Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four

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Fantastic Four

2015
Movie
100 min
English

Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

Insights

IMDb4.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes9%
Metacritic27/100
Google Users34%
Director: Josh TrankGenres: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Superhero

Plot Summary

Four young outsiders - Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm - gain superpowers after a dimensional teleportation experiment goes wrong. They must learn to harness their new abilities and work together to protect Earth from a familiar threat, Victor Von Doom.

Critical Reception

The 2015 reboot of the Fantastic Four was met with widespread critical derision and significant box office disappointment. Critics largely panned the film for its grim tone, underdeveloped characters, pacing issues, and a departure from the source material's optimistic spirit. Audience reception was similarly poor, contributing to its status as one of the most critically unsuccessful superhero films.

What Reviewers Say

  • A dreary and misguided attempt to reboot a beloved superhero property.

  • The film suffers from a lack of humor and a confusing plot.

  • Performances are largely wasted in a visually uninspired and narratively weak film.

Google audience: Audience reviews indicate a strong dislike for the film's dark and serious tone, which they felt was a poor fit for the Fantastic Four. Many viewers found the story confusing and poorly executed, with particular disappointment regarding the character development and the overall deviation from the comic books' established tone.

Awards & Accolades

Nominated for 5 Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Supporting Actor (Toby Kebbell), and Worst Prequel, Remake or Sequel. Won 1 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director.

Fun Fact

Director Josh Trank disowned the final cut of the film, stating that the studio made significant changes against his creative vision during post-production.

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

It'd have to be a pretty bad film for me to think it was worse than anything featuring Ioan Gruffudd, but ten years after that attempt - this 2015 version of the Marvel franchise is as bad as they get. Michael B. Jordan is in a class of his...

tournelhenry

tournelhenry

**Better remake but with unneccessary hate** Better story than the first film with less of the annoying hollywood romantics. Could do better with the humour. Accompanied with better graphics too as it's 2015. Of course, the mainstream...

Per Gunnar Jonsson

Per Gunnar Jonss...

I was actually not having great hopes for this movie giving how Hollywood have screwed up with a lot of my favourite super heroes (Spiderman, Fantastic Four, Dare Devil and a few others). Having said that maybe there was still a glimmer of ...

RodJ

RodJ

I just saw this and I wasn't expecting much as I have read some really negative reviews about it online and elsewhere. Honestly, I think they were wrong. It's not a bad film at all, just not as fast paced as the previous version which I qui...

Reno

Reno

> Too slow and dramatised superhero flick, but acceptable. I can't say I liked the previous films and not this one. In fact, I kind of enjoyed watching this reboot. It was much better than what I have heard about it. At least it did not ...

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