toboekohaku

This was a disaster of a movie.

There were a lot of behind the scenes problems from the stubborn producers and arrogant director.

What makes the Fantastic Four so special that they are a family... however this movie falls all that. The Fantastic Four don't feel like a family, they barely feel to be even a team or group since all four are not on screen at the same time until the very end. Even the Tim Story movies and the unreleased 1994 film were able to get the family or team part right as all four were on screen at the same time much as necessary.

Also it takes an hour for them to get their powers, a whole lot nothing happens as if the second act was missing, and there is only one action scene in the entire movie. This is suppose to be a superhero movies and action scenes are required. They were replaced with unnecessary boring scenes. Also the action scene against Dr. Doom just happens with no build up or reason why Dr. Doom went evil except he is the villain in the comics.

Also the editing was horrible, especially Kate Mara's hair/wig. They reshoot many of the scenes as if they didn't care to be consistent with her scenes. If the producers didn't care for the movie, why should we?

Some of the animation is good, but when the character animation where the movie suffers. Some of them look like newly plastic dolls that hasn't been painted yet.

The biggest problem is the writing. This takes in modern time, I would have no problem with this if it didn't create too many plot holes like why they couldn't use satellites to find the meteor instead of finding it by man. Another change that creates more plot holes is that Tarzan lost his parents when he was a kid, not a infant and somehow he forget what humans look like or how to speak English. Tarzan being a infant is understandable, but Tarzan being an old enough kid creates more problems. I could go on the questionable writing, but it will take too long.

For the rest of the writing, there is no originality. Some of the and writings are too similar to the Disney's version... including the Lion King.

Also the characters are terrible. Jane is a typical damsel in distress, Jane's father is pretty dumb like he doesn't take action when the villain, Clayton shooting at Jane's direction.

The last bad element of the movie is the acting. Most of the acting is lifeless and emotionless.

One annoying element is there is too much exposition with the narrator, especially when it is really unnecessary to the point it is insulting to the audience's intelligence.