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  2005 Fantastic Four - Movie reviews, trailers, clips and stills
No one of the four is terrifically convincing -- granted, being invisible/throwing invisible force fields around is a hard superpower to act out in any interesting way -- and the effects are pretty cheesy, considering the film's estimated coast, and really, none of the heroes gets much of a story to tell.
Fantastic Four is not about to get into homoerotic attractions, of course, except as they provide grist for phobo jokes.
Johnny likes to surround himself with girls in bikinis and pose for photos after he saves a citizen, a preference that grants the movie another dimension (aside from Ben's odd melodrama), which is: the complicated relationship between superheroes and celebrity.
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  Fantastic 4 (2005 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fantastic 4 is a 2005 movie based on the Marvel Comics comic Fantastic Four, directed by Tim Story and released by 20th Century Fox.
The movie was criticized for weak storytelling and flat characters — especially the bland Doctor Doom, arguably one of the hallmark villains in the Marvel Comics world.
However, Fantastic Four proved a surprise box office hit on its opening weekend, apparently ending a major prolonged box office slump that was causing concern in the American film industry.
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 Critics reviews for "Fantastic Four" (2005) - Movie World DB
There is a shot in “Fantastic Four” in which the supervillain, Doctor Doom, emerges slowly from the back of a garbage truck....
Fantastic is not the adjective that comes to mind when describing Fantastic Four, Tim Story's middling film version of the...
Fantastic Four is the comic book that gave birth to Marvel Comics, making it the older sibling to such better-known titles as...
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 Thing (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although The Thing has always been closely identified with the Fantastic Four, he did appear as a solo character in a bizarre and short-lived 1979 spinoff of the animated series The Flintstones, entitled Fred and Barney Meet the Thing.
The Thing also appeared in the 2005 film released by 20th Century Fox, in which he was portrayed by Michael Chiklis.
Jack Kirby, the original artist behind the Fantastic Four, drew the Thing such that he was shorter than Reed Richards, at a height of approximately 5'9".
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 Fantastic Four (2005) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
Made for a few million dollars, the movie was a quickie release made solely to force the studio to buy back the rights and never let the movie see the light of day (though a few copies ended up in circulation).
The beauty of the Fantastic Four is that it depicts friends as family, and family as tighter than arguments or trouble, bigger than expectations or struggles, and stronger than greed or evil.
But the strength of the movie is that four stand as one against Doom, and the evil he represents.
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 Movie Gurus - Movie Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It’s not particularly fantastic, but ‘Fantastic Four’ is passable summer popcorn fare from Marvel Comics, a company determined to convert their entire catalog into movie franchises.
The movie is at its best when the four try to deal with their new powers and get on each other’s nerves as they stay in close quarters, under quarantine.
‘Fantastic Four’ is a genesis story, so after being struck by a cosmic storm, the four hole up in Rex Richards’ lab and loft atop the Baxter building — which bears a striking resemblance to Doc Ock’s pad in ‘Spiderman 2’ — to find a cure to revert them back to normal.
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 "Fantastic Four" (2005) Movie Review - American Entertainment :: Web Newsroom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Fantastic Four were created in 1961 by Marvel Comics writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby in response to the Justice League, a superhero team from rival DC Comics.
As the story goes, four friends are zapped by radiation during a cosmic storm in space.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Fantastic Four" is a frustrating, flimsy 3.
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 The Fantastic Four (2005) Movie Review
This movie is my return into the world of the crime-fighting team and maybe I've changed.
Whatever it is, The Fantastic Four certainly isn't going to get me scurrying out to get a new copy of the comic.
Fantastic Four feels more like a made-for-cable movie than a major motion picture, and maybe when it is playing constantly on HBO in a few months it will work better.
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 Fantastic Four - Most Enjoyable Movie of 2005?
I was hoping Ben Grimm was going to be the heart and soul of the film and to a certain extent he was, but the whole turning back to a human and then back again took away the gravitas of being trapped in such a body.
