I have to admit to not being a huge fan of The Fantastic Four growing up. Heck, I wasn’t a fan of any of the traditional superheroes, though I did like comics in general well enough. I just didn’t want to be reading the same ones as everyone else. So while I was acquainted with the basic premise, I didn’t have too much attachment to it. I completely understand that someone who was in love with the story may have ideas that are completely shattered if the movie wasn’t faithful to the original story.

When the four primary characters travel to the space station to research cosmic rays, they find that their calculations were off, and the rays are both more powerful than expected and closer. So they are bombarded by radiation that is unknown in origin and in power. This in turn gives them new powers, and they return to Earth with these powers, which transforms them into the superhero team that is known as The Fantastic Four.

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I expected a lot out of this movie – mostly because it had really good reviews from what I had seen. I can’t say that I was completely disappointed, but it didn’t really live up to its billing either. It wasn’t exactly a bank heist, but it wasn’t exactly as advertised, either.

The actors that you’d expect to do something wonderful (Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster) didn’t. They were okay, just not great. The others weren’t notable at all. I think that the movie tried to do too much. Had it cut out the extra pieces unrelated to the heist (and probably 30 minutes of its length), it probably would have been a lot better.

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