"Fantastic Four" fun
We went to see "Fantastic Four" today. Plenty of the reviews have been...well...not that great for the film. Ordinarily, this would be reccomendation enough for me, but since it's a 'comic book movie' I was pretty much gonna see it anyway.
I'm not a big FF fan (or of teams in general) so I had the advantage of not being horrified by any changes to the characters for the film. I understand the reasons to get Dr. Doom involved in the Four's origin so as to save some time. No biggie to me. Never cared much for him, either.
That said, since I didn't have any 'baggage' about what I thought the film should be, I was able to go in with a pretty open mind and managed to really enjoy it. It's a nice change from the attempts and deep, angsty superhero movies crowding the screens these days. The audience seemed into, too, laughing in the right places and everything.
The FF have a different dynamic than other heroes - they're practically a family (since the Human Torch and Invisible Girl are siblings and eventually Invisible Girl and Mr. Fantastic get married) and as such those relationships affect how they react to what's going on around them. The Four give us the range of reactions to having powers - from Johnny "Human Torch" Storm's sheer joy in his newfound abilities to Ben "The Thing" Grimm's depression over the changes that have occured which caused him to lose his wife.
In between them, there's Reed "Mr. Fantastic" Richards's sense of responsibility for what's happened to all of them (especially his friend Ben) and Sue "Invisible Girl" Storm's role as the 'mother' of the group - particularly in dealing with the good-natured pranks Johnny is always playing on Ben.
Overall...it was a lot of fun. A good popcorn adventure movie.
I'm not a big FF fan (or of teams in general) so I had the advantage of not being horrified by any changes to the characters for the film. I understand the reasons to get Dr. Doom involved in the Four's origin so as to save some time. No biggie to me. Never cared much for him, either.
That said, since I didn't have any 'baggage' about what I thought the film should be, I was able to go in with a pretty open mind and managed to really enjoy it. It's a nice change from the attempts and deep, angsty superhero movies crowding the screens these days. The audience seemed into, too, laughing in the right places and everything.
The FF have a different dynamic than other heroes - they're practically a family (since the Human Torch and Invisible Girl are siblings and eventually Invisible Girl and Mr. Fantastic get married) and as such those relationships affect how they react to what's going on around them. The Four give us the range of reactions to having powers - from Johnny "Human Torch" Storm's sheer joy in his newfound abilities to Ben "The Thing" Grimm's depression over the changes that have occured which caused him to lose his wife.
In between them, there's Reed "Mr. Fantastic" Richards's sense of responsibility for what's happened to all of them (especially his friend Ben) and Sue "Invisible Girl" Storm's role as the 'mother' of the group - particularly in dealing with the good-natured pranks Johnny is always playing on Ben.
Overall...it was a lot of fun. A good popcorn adventure movie.
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