Fantastic Four (2005) Critic Reviews

A funky, fun film version of the famous Marvel superhero concoction, one of the earliest of the revisionist wave of supes and in some ways the most lovable or at least the most knowable.Read the full review

Frustrating because it doesn't seem far removed from a wholly enjoyable motion picture, but the tempo's off, beats are missed, and the production ends up sounding out-of-tune.Read the full review

A wildly uneven, sporadically slapdash action-adventure that amuses in fits and starts.Read the full review

Fails to be anything more than a mild summertime diversion. Based on the Marvel comic book, it's a prototypical air conditioner movie.Read the full review

There's nothing terribly fantastic about this ho-hum futuristic foray.Read the full review

A garish mediocrity.Read the full review

This "Four" ain't so "Fantastic."Read the full review

This clumsy, cheesy, chintzy adaptation, with its F/X that look dated the moment you see them, is like something left over from the '60s.Read the full review

Compared with the psychological probing and spiritual brooding of "Batman Begins," Fantastic Four is proudly dumb, loud and inconsequential.Read the full review