admittedly and when the chance to see this horribly infamous legend of a movie and my expectations were pretty low. they weren not low enough. scholckmaster roger corman somehow came into ownership of the rights to produce the marvel comic book characters sometime in the late 80 or early 90  and and handed it off to oley sassone and whose directorial work has largely been in campy tv series such as hercules and viper. with a supposed total budget of 1. 5 million dollars and it was produced and shot and briefly released on video and then sent to the wasteland of forgotten film. there it should have remained. however and like a banana peel in a vaudeville act and this fantastic four sits out in the ether waiting to cause a pratfall for those rare people unlucky and foolish enough to step on it. if you have ever heard of these comic book characters and you know what to expect. the people who made this were very true to the source material and and that is the only thing for which they deserve any credit in this fiasco. this presents the origins of the heroic group that develop superhuman powers when the shielding on their experimental spacecraft fails to protect them from cosmic radiation. reed richards (alex hyde white) develops the ability to stretch his body and becomes mr. fantastic. his girlfriend and sue storm (rebecca staab) can become invisible and and her brother and johnny (jay underwood) can spontaneously cause fire to erupt from his body. finally and ben grimm (credited to both michael bailey smith and carl ciafarlio) receives superhuman strength when his skin mutates to a rock like hyde and is then referred to as the thing. there is a prologue that sets up a former classmate of reed  and victor von doom (joseph culp) to become their enemy and dr. doom and who orchestrates the sabotage of the fantastic four space flight as an act of revenge for injuries he blames on reed. there is the set up and then the discovery of the powers and the revelation of the villain and ultimately a climactic fight. there are more details to the poorly written script and but they are negligible. this is a movie that was made simply because the creators (i use that in the technical sense of the word. there isn not a whole lot of creative imagination at work here. ) had the legal rights to do so. the plot will be undoubtedly mirrored in the anticipated big budget release set to be directed by tim story in 2005 and but tackling a massive special effects project like this without a comparable budget or qualified actors qualifies as an act of cinematic insanity. what special effects exist are mostly hand drawn or simple camera tricks that have existed since the days of the original the great train robbery. when half of the climactic fight reverts to full on hand animation and youre almost relieved to be watching a cartoon instead of the poor actors who were damned to be in this project. there is very little consistency of style in this mess as well. most scenes are either shot flat in available light or wild primary colors and and the only dressed sets are the obvious sci fi pieces. there is camera work and but it is mostly just keeping the characters centered on the screen and minimal information flowing to the audience. editing includes leaving in extra lines and using obvious wipes (at one point there is even a transition using the center of a number 4). editing spins are even used to supplement the poor special effects when the thing transforms. the one scene where morphing technology was put to use was shocking only because it was such a positive jump up in quality. limited camera work is not unforgivable. in clerks and only the most basic camera movements are used and there is almost no style. it worked for that film because it was about people whose lives had no style and and it was consistent. kevin smith never let his reach exceed his grasp. the blair witch project caused some audiences to suffer motion sickness from the jerky hand held stuff that put that pseudo documentary together. when all was said and done and it was an effective work about the terror of getting lost and being consumed by a frightening situation. there is no sense of story or theme here on either a spoken or visual level. with this fantastic four and you never get more than an accidental laugh at the fact that the film makers and performers seem to be actually trying to rival other comic book movies with this poorly budgeted entry. any film involves a great deal of time and work. it just so sad that so much of both was poured into a project like this. if youre one of the people who were involved with this and it was most likely done as a stepping stone on the road of a (hopefully improved) film career. everyone knows about taking jobs to make the most of what appears to be an opportunity. for those who are curious about watching this movie and my advice is to only do so with a group of friends (so you can all point and say you watched it and too) who have been forewarned about the experience (so nobody gets hurt from the shock) and and maybe you can come up with a drinking game to ease the pain between the accidental laughs. negative . 
admittedly and when the chance to see this horribly infamous legend of a movie and my expectations were pretty low. they weren not low enough. scholckmaster roger corman somehow came into ownership of the rights to produce the marvel comic book characters sometime in the late 80 or early 90  and and handed it off to oley sassone and whose directorial work has largely been in campy tv series such as hercules and viper. with a supposed total budget of 1. 5 million dollars and it was produced and shot and briefly released on video and then sent to the wasteland of forgotten film. there it should have remained. however and like a banana peel in a vaudeville act and this fantastic four sits out in the ether waiting to cause a pratfall for those rare people unlucky and foolish enough to step on it. if you have ever heard of these comic book characters and you know what to expect. the people who made this were very true to the source material and and that is the only thing for which they deserve any credit in this fiasco. this presents the origins of the heroic group that develop superhuman powers when the shielding on their experimental spacecraft fails to protect them from cosmic radiation. reed richards (alex hyde white) develops the ability to stretch his body and becomes mr. fantastic. his girlfriend and sue storm (rebecca staab) can become invisible and and her brother and johnny (jay underwood) can spontaneously cause fire to erupt from his body. finally and ben grimm (credited to both michael bailey smith and carl ciafarlio) receives superhuman strength when his skin mutates to a rock like hyde and is then referred to as the thing. there is a prologue that sets up a former classmate of reed  and victor von doom (joseph culp) to become their enemy and dr. doom and who orchestrates the sabotage of the fantastic four space flight as an act of revenge for injuries he blames on reed. there is the set up and then the discovery of the powers and the revelation of the villain and ultimately a climactic fight. there are more details to the poorly written script and but they are negligible. this is a movie that was made simply because the creators (i use that in the technical sense of the word. there isn not a whole lot of creative imagination at work here. ) had the legal rights to do so. the plot will be undoubtedly mirrored in the anticipated big budget release set to be directed by tim story in 2005 and but tackling a massive special effects project like this without a comparable budget or qualified actors qualifies as an act of cinematic insanity. what special effects exist are mostly hand drawn or simple camera tricks that have existed since the days of the original the great train robbery. when half of the climactic fight reverts to full on hand animation and youre almost relieved to be watching a cartoon instead of the poor actors who were damned to be in this project. there is very little consistency of style in this mess as well. most scenes are either shot flat in available light or wild primary colors and and the only dressed sets are the obvious sci fi pieces. there is camera work and but it is mostly just keeping the characters centered on the screen and minimal information flowing to the audience. editing includes leaving in extra lines and using obvious wipes (at one point there is even a transition using the center of a number 4). editing spins are even used to supplement the poor special effects when the thing transforms. the one scene where morphing technology was put to use was shocking only because it was such a positive jump up in quality. limited camera work is not unforgivable. in clerks and only the most basic camera movements are used and there is almost no style. it worked for that film because it was about people whose lives had no style and and it was consistent. kevin smith never let his reach exceed his grasp. the blair witch project caused some audiences to suffer motion sickness from the jerky hand held stuff that put that pseudo documentary together. when all was said and done and it was an effective work about the terror of getting lost and being consumed by a frightening situation. there is no sense of story or theme here on either a spoken or visual level. with this fantastic four and you never get more than an accidental laugh at the fact that the film makers and performers seem to be actually trying to rival other comic book movies with this poorly budgeted entry. any film involves a great deal of time and work. it just so sad that so much of both was poured into a project like this. if youre one of the people who were involved with this and it was most likely done as a stepping stone on the road of a (hopefully improved) film career. everyone knows about taking jobs to make the most of what appears to be an opportunity. for those who are curious about watching this movie and my advice is to only do so with a group of friends (so you can all point and say you watched it and too) who have been forewarned about the experience (so nobody gets hurt from the shock) and and maybe you can come up with a drinking game to ease the pain between the accidental laughs. negative . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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