Yeah I found Fantastic Four great fun, not as great as say Batman Begins, but it was good harmless fun and entertaining throughout, and the guys were hot (sorry not relevant).
I took Fantastic Four as the way its meant to be a fun time in another world.A great piece of popcorn entetainment.
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 The religion of The Thing (Ben Grimm) of the Fantastic Four
In a Fantastic Four from 1968, a really powerful good guy called the Silver Surfer was acting like a bad guy because he wanted to give all of humanity a common foe that could unite us all in a common purpose.
Four years ago, we learned that The Thing is Jewish when he was shown praying in Hebrew over the body of a friend he had sought to protect.
Reed led the FF [Fantastic Four] in again defeating Doom by having him claim to be superior to the Haazareth, the demons that empowered him.
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 Amazon.com: Fantastic Four (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Ioan Gruffudd,Jessica Alba,Chris Evans,Michael Chiklis,Julian ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Newcomers to superhero movies might find the idea of a family with flexibility, strength, invisibility, and force fields a retread of The Incredibles, but Pixar's animated film was very much a tribute to the FF and other heroes of the last 40 years.
Fantastic Four, despite the negative buzz surrounding the shoot for months, turned out to be an entertaining movie, albeit one that serves primarily as the backstory for sequels to come.
Fantastic, Reed can reshape and stretch his body as if it were rubber; Sue becomes the Invisible Girl, who also can create force fields; Johnny is the Human Torch, a living man of flame; and Ben, in a way tragically, becomes the monstrous but superstrong Thing.
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 Movie Review | Fantastic Four (2005) Jessica Alba, Julian McMahon
Basically an Origins Story, "Fantastic Four" takes some liberties with the original comic book, which isn't a surprise as it seems like every screenwriter assigned to write a comic book movie nowadays thinks the only way he can make the movie "his" is to fubar the original concept.
"Fantastic Four" is a kid's superhero movie, even if Sue keeps talking about relationships to the absent minded Reed, and Doom ends up drilling holes through people with electrical beams.
The talk of the town before the film's release was the movie's interpretation of The Thing, and true to rumors, it's not entirely convincing.
www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/fantasticfour.htm   (884 words)

  
 Fantastic Four (2005) Movie Review - 2.5 out of 4.0 stars - The Movie Insider
Stan Lee has continuously remarked that the Fantastic Four are the greatest superheroes he's ever created, trumping even Spider-Man and the Hulk for the Marvel Comics gold star.
Fantastic Four is entertaining, and provides a worthy origin story to our four heroes, but it's also fair to say that it's a bit clunky in its presentation.
Fantastic), Sue has the ability to become invisible and create force fields (Invisible Girl), Johnny can light his entire body on fire and fly (The Human Torch), and Ben transforms into a monstrous super-strong being (The Thing).
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 SPLICEDwire | "Fantastic Four" movie review (2005) "Fantastic Four" review, Tim Story, Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, ...
Sent into space along with a paper-thin cast of compatriots (a geneticist ex-boyfriend, her failed-astronaut brother, an ex-NASA pilot and a transparently evil billionaire), Sue and this group of supposed geniuses can't even keep track of the glowing cloud of gases they're supposed to be studying.
Fantastic, and continues to pine for Sue with all the corniness he can muster while seeking a cure for their "condition." Sue's obnoxiously egotistical sibling Johnny Storm (blandly young'n'hunky Chris Evans from "Cellular") becomes The Human Torch, using his burst-into-fire powers to pick up chicks.
But comedy director Tim Story ("Taxi," "Barbershop") is out of his depth in "Fantastic Four," which may be the worst comic-book picture since "Batman and Robin" almost buried that franchise eight years ago.
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 Fantastic Four Movie - MoviesOnline!
The Fantastic Four are: Reed Richards / Mr.
Fantastic, who can elongate his body; Susan Storm / Invisible Woman, who not only can become invisible at will but can render other objects invisible; Johnny Storm / Human Torch, who can shoot fire from his finger tips and bend flame; and Ben Grimm / The Thing, a hideously misshapen monster with superhuman strength.
