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...borderline lame. I was highly disappointed. It departed from the book's true storyline too much:
The intensity of the fight scenes looked as if they were dictated by the movie's production budget--not equal to that of one of comicsdom "World's Greatest Fighting Teams".
When one of the highlight's in the movie is spotting Stan Lee, who makes an appearance in all his characters' movie adaptations, it's struggling, imo. This may be the weakest Marvel-to-film effort thus far and could potentially grade lower than Hulk. That's sad. For twenty years, the FF was the headliner for Marvel Comics, until the X-books gained worldwide success. To see this title brought to the screen in this fashion is almost enough to make a grown man cry.
As far as comics adaptation, 2005 is the year of Batman Begins. A masterpiece which ranks just behind both Spider-Man films at number three all-time, imo. If there is an FF sequel, FOX would do well in allowing Christopher Nolan to direct it.
I'll give FF barely
out of
- There was zero need to group Victor von Doom at the moment they were granted their powers.
- The movie invested very little background into the fierce rivalry which existed between the world's most brilliant men, Victor and Reed Richards. This ignored plotline undercuts the book's original, central theme to threads.
- Reed Richards is highly intelligent, but is sometimes shown as being inept. Ioan Gruffudd's portrayal was almost as bland as Eric Bana's Bruce Banner in Hulk a few years ago. His only saving grace were the few computer special effects for his character.
- They morphed Susan Storm's character into that of a fairly renowned scientist. Then, throughout the movie, she isn't allowed to display her intelligence. Stupid. They did promote Jessica Alba's eye candy appeal as much as possible, but that backfired by having her go 'accidentially' invisible too often.
- The Ben Grimm character was all over the place. Literally. One scene has Michael Chiklis' character in a mountain range. One or two scenes later, which was in one, maybe two days movie time, he is shown sitting on the Brooklyn Bridge, but very few people noticed him between those two scenes. However, Chiklis' performance was the second best behind...
- ...Chris Evans' Human Torch. Either he's a comics fan or did his research very well. His character was 100% on the nose. From Johnny Storm's wild, flamboyant nature to his childish pestering of Ben, he made the price of admission tolerable.
- Julian McMahon acting as Doom was weak. He, and 20th Century Fox, dropped the ball. Badly. His character was the native of a fictional European nation called Latveria (sp?). Very, VERY few times in the movie throughout the movie, McMahon didn't even attempt to give Doom an accent! Amazing. Doom is one of the classic villians in comics, period. Instead, the director tried to copy the Willem Dafoe/Norman Osborn American industrialist story arc from Spider-Man for McMahon's Doom in this film. It failed.
The intensity of the fight scenes looked as if they were dictated by the movie's production budget--not equal to that of one of comicsdom "World's Greatest Fighting Teams".
When one of the highlight's in the movie is spotting Stan Lee, who makes an appearance in all his characters' movie adaptations, it's struggling, imo. This may be the weakest Marvel-to-film effort thus far and could potentially grade lower than Hulk. That's sad. For twenty years, the FF was the headliner for Marvel Comics, until the X-books gained worldwide success. To see this title brought to the screen in this fashion is almost enough to make a grown man cry.
As far as comics adaptation, 2005 is the year of Batman Begins. A masterpiece which ranks just behind both Spider-Man films at number three all-time, imo. If there is an FF sequel, FOX would do well in allowing Christopher Nolan to direct it.
I'll give FF barely
out of 
