Fantastic Four (Special Edition, 2 DVDs) Reviews

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room The Fantastic Four has never been as celebrated as the more "mainstream" flagship comic book heroes, such as Batman, Spider-Man and Superman, but it does have a certain goofy charm, and while far from one of Stan Lee's better efforts, it is decent, bombastic fun if ...  Read the complete review

Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), Johnny Storm (Chris Evan), Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis) and Reed Richards(Ioan Gruffudd) are introduced as scientists that are hit by a burst of cosmic radiation in space which changes their molecules so that they gain superpowers. Johnny is the only one who embraces this newfound power whereas Ben, who has changed his ...  Read the complete review

As my boys are still going through their Marvel characters phase we decided to get the Fantastic Four for them. This is also a film which hubby was keen to watch as he does like the Thing! The film is about a group of scientists who go into space to watch the solar storms but unfortunately they are not protected in the space station as ...  Read the complete review

The film starts when scientist Reed Richards played by Ioan Gruffudd wants to find out if his theory on evolution is true. The trouble is he hasn't got the money to get into space to find out. Along with his sidekick Ben Grimm who's played by Michael Chiklis, he takes the embarrassing step of going cap in had to old MIT friend Victor von Doom ...  Read the complete review

I have to admit that I didn't go into Fantastic Four with very high expectations. Out of it's 5 main stars, I could only really consider myself to be a fan, in some light, of at best 2 of them, I had never been all that avid a fan of the comics, and the fact that the iconic villain Dr. Doom was having his origin screwed around with really wasn't ...  Read the complete review

None of the main characters are really given any kind of introduction. At least in Spiderman and X-Men there is some kind of character outlining. Their powers are acquired far too easily, not explained - no real back story. They get into space too easily, the mission isn't explained. Why Victor Doom is aboard, no reason given. This is ...  Read the complete review

It seems that superhero comic-to-film adaptations have been quite the thing over the last few years, with the success of films like Spiderman and X-Men inspiring more and more. Coming along in 2005, Fantastic Four was arguably scraping the barrel to catch onto the end of the bandwagon (if you'll pardon the mixing of metaphors) and received some ...  Read the complete review

OK. What happens when you make a movie adaptation of one of my favourite comic books of all time and then put the second sexiest man in the whole world in one of the leading roles? It must surely be a recipe for success, right? Well, maybe… When Reed Richards wants to undertake groundbreaking research in outer space, he needs the ...  Read the complete review

After an expensive expedition into space goes wrong and a cosmic blast engulf their space ship five lives are changed forever. Sue Storm, Richard Reed, Ben Grimm, Victor Von Doom and Johnny Storm all discover that because of the blast they start to receive super powers, each person having a unique gift (such as invisibility, super strength and the ...  Read the complete review

This review is for the FILM ' Fantastic Four' and NOT the DVD. I watched this film a couple of nights ago expecting a pretty good film. I was a bit disappointed but I suppose its ok for a rental, I wouldn't buy the dvd. PRICE: - Lets get this out the way first. You can buy this dvd for £7.99 or a 2 disc edition for £14.99 on ...  Read the complete review

I usually get bored when there is nothing happening on the films thats exciting but in this film i didnt get bored once. My eyes were glued to the TV throughout the whole film. The storyline is not very good but the action is great. If you are a person that likes action packed films then this one is definitely for you but if you prefer ...  Read the complete review

I really don’t know how some people get jobs in the movie business. But it’s obvious that some of them are bean counters and more interested in the ‘product’ rather than the film. After hits like X-Men and Spiderman, the next comic book franchise open to make the big bucks was Fantastic Four. A film has been muted for many years and at one stage ...  Read the complete review

(This review was originaly posted in epinions.com on Nov 14 '05 and can also be found in associatedcontent.com and now also here..) Fantastic Four (2005) I am not a movie maker, but I know that the process of making one is not a simple task. Since, the audience is not the one making the film, it seems ...  Read the complete review

Fantastic Four is one of those guilty pleasures. All the critics and your mates will say it’s rubbish. Thankfully, I went to see it before any of the reviews came out and, do you know what? It’s [whisper] quite good fun. The basic plot betrays the Four’s 1960s origins: four astronauts (Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Johnny Storm and Sue ...  Read the complete review

After a couple of non-film reviews for me, I decided I was in need of a bit of entertainment in my life this week so I decided to watch a film that I knew would be entertaining with my sister. That film was Fantastic Four which I had heard from everybody was rubbish and not as good as the other comic book adaptations. Me I like to not compare ...  Read the complete review

This is the movie adaptation of the Marvelcomic. Mister Fantastic, The Human Torch, Invisible Woman and The Thing go into space. A man who later becomes Doctor Doom - pilots a spaceship through a space storm, which hits the ship with space lightening and alters them all, giving them super powers. When they get back to Earth they soon ...  Read the complete review

Through an associate I have procured an advance copy of the DVD release of Fantastic Four. Sadly it’s not the special two-disc edition but then I very much doubt I’d have wasted my time with going through another disc on the film. I saw Fantastic Four on its cinema release, I don’t why I did but morbid curiosity got the better of me. ...  Read the complete review

I never expect too much of big screen remakes of successful comic strip characters. Garfield and Scooby Doo are just two recent examples where the translation of the character was good, but the plot was weak or non-existent. Why, then, did I spend any time on the Fantastic Four? Well, it's like this. When I was a child, the American ...  Read the complete review