Fantastic Four has had a very troubled time, from preproduction problems, to weird casting (Ioan Gruffudd and Chri...
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 Fantastic Four (2005) - Movie World DB
Fantastic Four (2005) - Movie World DB home
In "Fantastic Four" Marvel's first family of comic superheroes comes to the big screen.
Fantastic, who can elongate his body; Susan Storm/Invisible Woman, who not only can become invisible at will but can render other objects invisible; Johnny Storm/Human Torch, who can shoot fire from his finger tips and bend flame; and Ben Grimm/The Thing, a hideously misshapen monster with superhuman strength, together battle the evil Doctor Doom.
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 Fantastic Four (2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Chris Evans as Johnny Storm was pretty funny throughout the whole movie.
It was very much an entertaining movie, but maybe fell to short in time, it could've been a little longer but it seemed to finish a little to quickly.
My main point to this review is to inform people just to watch this movie with an open mind.
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The band also recorded a new song entitled "Come On, Come In" for the 2005 movie Fantastic Four.
Also during 2005, the group announced that it has been recording its sophomore album, which is due out in spring 2006.
In December 2005, the band set Libertad (spanish for "freedom") as the working title of the album.
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 Fantastic Four (2005) Movie Review - RopeofSilicon.com
Fantastic), Sue can go invisible (The Invisible Girl), Grimm is a big ol' rock man (The Thing), Johnny can start on fire (The Human Torch) and Von Doom becomes a bit of a metal head.
As for our "four" they are coping with their abilities in a variety of ways and this is where our story really begins as Johnny embraces his new powers and the other three only look for a way out, but sooner than later they all are forced to come together.
Once all is said and done you can't sit back and look for Fantastic Four to be something it isn't, this is a popcorn flick plain and simple.
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 Fantastic Four Movie - 2005 Fantastic 4 Movie news, trailer, pictures, wallpaper and more!
See the Fantastic Four trailer, view our Fantastic Four picture gallery, download Fantastic Four wallpaper, listen to the Fantastic Four soundtrack, bone up on Fantastic Four comics history, buy the Fantastic Four DVD or poster, and learn about the cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis.
Fantastic (Ioan Gruffud) recently spoke to The Daily Express and had this to say about filling Craig's shoes...
Julian McMahon is reprising his role of Dr. Doom in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
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 Asian Entertainment News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Back after a hiatus since her 2002 movie “Double Agent,” Ko is promoting the new horror movie “Apartment,” due out on July 6.
The movie will have a fair bit of nonsensical comedies and martial arts scenes." The film has a budget of one hundred million yuan (roughly $12.5 million US), and it is expected to have a ton of special fx shots.
The new movie portrays the story about Lee Soo-hyun, a Korean who died after saving a drunken Japanese man who fell on a subway track at a subway station in Tokyo five years ago.
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 Fantastic Four The Movie Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Fantastic Four, The (2005) A group of astronauts gain superpowers after a cosmic radiation exposure and must use them to oppose the plans of their...
Fantastic latex figure can be stretched to THREE TIMES its original size, and returns back to its normal form on its own.
Natalie Portman was utterly fantastic in this movie...all the emotional attachment you felt should've been possible between her and Anakin was here in this movie, in spades.
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 Fantastic Four (2005) - MovieWeb
Together, they use their unique powers to explore the strange aspects of the world, and to foil the evil plans by the likes of Doctor Doom, which is who the villain of this film will be.
Even as they deal with the various threats that arise to threaten Earth's peace, the Four must also deal with the pressures of fame as the world's most famous superheroes, and the realities of being a super-powered family.
November 11th, 2005: The legendary comics creator discusses the Fantastic Four, his favorite comic to film adaptations and what he would have done differently with Daredevil.
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 Prepare for the Fantastic || The Fantastic Four Fanlisting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
If you'd like to learn a little more about the movie, click here.
If your a fan of the Fantastic Four, have a look around the site and don't forget to join!
You may remember the current layout as it was used as my collective layout when the movie first came out.
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 Fantastic Four (2005)
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