from his friend's scrapyard. Yeah, right. I can believe in kryptonite, but interdimensional travel via junkyard parts? Not so sure.

FF may be one of my least favourite comic book stories.Is it because the superpowers that our heroes get are a bit lame. Mr stretchy-man? Really? It's not very sexy, is it? As a movie this version was more than a little bland with no stand-out performances. I wasn't all that fond of the 2005 Fantastic 4 but at least Ioan Gruffudd and Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis had a bit of charisma. I've already forgotten the names of the actors in this.

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[seawasp]

"Mr stretchy-man? Really? It's not very sexy, is it?"

Actually, one of the quotes from Sue Storm was something like "None of them know the REAL reason you're called Mr. Fantastic".

Insofar as a powerset, people who are CLEVER with the stretch-power can be extremely formidable. Reed's main power is actually his brain so he generally doesn't use his power as cleverly as he might, but other stretch-heroes like Plastic Man, Elastic Man, and Luffy from One Piece have demonstrated just how dangerous that power can be.


This version borrowed from the "Ultimates" series which I consider very blah. I don't understand how they can screw up the FF like this, and even less how they can screw up Doc Doom. Doom's the most straightforward villain to do, really, but instead they insist on changing him.