Fantastic Four (Full Screen Edition)
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Actor: Chris Evans, Hamish Linklater, Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael ChiklisDirector: Tim Story
Brand: TCFHE
Producer: Avi Arad
Producer: Bernd Eichinger
Producer: Chris Columbus
Writer: Jack Kirby
Writer: Mark Frost
Writer: Michael France
Writer: Stan Lee
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Fantastic Four (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: They Changed Almost Everything, But For The Better
Summary: 5 Stars
They had changed Spiderman, they had changed Lost In Space, and so I shouldn't have been surprised at seeing the Fantastic Four. I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was. I wanted to see what the 60's comic book had shown: the spaceship bearing Reed Richards, Jonny and Sue Storm, and Ben Grimm crashing to Earth and suddenly discovering amidst the wreckage of their ship, that they had great but unusual powers.
But the way this foursome disvovers it's powers is lame at best and far from true to the books. I hate change just for the sake of change. And yet, this movie turns out to be a great movie!
It drags at the beginning, but as Victor von Doom, the man who financed the ill-fated expedition that created the Fantastic Four and who was also on board the space craft with them, begins to go crazy with a lust for power the movie picks up and fast.
Doom also has powers and he wants more. When he sees that Reed Richards has created a machine that hopefully will "cure" them all, he tricks Ben into using to become normal while his powers increase. Then with the Thing out the way, Doom goes after the other three in a big way. The special effects which could have easily taken over instead of plot, is used to perfection in a climatic battle between the Fantastic Four and Victor von Doom that just keeps you on the edge of your seat!
This was a surprisingly good movie and one can oly hope that the sequel-- and we all know there will be a sequel-- will be just as good or better than this one, although whoever will write the sequel will have to work really hard to do better than this!
Summary of Fantastic Four (Full Screen Edition)
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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