Four young outsiders teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe
which alters their physical form in shocking ways. The four must learn
to harness their new abilities and work together to save Earth from a
former friend turned enemy.
Director: Josh Trank
Writers: Simon Kinberg (screenplay), Jeremy Slater (screenplay) .
Stars: Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan |
Storyline :
FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel's original and
longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who
teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their
physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the
team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work
together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Movie Reviews :
Yes, he’ll get even with Reed Richards, and his little friends too! Richards!!!! Continuing this thought process where I know nothing about comic books, Fantastic Four was a pretty good summer movie.
This Doom seems more upset over losing his love interest and using his new powers, powers the comic book Doom doesn’t possess, to wreak havoc on the Fantastic Four.
But before I continue that thought process, let’s pretend I know nothing about the comic books, and that Fantastic Four, the movie, is my first introduction to the super powered combo.
Fantastic Four is not a bad movie, but it is a film likely to alienate the fan base of the comic book on which it is based.
Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd) and his pilot friend Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis) seeking aid for a project Reed is working on, involving unlocking the secrets of life on Earth from a cosmic storm in space.
In the comic books Doom suffered from his own pride and originally targeted Reed Richards to prove that he, Doom, was the greater scientist.
Essentially the movie presents the characters and then they get powers, without any sort of logic or reasoning behind where those powers might come from other than the cosmic radiation the team was exposed to.
But nobody’s reaction is as extreme as Victor’s, who sees his powers as a chance to even the score with Reed Richards for destroying his life with a botched scientific experiment and taking away the woman he loved.
Now let’s go back to the real world, where I am quite aware of the Fantastic Four comic books, even if I’m not a huge fan.
Because of that, the idea of a Fantastic Four movie didn’t really excite me, and as the trailers poured in, my lack of excitement never grew, since what I saw looked pretty horrible compared to what I did know about the team.
As further insult to Reed and Ben, Sue’s hothead brother Johnny Storm (Chris Evans) will pilot the craft that takes the science project into space.
Here’s my take on the movie as a comic fan: What the hell have they done? I understand adaptations have to alter the source material a little to convert a book to the movie screen, even a comic book, although it’s already a visual medium.
Already broke and rejected by other possibilities, Reed and Ben turn to Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon) for help.
Originally each of the FF ended up with powers that reflected their personality: Reed Richards’ flexibility as a scientist, Sue Storm feeling neglected as Reed paid more attention to his experiments than to her.
As a comic book fan, the Fantastic Four have never been at the top of my list.
After all, the creator of the Fantastic Four, Stan Lee, always called Marvel Comic fans “true believers”.
When Spider-Man developed his powers, the Fantastic Four was one of the first teams he sought out.
Some of Reed Richard’s stretching looks really good, some of it looks extremely fake, particularly a fight between Reed and Ben where it’s painfully obvious Ioan Gruffudd just stood behind Chiklis as Michael reacted to what would eventually be CGI.
Reed has the ability to stretch his body, Sue can become invisible, Johnny can immerse himself with fire, and Ben becomes a monster encased in some sort of hardened rock armor.
To take a well known story, toss it in a blender, and blatantly alter it for no reason whatsoever is another, and that’s exactly what happens in Fantastic Four.
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