Exposed to a mysterious cosmic storm that bestows super powers upon them, a crew on a cosmic energy experiment become super heroes overnight.
17 March 1975, Smithers, British Columbia, Canada
8 May 1985, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
18 September 1961, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
31 January 1977, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
19 December 1969, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
13 June 1981, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
30 October 1970, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
30 August 1963, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
13 August 1960, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 May 1958, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
9 April 1978, California, USA
August 03, 2015
Lee and Kirby built Marvel Comics on the foundation of the FF and it's no stretch to say this franchise could still be going strong a decade later with a better opening act.
September 26, 2005
A garish mediocrity.
July 12, 2005
Before the inevitable and surprisingly anticlimactic battle with Doom, we are treated to two extreme-sports demonstrations, several training montages, [and] an ill-advised love triangle.
April 25, 2007
Marvel Comics continues to empty out its stable of superheroes with this entertaining tale.
July 11, 2005
Bland performances throughout. And really, who wants to make Jessica Alba the invisible girl? What a bad idea. I want her to be visible at all times.
April 29, 2009
Some comics just shouldn't be turned in to movies...
April 16, 2009
Director Tim Story ("Barbershop") sets an uneven tempo for the embarrassingly clunky script by Michael France ("Hulk") and Mark Frost ("Storyville").
March 22, 2011
Fantastic Four is actually very true to its source material - often literally so - but generally misses the spirit entirely.
April 26, 2011
Fantastic Four is terribly miscast. It's poorly written, visually uninteresting, and worst of all, boring. The film drags considerably. There are huge gaps without any action and it brings the pacing to an unbearable crawl.
October 18, 2008
The film is made in the internet equivalent of capital letters and its simplistic morality stands out on the big screen more so than on the small page.
June 24, 2006
Fantastic it most certainly ain't.
July 08, 2005
It exists largely to entertain and delight, which used to be precisely what summer blockbusters were engineered to do.
