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Fantastic Four

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Fantastic Four

PG-13

Released Aug 7, 2015

1h 40m

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Adventure

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

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Transported to an alternate universe, four young outsiders gain superhuman powers as they alter their physical form in shocking ways. Reed Richards becomes Mr. Fantastic, able to stretch and twist his body at will, while pal Ben Grimm gains immense strength as the Thing. Johnny Storm becomes the Human Torch, able to control and project fire, while his sister Sue becomes the Invisible Woman. Together, the team must harness their new abilities to prevent Doctor Doom from destroying the Earth.

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Dull and downbeat, this Fantastic Four proves a woefully misguided attempt to translate a classic comic series without the humor, joy, or colorful thrills that made it great.

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Kristy Puchko

CBR

"Fantastic Four" is a profound mess. It's not fun. It's not exciting. It's far from action-packed. And it's most certainly not fantastic.

May 18, 2018

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

A poorly constructed, ineptly executed, flatfooted piece of Branded Product that plays as though it were written by a piece of software fed every superhero movie script to date and instructed to synthesize them.

May 27, 2016

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

A lightweight and basically unnecessary attempt to once again bring some cinematic life to one of the lesser teams in the Marvel Universe.

Rated: 1.5/4

Aug 13, 2015

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Trust me when I say this – reading about the movie is a lot more fun than watching it.

Rated: 1.5/5

Aug 20, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

All build-up and no pay-off, Fantastic Four attempts to reboot the popular Marvel superhero team with new actors, a fresh young director, and a studio whose rocky track record with Marvel properties doesn't promote confidence.

Rated: 1.5/4

May 29, 2022

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Kip Mooney

College Movie Review

Its talented cast is wasted in a big lead-up to a whole bunch of nothing.

Rated: C-

Aug 29, 2021

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Brandon S

4 stars... that's fant4stic Wait... say that again? Guys I've got it It's peak

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/02/25

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JJ S

What is wrong with this Its a masterpiece compared to the original 2

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/28/25

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Andrew T

I think the only superhero movie I've seen that's worse than this is Man of Steel. But then again, if forced to pick one to rewatch, I'd probably pick that one. Sure the previous F4s were dumb, but at least they were mildly fun. Actually, compared to this, they're the most fun I could ever hope to have in my life. This movie is poorly acted, lifeless, boring, self-serious, visually dark, ugly, dull, monotonous, one-noted, pathetic, pathetic, and absolutely fantastically pathetic. It takes 40 minutes for them to turn into mutants. And they don't even team up until the last 10 minutes or so. It's shocking how bad this is. And it's not even remotely comically bad, because there's nothing to laugh at.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/24/25

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Vandelay R

In light of the new Fantastic Four movie coming out, I thought I'd finally check out this movie since I like to check out movies that people tell me not to see because it's so bad, so I figured why not? SPOILER ALERT if you even give a sh*t As expected, NOT GREAT. It's just a waste of time, a waste of money, it's a waste of a great cast. Don't even bother with this crap that tries to be like a serious dark gritty movie despite the fact the main villain is called Dr. Doom. It's like it's embarrassed to even be a Fantastic four movie, they don't even call themselves that at all, they almost do at the end but then it ends right there. At least the previous two movies had some sort of effort put into it and didn't take themselves too seriously since let's be honest the Fantastic Four is kind of a silly concept (no offense to the fans) this just doesn't have any of that. Like there's so many times where instead of watching "our heroes" do any crime fighting or doing cool things, you just watch random people talking blandly while all that cool stuff happens on a tv in the background, who the hell would want to watch that?? Just don't even bother with this one. The cast is great and I don't blame any one of them for this Fantastic failure, they deserved better than this and so did the fans. Marvel thankfully got the movie rights for this property from Fox and I hope for the love of f**k that they just go all out there and make at the very least a tolerable movie. The trailer for the new movie looks pretty damn good so far so let's hope that it lives up to our expectations.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/23/25

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Movie M

Makes Madame Web look like Avengers Endgame. Truly the worst comic book movie I have ever seen.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/23/25

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Faiz D

May just be the worst comic book movie I have ever seen.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/13/25

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Josh Trank

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Reed Richards

Michael B. Jordan

Johnny Storm

Kate Mara

Sue Storm

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Synopsis

Transported to an alternate universe, four young outsiders gain superhuman powers as they alter their physical form in shocking ways. Reed Richards becomes Mr. Fantastic, able to stretch and twist his body at will, while pal Ben Grimm gains immense strength as the Thing. Johnny Storm becomes the Human Torch, able to control and project fire, while his sister Sue becomes the Invisible Woman. Together, the team must harness their new abilities to prevent Doctor Doom from destroying the Earth.

Director: Josh Trank
Producer: Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzer, Gregory Goodman
Screenwriter: Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg, Josh Trank
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: TSG Entertainment, Marv Films, Constantin Film, Moving Picture Company, Marvel Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Kinberg Genre
Rating: PG-13 (Sci-Fi Action Violence|Language)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 7, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 19, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $56.0M
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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