Too much of everything

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Victor Von Doom is observing a special comet with Reed Richards when an explosive charge changes Von Doom forever. Ten years later, Reed, college friend Ben Grimm, Sue Storm, and her brother Johnny Storm are on an experimental rocket set to investigate the comet. They are sabotaged by Von Doom's minions and they crash back on earth changed with new superpowers.This is a low budget production from B-movie legend Roger Corman. It's an ashcan copy so that producer Bernd Eichinger could maintain the film rights. With such low expectations, there is some fun in exceeding them from time to time. For example, I'm a little shocked that any special effects happens at all. Most of it is silly. It can be hilariously funny with Reed Richards' extending arms. I enjoy Grimm's plastic costume as the Thing. Von Doom's minions are extremely silly but Von Doom himself looks good. The story and directing can get a bit muddled. The acting is strictly B-level. At some point, even the campy fun wears thin and it is simply not good.

This film has a crazy history, but if you put that aside and judge it as a superhero film made on a budget it is great. This movie comes from a time before superhero films had budgets over $100,000,000 and back when comic books were still aimed primarily at kids. It's a simple origin story that stays pretty true to the comic book. The FX can be kind of goofy (except for The Thing, which overall looks awesome). The acting is solid as is the directing, music, and script. If you're a jerk and like belittling cheap genre movies, then you'll probably have a field day with this movie since it literally had 1/100th the budget of modern comic-book films...but I think it's entertaining and fun. The folks who made it did a good job.

In this Marvel Comic adaption, four astronauts get bombarded with cosmic rays when an accident occurs. The four of them acquire special powers, and decide to form a superhero group called the Fantastic Four. They then fight their arch-enemy Dr. Doom. Just watched this film on youtube for the very first time and my god it was awful and at this point the first 2 films with Jessica Alba is the best versions of the Fantastic 4 i mean common how hard can it be to make a Fantastic Four film? Just give the rights back to Marvel, the 2015 version even though it was still an above average film for me at least it had a good film somewhere inside this whole mess but this one? It has bad acting, over the top action, cartoony villains that look like they came out of a Power Rangers episode and in my opinion the worst take ever on Dr. Doom he is stupid and over the top and instead of using his actual powers he uses a damn gun at one point for some reason and there's even a scene where the Fantastic 4 break out and he comes in and keeps talking and then he turns his head and looks at the big hole in the wall and goes like "Hmm" seriously? He tries to be like Darth Vader meets Dr. Doom but he failed on both sides. Also the fact that Sue and Reed met for the first time when she was like 13 and he was like 30 something was creepy as hell, The Thing looks awful and for some reason there's even a Batman reference. Overall this is a film that came out in 1994 and looks like it came out on 1977 and for that i'm going to give it an F

There's something good within this Roger Corman made-for-TV movie, but it's overshadowed by side-characters and situations more befitting to the Krofft brother's universe. Not a bad thing in itself, but the actors playing this famous comic-book team-up had a lot of potential for a much cooler outing than this. Alex-Hyde White plays the assertively brainy Dr. Reed Richards, who, along with fellow college genius Victor Von Doom (with that last name, he's bound to be a villain), attempt an experiment that fails miserably, "killing" Victor and sparing Richards.We then cut ten years later: Richards is joined by Johnny Storm, an over-the-top Jay Underwood, and one of the prettiest women this side of life, Rebecca Staab as Johnny's sister Susan, whose childhood crush on Richards has carried over – and it's mutual. And not forgetting Ben Grimm, portrayed with brawny charm by Michael Baily Smith.Long story short, once in space they're pummeled with mysterious cosmic rays, crash land on earth and while unaffected by that, they've acquired powers: Richards is a human rubber band, Johnny can make fireballs with his hand, Susan turns invisible, and Grimm's turned into a Thing made of rocks. The side-characters include a band of thieving freaks, resembling rejects from the H.R. Puffenstuff set; two vapid thugs; and the black-masked Dr. Doom himself – way too much screen time's spent on these while the titular superheroes, and their particular skills, are used less than sporadically until the very end: which rushes to a quick conclusion.Perhaps if there was a part two, we'd get more of what, and who, this movie's all about. Either way, Reed Richards and Susan Storm have great chemistry. The Thing, although resembling a costume, works fine as a sympathetic hero. And The Human Torch, eventually morphing into animation, looks neat as he battles a giant laser.But all this should have occurred less than halfway through for THE FANTASTIC FOUR to successfully live up to its title.For More Reviews: http://cultfilmfreakreviews.blogspot.com