Fantastic Four
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Actor: Chris Evans, Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Julian McMahon, Michael ChiklisBrand: TCFHE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-05
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Fantastic Four
Movie Review: Quite entertaining
Summary: 4 Stars
(3.5/5 stars) I didn't expect much from this movie, considering how mediocre I had heard it is. I was surprised to find it to be really quite decent. The effects are much better than I had heard and the film has no pretensions of being especially deep or meaningful (or at least I hope it doesn't). As with most superhero movies, it sets up this particular franchise for potential sequels by telling the origins, throwing in a love story and having the heroes fight their primary nemesis (in this case, Dr. Doom). It jumps right in without providing much unnecessary background, though some of this does come out over the course of the movie since three of the main characters have shared a love triangle history. I find the Thing's story rather touching without being maudlin. His wife is introduced only to show her rejection of him in this new form, though that is all that is needed. None of the background of Johnny and Sue Storm is provided, aside from a brief mention the two are brother and sister. Would showing anything more of them together add anything to the story? In other words, I consider the movie tight and concise, which is positive. Furthermore, the casting is pretty accurate and it was a wise decision to not cast a big name celebrity, which is the norm for superhero movies, as the enemy. It was also an absolutely brilliant decision to cast Jessica Alba as Sue Storm because she is so gorgeous that I could not take my eyes off her. She certainly adds to my enjoyment of the movie. Ultimately, the movie succeeds at its primary objective, which is to entertain. That is all I expect from it, so I am satisfied with it and I am looking forward to the sequel.
Summary of Fantastic Four
Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis head a sexy, star-powered cast in this explosive adventure about a quartet of flawed, ordinary human beings who suddenly find themselves with extraordinary abilities.After exposure to cosmic radiation, four astronauts become the most remarkable, if dysfunctional, superheroes of all time. Unfortunately, the mission's sponsor has also been transformed ? into the world's most lethal supervillain ? setting the stage for a confrontation of epic proportions. Packed with nonstop action, big laughs and awesome special effects, Fantastic 4 is "powerful fun" (The Baltimore Sun) from start to finish!
Marvel Comics' first family of superherodom, the Fantastic Four, hits the big screen in a light-hearted and funny adventure. It begins when down-on-his-luck genius Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd, Horatio Hornblower) has to enlist the financial and intellectual help from former schoolmate and rival Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon, Nip/Tuck) in order to pursue outer-space research into human DNA. Also on the trip are Reed's best friend, Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis, The Shield); his former lover, Sue Storm (Jessica Alba, Dark Angel, Sin City), who's now Doom's employee and love interest; and her hotshot-pilot brother, Johnny Storm (Chris Evans, Cellular). Things don't go as planned, of course, and the quartet becomes blessed--or is it cursed?--with superhuman powers: flexibility, brute strength, invisibility and projecting force fields, and bursting into flame. Meanwhile, Doom himself is undergoing a transformation.
Among the many entries in the comic-book-movie frenzy, Fantastic Four is refreshing because it doesn't take itself too seriously. Characterization isn't too deep, and the action is a bit sparse until the final reel (like most "first" superhero movies, it has to go through the "how did we get these powers and what we will do with them" churn). But it's a good-looking cast, and original comic-book cocreator Stan Lee makes his most significant Marvel-movie cameo yet, in a speaking role as the FF's steadfast postal carrier, Willie Lumpkin. Newcomers to superhero movies might find the idea of a family with flexibility, strength, invisibility, and force fields a retread of The Incredibles, but Pixar's animated film was very much a tribute to the FF and other heroes of the last 40 years. The irony is that while Fantastic Four is an enjoyable B-grade movie, it's the tribute, The Incredibles, that turned out to be a film for the ages. --David Horiuchi
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 Comics and Graphic Novels |  Disney animated series |  The classic comic book |
 Movie tie-in graphic novel |  The Xbox game |  Fantastic Four Soundtrack |
The Fantastic Cast
 Jessica Alba as Sue Storm |  Michael Chiklis as The Thing |
 Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards |  Chris Evans as Johnny Storm |
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