Tag: Fantastic Four

  • Fantastic Four: First Steps

    Fantastic Four: First Steps

    5 outta 5 After three 20th Century Fox movies and one buried Roger Corman film, the 4th version of Marvel’s First Family in Fantastic Four: First Steps absolutely nails it. It is fairly disconnected from the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe (despite that teaser at the end of Thunderbolts*) and has its own unique vibe. This…

  • Fant4stic (2015 review)

    Fant4stic (2015 review)

    2 outta 5 In the long, long ago of the early 1990s, there was a movie called The Fantastic Four that was made simply so a studio could hang onto the license.  Now history repeats itself.  The primary reason the most recent Fantastic Four film exists is so another movie studio, 20th Century Fox, can…

  • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (’07 review)

    Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (’07 review)

    1 outta 5 When I sat down to watch Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, I thought “Okay, Director Tim Story, try and wow me.”  This was a cynical response to having suffered through the original Fantastic Four movie.  However, shockingly, the opening of this sequel immediately wowed me.  The first shot involves a…

  • Fantastic Four (2005 review)

    Fantastic Four (2005 review)

    2 outta 5 Fantastic Four is a cookie-cutter superhero movie. Insert Origin Plot A, mix liberally with a climatic fight with supervillian Plot B, stir and serve. There’s hardly any superheroing done in the flick until the very end. Nothing is driving the movie, aside from a laundry list of explanations about superpowers, complaints about…