Fantastic Four: Awful reviews, but should I still go see it?
"So much...is bungled with inept storytelling and watered-down dialogue, and Story is so powerless to right the course, that Fantastic Four winds up more dopey than fun."-- Peter Canavese, GROUCHO REVIEWS
"This new adaptation is sorely lacking in nearly everything that made FF such a blast. It's poorly acted, written and directed."-- Rick Curnutte, THEFILMJOURNAL.COM (OHIO)
"An overinflated B-movie with no grace, no subtext, no wit, and featuring beefcake/cheesecake actors who look like they've been plucked from the soaps."-- David Edelstein, SLATE
Compared with the psychological probing and spiritual brooding of Batman Begins, Fantastic Four is proudly dumb, loud and inconsequential.--A.O. Scott, New York TimesAs a kid, I didn't really collect FF so I'm not as emotionally attached to the film's success or failure as I would have been to Batman and Spiderman. Still, it would have been cool if FF did get better reviews. Of course, I also ignored poor reviews for The Punisher and rented it as part of our Netflix pick. Sadly, I should have heeded the advice, even if I hadn't paid full price for it. I felt like I had wasted a whole evening...
I'm leaning towards waiting for it on Netflix.
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