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Mixed or average reviews- based on 227 Ratings

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 35
  2. Negative: 11 out of 35
  1. 75
    Blessedly unimportant, Fantastic Four cruises along on modest yet genuine comic-book pleasures.
  2. Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    60
    Michael Chiklis (of the cop show "The Shield") steals the movie as the agonized Thing.
  3. It's fun to watch superheroes who aren't quite at ease with their abilities, but "The Incredibles" - last year's similarly themed animated film - is livelier and funnier.
  4. It needed a star like Clooney at its center, and a character actor like Alan Rickman as Dr. Doom. You don't expect realism from a comic-book movie, but you do want the characters to seem larger than life.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 73 out of 142
  2. Negative: 48 out of 142
  1. SeanJ.
    10
    F4 was a great starting point for future movies they couldn't give you it all or make them masters of their power to start off. Every great story has to have a begenning. Expand
  2. BlazeC.
    8
    The movie was really good and I think that the critics are wrong. It was a great story with great graphics..... IT WAS A GREAT MOVIE !!!!!!
  3. I can understand why this was criticized too much, but to me personally I kinda thought it was decent. It still could've done better though. I do like the cast to the heroes and villain. The action scenes are pretty good, but the sad part is that there was only 2 scenes. Also, this whole movie does is always make pointless catch phrases so it would sound funny. They didn't have to make the whole movie humorous. I was surprised to the performance of Julian McMahon as Dr. Victor von Doom, he was better than I thought. But the thing I really disliked about this movie was the annoyance of Human Torch and complaining of The Thing. The Thing always **** and complained through out the whole friggin' film, I wanted Mr. Fantastic to use his elastic body to cover Things mouth. There was a few flaws with this film, but I still enjoy watching it. It's just not a great superhero alliance film, like X-Men, Watchmen, Kick-Ass, and The Avengers. Expand
  4. "Fantastic Four" is not fantastic as it sounds. Its not like "Spiderman" or "Iron Man". Its worse than them. Its terrible with diverse problems; starting from the acting to the visuals, everything is childish and a waste of time. Save yourself and watch something alse. Expand

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