A.C.’s Review: In
1961 Stan Lee launched the Marvel Silver Age of Comics with issue
number one of the Fantastic Four featuring the adventures of Scientist
Reed Richards, pilot
and best friend Ben Grimm, fiancé Susan Storm and her kid brother
Johnny Storm who became superheroes after their rocket encountered
cosmic rays on their way to beat the “commies” to the moon.
Reed
became the man with “fantastic” stretching powers, Susan was the
Invisible Girl now. Johnny Storm became the Human Torch and poor Ben
Grimm became the rocky,
monstrous The Thing.
Leap ahead to the 21st
century and we are now witnessing the latest failure to bring the
quartet successfully to the big screen. That latest film makes
the heroes adult teenagers who are imbued with their powers when their
attempt at interdimensional travel goes awry…leading to the same
results. Also in the movie is Dr.Doom as the 5th member of the team who takes villainous turn once granted his
powers.
These
movies fail every single time because they stray too far from the
source material from the comic book. If someone would do a straight up
adaptation…maybe even
make it 1960’s period piece then we might have something here. The
first two movies that came out were too goofy and not serious
enough…this one is deadly serious to the extreme. No balance can be
found.
Also
the movies always tie Dr. Doom’s origins into the FF’s. Not necessary.
In the comics he was an evil genius who was also adept in sorcery. If it
ain't broke don’t
fix!
If
this had not been an FF movie and was just about some young scientists
exploring interdimensional travel then it would have been a good movie
but the weak efforts
to make them superheroes in the last half hour fails.
Not helping things was a much publicized war between director Josh Trank and 20th Century Fox which climaxed with Trank dissing his own movie on the web.
The
best outcome will be that Fox sells the rights back to Disney (who
makes the Avengers movies) and it gets hit out of the park like they did
with Iron Man, Ant
Man and Captain America to name a few.
Best Scene: Not a scene but the overall relationship between Reed and Ben was nice.
A.C.’s Rating: Matinee
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