So guys, the new Fantastic Four film is out and its become a box office bomb and a not very good film in general. So you might be wondering why am I not reviewing that film. Well mainly because of those reasons. I will watch it at some point, but when a film comes out that sucks, I just wait until it comes out on home media before reviewing it. So to substitute for that, I give you the films that came out in the 00s which despite having the light hearted charm that most Marvel films these days are known for, they didn't do well either, but for very different reasons when you compare them to the film that came out this year. So let's see why these films just didn't do well:
Fantastic Four
So our film begins with Dr. Reed Richards (played by Ioan Gruffudd and good luck to anyone trying to pronounce that) being convinced that evolution was triggered on the Earth many years ago by clouds of cosmic energy in space and finds that one of these clouds will soon pass near Earth. He and his astronaut friend Ben Grimm (played by Michael Chiklis) go to convince his former classmate at MIT and now CEO of his own company Dr. Victor Von Doom (played by Julian McMahon) to grant them access to his privately owned space station to test the effects of a biological sample of exposure to the cloud, to which Doom allows but only for him to have control over the experiment and the majority of the profits for whatever they bring. The trio also bring on board brother and sister Sue Storm (played by the insanely hot Jessica Alba) and Johnny Storm (played by Chris Evans, yes the same Chris Evans who also plays Captain America in the MCU). But as you'd expect, the experiment goes awry and the effects are thrown onto the team as they each develop super powers and spend most of the film trying to deal with these powers while Doom faces backlash and eventually plans his revenge on the team for what they did to him. So I'm just going to throw this out there, there is nothing fantastic about this film. There are four people, but they all lack the fantastic element that we were all expecting to see in this film. Chris Evans is just there for the ladies (in scenes where his fire power burns his clothes and thus, he is naked as a result), Jessica Alba is just there for the men (in scenes where she strips to take full advantage of her powers, which backfires) and then we got cheap CGI and the Thing looks nowhere near like how we are to expect him to be like (which for hardcore fans, is for him to be like the Hulk). And for some that calls himself Victor Von Doom, I think that should give the indication that he is the bad guy. I know that's what he's called in the comics, but I think for a villain, the name is just predictable. But hey, at least we get Stan Lee in a cameo. But ultimately, there is nothing fantastic about this film and I'm convinced that these actors were picked for their popularity at the time more than their acting talent. 5/10
Rise of the Silver Surfer
So the first thing I will say about this film, is that it spends less time on the eye candy unlike the first film and actually has us see the team deal with a real threat which I will say even though the threat is a villain to the Fantastic Four, he also serves as a major threat to the rest of the Marvel universe (when you think about it). But anyway, back to the review. So its the wedding of Sue Storm and Reed Richards, but this gets interrupted by some kind of silver surfer (portrayed by Doug Jones, but voiced by Lawrence Fishburne) going at very high speeds, so Johnny Storm aka the Human Torch, goes after him while Reed secretly makes a tracking device to track the surfer, at the request of the army. However, the surfer goes outside of Earth which causes the Human Torch to fall down to Earth, only barely surviving. The team then notice that at the touch of the Human Torch, they then switch powers, which Reed deduces that this silver surfer's exposure to him, can make him switch powers with his teammates. He also discovers that the places that the surfer has been too, have been destroyed, meaning that a bigger threat is yet to come and the team must be ready for this bigger threat. I will say, the film is an improvement over its predecessor, but still has a few problems such as making the big threat nothing more than a puff of smoke rather than what the threat is mean't to look like (and that's me being discrete about spoilers here). Also the film yet again lacks the fantastic element and most of the film feels like a rehash of the first film, just with a different story and different scenarios for the team to tackle. Not the best film, but it does have the funniest Stan Lee cameo I have seen in any Marvel film to date. 6/10
So really I think these films aren't very good, considering that I feel the film makers only bought in the actors because of their looks and their popularity more than their acting talent. I think if Disney and Marvel made these films, they would go down a lot better than what we got here and also what people have said about the reboot that just came out. But at least Stan Lee makes some very funny cameos in both films so I'm happy on that part. 6/10
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