Fantastic 4 (2005)
If you're hoping for the dark, intellectual
telling of a comic book story like we've seen in the
"Spiderman" and "X-Men" films, forget about it. "Fantastic
4" is strictly kid's stuff. This is one of the worst
films of the summer. Lackluster and irritating, the
film isn't even good ol' fluffy popcorn fun.
The worst problem here is the script
which is about a bunch of whiney, asshole young people,
who couldn't possibly be as smart as they are supposedly
scripted to be, who become whiney, asshole superheroes.
We don't like these idiots when they are real people,
why would we give a fuck about them after they get
super powers?
Yes, I know this is based on a comic
book, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be updated
and reimagined for modern audiences. The science here
is ludicrous. That five people would go through an
anomaly in space and each would have a different reaction
is just stupid as hell. Hey, why not just have them
come back from space and no one knows what happened
to them. Then, maybe, we could believe this ridiculous
premise.
That this middle-school, idiotic
tripe was co-scripted by Mark Frost, who came to prominence
in the shadows of David Lynch makes it all even more
troubling. Frost should have had the balls to have
his name removed from this crap. He certainly can't
be proud of it.
The direction here is lame, the
script is horrendous and the acting is as bad as the
script and direction.
The "Fantastic 4" is really nothing
more than a big pile of #2.
Notes:
Viewed in Austin in July 2004.
