Fantastic
Four takes the Marvel super heroes back to the drawing board and re-boots the
series with a younger and hipper cast of characters. Miles Teller (Whiplash)
plays Reed Richards. The movie shows him as a young boy in elementary school
who, along with his best friend Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell), is already working on
his invention for time teleportation. Rounding out the cast’s lead characters
are Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station), who plays Johnny Storm, and his
adopted sister, Susan Storm, is played by Kate Mara (American Horror Story).
The new cast
seems more age appropriate to play a group of wide-eyed, young scientists who
work together to build a full scale time teleportation machine. The team’s goal
is to travel to a different dimension and bring back the mysteries of the
universe. Enter Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell) who’s original design for a time
teleportation machine failed. He joins the team and immediately becomes rivals
with Reed Richards, who not only figures out the mystery of time teleportation,
he also becomes his rival for the affections of the lovely Susan Storm.
To prevent
the government from using their completed machine Richards, Von Doom and Johnny
Storm devise a plan to use the machine to become the first humans to travel to
an alternate dimension. Richards invites his best friend, Ben Grimm, to tag
along to watch his back. Instead the four travelers have a horrible accident
and they are transformed into humans with super human powers. Susan, who helps
the boys make the trip back safely, is also affected by the energy from the
dimension traveling ship. Von Doom doesn’t make it back with the group of
dimension travelers. However; he does show up again at the end of the movie to
play the villain that every super hero teams need to create some type of
conflict in a movie.
The contrived
situation for the villain was one of the issues I had with the movie. I would
have liked to have seen more of the “bad guy” in the movie. However; because the
movie has so much more to like than not, I’ll recommend it. Fantastic Four runs
for 100 minutes and is rated “PG-13” for sci-fi action and violence. On my “Hollywood
Popcorn Scale” I rate this movie a LARGE.
Hollywood
Hernandez 
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