I did not enjoy the first one in this series at all. I thought it was stupid. There's actually a reboot coming either next year or 2015. Maybe in a post-Avengers world we can get a decent Fantastic Four movie.This one wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, even though it was still horribly miscast. Chris Evans is, frankly, too good to just be the Human Torch and Jessica Alba looks awful with blond hair and blue eyes. I mean, come on.
Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd) and Sue Storm (Jessica Alba) are trying to get married but it's hard to have a quiet ceremony when you are Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman. The U.S. military wants Reed to help them discover what has been causing massive spikes of cosmic radiation all around the world. When one disturbance happens right over their wedding, Johnny (Chris Evans) goes after it. He is able to determine that it's actually a naked silver dude on an interstellar surfboard but his recklessness puts him at odds with the rest of the team. The surfer (Lawrence Fishbourne) eventually tells them that he's really not trying to destroy their planet...he's just prepping it for the Eater of Worlds, Galactus. After Sue uses her hotness (it's a superpower) to convince him that would suck, he decides to help out the Earthlings. Unfortunately, Victor von Doom (Julian McMahon) wants to try his hand at being the Green Goblin for a minute and steals the surfboard.
My main problem with this pair of films is that it's skewed way too young. The humor is juvenile and everything feels dumbed down. Like a comic strip versus a graphic novel. It doesn't have to be Oscar-winning, but it needs to have some soul.
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