Fantastic Four reviews

Originally posted by The Tired Hiker
I was totally going to go see this movie today, but now after reading all your reviews, I'm thinking of not seeing it. It sounds like some of you feel there wasn't enough action, that poses a problem for me. I expect to see tons of action, or at least enough other clever stuff to make up for lack of action and special effects. Don't get me wrong, I like a good story, but if this movie is too dialogue based and character driven, it sounds like it will make for a boring comic book movie. Level with me, should I go see it or what?

Imo their was plenty of action and it was awesome.

For the few of you that are finding ways to spin in your reviews how bad Catwoman was, I just felt like I had to say that I liked the movie and I thought it was alright and that in no way is Halle Berry responsible for the way the movie turned out. She was no director, she was the actor, she had to do as she was told.

Ok.....

I look forward to seeing this movie.
And as I have been reading these reviews there have been many saying this movie has too little action and others saying it has enought action and some saying it has a lot of action.

Well which is it?
I'd really like to know, because action movies are my favorite and when I go to see a movie such as this, I go mainly for the action. I hope I am not disappointed.

And another thing. The Incredibles did not steal anything from the Fantastic Four.
If they wanted to use the stretch ability then they have the right to, it's not like the Fantastic Four owns that ability and if someone uses it then they stole it from them. Everything is not about the Fantastic Four. This goes for the Force Field ability too.
I have seen many shows/movies with these abilities and more.
If the case was that using a super ability in a movie meant you were stealing from someone else than X-Men would own everything and would be getting powers stolen left and right cause they have almost every super ability in X-Men imaginable, but you don't hear them complaining and making accusations of people stealing their powers.
Did they get Sue Storm's ability from Jean Grey. I don't hear any arguments about that.
People will always just see what they want to see and not the whole picture. That's just the way it is.

I saw this earlier today. I thought it was quite good. They had a lot of things to touch upon so I felt it was going a mile a minute.

After leaving the theater, I thought to myself, "Poor Ben." It seems that he always finds a way to get back to normal but something comes up and he has to sacrifice his normal self and must become the Thing again.

With the story as it was, their names and catchphrases ("Flame on", "It's clobbering time"😉 worked well with Johnny trying to get all the exposure.

I'll certainly see the sequel.

There are several similarities to The Fantastic Four, another family-unit that fights evil in matching specialized costumes. The moniker "Mr. Incredible" is similar to that of the FF's leader, Mr. Fantastic. Elastigirl and Violet's powers are the same as Mr. Fantastic's and Invisible Woman's, while Jack-Jack briefly displays powers similar to that of the Human Torch. Mr. Incredible's super-strength and easy-to-lose temper reflect the powers and personality of The Thing. Jack-Jack could also represent Franklin Richards. In the end of the movie, a villain called the Underminer appears which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Fantastic Four's villain, the Mole Man. Syndrome's army of henchmen, near unlimited resources, and high-technology all echo the Fantastic Four's greatest villain, Doctor Doom. In the Fantastic Four comics, Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman carry on a romantic relationship before eventually marrying; this is mirrored by the courtship and marriage of Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl.

All that as a coincidence is pretty implausible. I liked Incredibles but there is an undeniable resemblence to the FF, which was created 40 years earlier. To euphemise, Incredibles was an homage to FF, and I'm just hoping the movie-going public don't assume the opposite i.e. that FF derived the powers and concepts from Incredibles.

No one derived powers from anybody.
They're their own seperate movies.

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
All that as a coincidence is pretty implausible. I liked Incredibles but there is an undeniable resemblence to the FF, which was created 40 years earlier. To euphemise, Incredibles was an homage to FF, and I'm just hoping the movie-going public don't assume the opposite i.e. that FF derived the powers and concepts from Incredibles.