Fantastic Four

[helen]

Saw the movie Fantastic Four (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120667/) at Ward Theater yesterday. For the most part the movie followed the comic series with some changes to update the story to today's timeline (the original comic takes place in the 1960's, where Ben was a World War II Marine pilot, in this movie he is a pilot that was in the military).

Overall this movie is okay even through they miss a minor thing or two to it but I suppose future sequels would cover it.

[shaveice]

hi helen. i was thinking of watching it but the reviews were pretty lukewarm. would you agree? not on the same level as spiderman, etc.?

[helen]

I think the problems with the movie is that time spent between their first use of their powers and the battle with Doctor Doom at the end is that there are holed up at the Baxter Building trying to find out what their powers can do as opposed to foiling a bank robbery or something like that.

Then again The Fantastic Four were adventurers not crime fighters like Spider-Man. It would have been nice if they had Reed and Ben putting together the Fantastic car.

Hopefully they will make a sequel to this movie and feature Galactus in it.