I’ve been curious about the new Fantastic Four movie in the “I-wonder-just-how-bad-it-will-be” kind of way.  No, I don’t relish anyone’s failures but given all the pre-release stories and strange (that’s putting it kindly) castings and creative decisions, including changing the group’s origin and radically (it appears) changing their main villain, I couldn’t see how this film would succeed.

It was like someone was given the Fantastic Four property and decided to remake the whole thing.  In other words, it appeared the Fantastic Four film featured the Fantastic Four in name only.

Well, looks like the film has finally been given to the critics and man, have the reviews been brutal.  Yesterday at Rotten Tomatoes the film was polling at a pathetic 14% positive among critics.

Well, it appears more critics have had their say and adding their opinions to the overall critical score the film, as of this minute, is polling at an even worse 8% positive.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fantastic_four_2015/

Ouch.

Perhaps what bothers me the most is that I like the Fantastic Four concept…the actual comic book concept, and feel good films can be made with the characters.  Looks like it wasn’t the case here.