The Fantastic Four is an unreleased comic book movie based on the Marvel Comics' team of the same name. While Constantine Film did production, New Concorde handled distribution. The story was written by Craig J. Nevius and Kevin Rock and directed by Oley Sassone.
The story is, after surviving a cosmic rays during space mission, Reed Richards, siblings Sue & Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm have gained superpowers. While this newly formed hero team is figuring things about themselves and their powers, a sinister force going by the name Doctor Doom is lurking and wants domination. Now they must pull themselves together and put a stop to him.
- Negatives
Oh boy, I got quite a lot. Firstly, the acting. It's either bad or over the top. I don't know what was funnier? The wooden line delivers or Doctor Doom's voice that came equipped with sign language. I'm serious about that last one. Nine times out of ten whenever Doom speaks he'll have his hands moving in all sorts of directions like he's Italian. Sorry for diverting there. I just had to mention that.
Next up is the action. Word of advice from the occasionally wise, whenever your budget is a total of a million dollars, don't do a big epic superhero movie especially when all four members of the team have different abilities, your villain has a very detailed costume, and so on. Otherwise you wind up with stuff like this,
And if you thought Mister Fantastic/Reed was bad, get a load of Johnny Storm/The Human Torch.
Maybe it's just me, but that looks more like a red Silver Surfer then Human Torch.
I don't have anything to add to this next one. It's just funny.
Hahahaha! I just love how after he's punched not only does jump up into the air, but he falls down and is spread out. It's almost like a cartoon.
The last thing I'll touch on is the story. It's a mess. For starters, there's no explanation as to why exactly Sue & Johnny are allowed to go on the mission. Other than Reed & Ben [The Thing] knew them since they were kids. Doctor Doom is even worse. We get a slight origin with an experiment gone wrong. But it's never explained how he managed to go from college student to powerful supervillain. There's also the other villain, The Jeweler. Yes there's another villain but he's not interesting and he's ultimately pointless.
- Mix
I've got nothing.
- Positives
Let's start off with the costumes of Doctor Doom and The Thing. They're really good. They look like they came straight out of the comics. Although when looking at them I'm starting to get a good idea where some of the budget went 😆. The last thing I'll praise is this movie is pure entertaining shlock. This is a b-movie to the fullest extent. Chessy acting, cheap special effects, and bad writing, the whole nine yards and I loved every moment.
So yeah folks. This movie is without a doubt, So Bad, It's Good.
If you're curious, you can watch the full thing on YouTube, there's even a documentary about the making of this movie and how it winded up the way it is. And if you don't want to watch the doc on YouTube, then you can watch it on Tubi for free.
So that's going to do it for me. Come back on Thursday, Apr 3rd, for my review of the newest horror flick, Screamboat. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.