The few people who wasted 100 minutes and valuable popcorn dollars on this $120 million sleeping pill already know just how bad this anomaly is, it's my desire here to warn all the others before they suffer the same fate. Just where did that $120 million production budget go? The effects were extremely lackluster, the script was woefully amateurish, and the acting was I suppose, about the best you can expect when you are handed garbage like this. What you end up with is a terribly uninteresting and excruciatingly slow ride with zero payoff. At least the previous 2 films (flawed as they were) had a discernible plot, and a spirit of fun. Imagine this movie as a very very long walk down a dark hallway. You reach a room at the end, only to flip on the light switch and find it empty. Pathetic.
As a long-time fan of these characters I can say without hesitation that these four characters (five if you count Doom) resemble the comic book characters only on a superficial level. If Fox (or later Marvel, let's hope!) wants a profitable and entertaining franchise they need to go to the source material that made these characters great to begin with. Luckily I can help them right here. What you want is a trilogy of films. The first feature, running about 2.5 hours would adapt the actual back stories of Doom and the FF found in the following comics, Fantastic Four (1961) #1 and 11 (origin portions only), the Doom back-up origin story in FF Annual 2. Any competent screenwriter would be able to tweak or update what's lacking in these early books. The second half of this movie could then adapt FF 39-40, a critically acclaimed classic. As for the sequel you need look no further than the "Unthinkable" storyline from FF 496-502. Finally, the last film in the trilogy would give us a faithful adaptation of the Galactus / Silver Surfer trilogy found in FF 48-50. This last one would then also give the filmmakers an opportunity to spin-off a series of Surfer movies starting with adapting Steve Englehart's great take on the character from 1987's Silver Surfer #1. The comics referenced above are classics which have stood the test of time, and if adapted wisely would practically guarantee success.
As a long-time fan of these characters I can say without hesitation that these four characters (five if you count Doom) resemble the comic book characters only on a superficial level. If Fox (or later Marvel, let's hope!) wants a profitable and entertaining franchise they need to go to the source material that made these characters great to begin with. Luckily I can help them right here. What you want is a trilogy of films. The first feature, running about 2.5 hours would adapt the actual back stories of Doom and the FF found in the following comics, Fantastic Four (1961) #1 and 11 (origin portions only), the Doom back-up origin story in FF Annual 2. Any competent screenwriter would be able to tweak or update what's lacking in these early books. The second half of this movie could then adapt FF 39-40, a critically acclaimed classic. As for the sequel you need look no further than the "Unthinkable" storyline from FF 496-502. Finally, the last film in the trilogy would give us a faithful adaptation of the Galactus / Silver Surfer trilogy found in FF 48-50. This last one would then also give the filmmakers an opportunity to spin-off a series of Surfer movies starting with adapting Steve Englehart's great take on the character from 1987's Silver Surfer #1. The comics referenced above are classics which have stood the test of time, and if adapted wisely would practically guarantee success.
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