Fantastic Four

Viewer Rating:Eleanor has rated Fantastic Four rating: 1 Star

If it wasn't for the fact that Stan Lee is a genius (watch out for his trademark cameo appearance - this time as a postman) one would have to wonder whether this was intended as a parody of the more mainstream superhero fodder. I know that the idea of a boy developing the powers of a spider seemed a bit dumb on paper but it worked. However, the ability to stretch, to spontaneously combust, to turn invisible at inopportune moments - and to have to be naked for this to be of any use (gratuitous? Surely not) and super-strength but only at the expense of looking like a tangoed boulder? The word 'lame' springs to mind. Ditched baddie Victor Von Doom has turned to metal, which begs the question, if we could be bothered to ask it, why did a cosmic storm have such disparate effect on five people. Beyond establishing how our heroes got their powers little really happened in this one and it does feel like chapter one in what the producers hope to be a long franchise. Really only for the very young, although there is one rather disturbingly graphic murder perpetrated in an underground garage by Dr. Doom. The Incredibles without the tongue in cheek!

Review published on the 18 June 2007 09:59