Fantastic Four
FANTASTIC FOUR Review
Tonight I finally saw FANTASTIC FOUR. My quick review: Pretty much sucked. The cast aside from the miscast Alba was actually pretty good (Chiklis and the guy who played Johnny Storm were great, Mr. Fantastic alright, and Dr. Doom kind of miscast as well but still decent), but the direction by Tim Story of TAXI fame was attrocious and the script and plotting was abysmal. The f/x were poor, the set design boring, uninspired, and not befitting characters that were so artfully and imaginatively co-created by one of the greatest artistic visionaries ever, Jack "King" Kirby. The uses of the 4's powers was very limtted and rarely exciting, and the pacing was just way, way off. And yet, despite mostly reeking of sucktitude, the best thing that I can say about this movie is that despite how wrong it got it, if they can get a decent director and script for the sequel, this first one actually set things up quite nicely for a potentially kickass part 2. So get James Cameron aboard, mine Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and John Bryne and Mark Waid for the plot, up the f/x budget, and bring on the sequel. But as for this one, it gets a far from fantastic grade of C -, and ranking amongst the worst comic to film adaptations to date.
Tonight I finally saw FANTASTIC FOUR. My quick review: Pretty much sucked. The cast aside from the miscast Alba was actually pretty good (Chiklis and the guy who played Johnny Storm were great, Mr. Fantastic alright, and Dr. Doom kind of miscast as well but still decent), but the direction by Tim Story of TAXI fame was attrocious and the script and plotting was abysmal. The f/x were poor, the set design boring, uninspired, and not befitting characters that were so artfully and imaginatively co-created by one of the greatest artistic visionaries ever, Jack "King" Kirby. The uses of the 4's powers was very limtted and rarely exciting, and the pacing was just way, way off. And yet, despite mostly reeking of sucktitude, the best thing that I can say about this movie is that despite how wrong it got it, if they can get a decent director and script for the sequel, this first one actually set things up quite nicely for a potentially kickass part 2. So get James Cameron aboard, mine Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and John Bryne and Mark Waid for the plot, up the f/x budget, and bring on the sequel. But as for this one, it gets a far from fantastic grade of C -, and ranking amongst the worst comic to film adaptations to date.
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