Tag: marvel-comics
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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…
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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…
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The Incredible Hulk (2008 review)
3 outta 5 2003’s Hulk was darkly psychological, gleefully weird, and something of a failure. So now, The Incredible Hulk is Marvel’s newest take on the big green machine and much more commercially palatable. This Hulk is also kind of uneven, but not in the bug-eyed crazy way its predecessor was. Instead, Incredible Hulk has…