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.
This movie is all about expectations. If you expect it to be on par with the greatness we have been given by comic movies - it is garbage. If you expect garbage - it is a somewhat decent watch. I went into this expecting a somewhat decent watch and I was disappointed at some parts and thought that others were better than the predecessor efforts. The cast was definitely better. The Thing looked much better. It wasn't as campy. However, this was the first time that I have not enjoyed watching Miles Teller. The campiness might have actually ended up being needed for certain scenes because us taking it seriously just makes it stupid. And worst of all - this didn't feel like a complete movie. It took way too long for them to "become" the Fantastic Four, they skipped forward a year - which would have been vital to the actual development of the superheroes. They brought in Doom for what felt like the middle of the movie but it was actually the final battle. The movie only actually felt like the Fantastic Four at the very end . . . . . which again should have probably been the middle.
I wouldn't really recommend people wasting their time with this. Even going in with the lowest of expectations and being surprised with it being decent is still not really worth the two hours of your life. I really hope that Fox just stops and lets go of the rights to go back to Marvel. Maybe they can finally give us a legit film version of Fantastic Four.
