Marvel Comics continues to empty out its stable of superheroes with this entertaining tale.

| Apr 25, 2007

Fantastic it most certainly ain't.

| Jun 24, 2006

A garish mediocrity.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005

The FF are unpretentious and nerdy and they bicker with each other, giving the film a loose, buoyant quality in between action sequences.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 25, 2005

A fantastic bore.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 22, 2005

The result is hardly fantastic, but it is quite a lot of fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2005

Weighted down with a turgid story and utterly middling special effects, The Fantastic Four isn't likely to be Stan Lee's favorite of the nearly dozen Marvel Comics adaptations either out already or on their way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 13, 2005

Before the inevitable and surprisingly anticlimactic battle with Doom, we are treated to two extreme-sports demonstrations, several training montages, [and] an ill-advised love triangle.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2005

Now, I'm not saying director Tim Story was the wrong choice but when the only two things of note on your resume are the moderately amusing Barbershop and the horrendous Taxi there just has to be a better way to go.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 12, 2005

Bland performances throughout. And really, who wants to make Jessica Alba the invisible girl? What a bad idea. I want her to be visible at all times.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2005

Reducing a summer blockbuster to the scale of a primetime sitcom is novel, but it isn't admirable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 9, 2005

It exists largely to entertain and delight, which used to be precisely what summer blockbusters were engineered to do.

| Jul 8, 2005

If there was ever any doubt that action scenes depend more on context than flash, Fantastic Four proves it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 8, 2005

The Fantastic Four get treated reverently, but not seriously, in this modified retelling of the story, but then it's hard to take any one seriously who goes to work for Dr. Victor Von Doom and Doom Industries.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 8, 2005

When the Four finally use their different powers together to fight Doctor Doom, it's enough to get you past the torpor of Origin Movie Syndrome and make you hope for a sequel that gets right down to business.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 8, 2005

A funky, fun film version of the famous Marvel superhero concoction.

| Jul 8, 2005

A wildly uneven, sporadically slapdash action-adventure that amuses in fits and starts.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2005

Fantastic it ain't, but not bad it sort of is.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 8, 2005

A perfect storm of wooden acting, hackneyed direction, inane scripting and laughably cartoonish special effects produces a shapeless mess more wearyingly stupid than arch-villian Dr. Doom is evil.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 8, 2005

You don't expect realism from a comic-book movie, but you do want the characters to seem larger than life. Here, they look like contestants at a costume party.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 8, 2005