The Fantastic Four are, in short, underwhelming. The edges kind of blur between them and other superhero teams. That's understandable. How many people could pass a test right now on who the X-Men are and what their powers are? Or would want to? I wasn't watching "Fantastic Four" to study it, but to be entertained by it, but how could I be amazed by a movie that makes its own characters so indifferent about themselves?
San Diego Union-Tribune: "Fantastic Four" has jolly payoffs but could have been better, perhaps a blithe pop convergence of the comical charms of "Galaxy Quest" and the thundering effects zest of "The Core." But both those movies thudded at the box office, maybe because they asked the audience to do more than gape, and the makers of this show aren't going to take such chances.
Go in expecting just another summer bulldozer, and you might be pleasantly surprised. Expect much more, and you might get impatient. Either way, it isn't the morbid mosh pit of Spielberg's invasion epic.
New York Daily News: ...this adaptation of the popular Marvel Comics superhero series plays like a neighborhood Halloween party, where the guests spend the evening checking each other out and trying to guess who will win Best Costume.
..."Fantastic Four" is aimed at a teenage audience, but I expect the average age of the most-pleased viewers will be in the single digits. It's a big, noisy, colorful lark, and perhaps the safest children's summer movie this side of "Madagascar."
Seattle Times: As super-flicks go, the long-awaited and long-troubled big-screen adventure of Marvel's "first family" is no "Spider-Man," but it stomps on "Elektra."
...For all its misses, the movie has more hits. Doom is not a hyperbole-spouting caricature but a manipulator who first tries to turn Ben against his friends. Johnny's constant, playful needling of Ben — a highlight — taps into the essence of Lee and Kirby.
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