This movie truly was a mess. The cgi was horrible, Doom looks ridiculous, there was no chemistry between the actors, the story was choppy and incoherent, definitely the worst movie I've seen in the theater in a long time.
Spoiler related observations:
[Show spoiler]After the movie my teenage daughter asked me, "Why were two 30 year old men at a high school science fair?". She didn't know they were supposed to still be in high school.
Before transporting themselves to the new dimension, they transport the worst looking cgi monkey in the history of cinema. I was setting there looking at it wondering why didn't they just use a real monkey? All it had to do was set in chair for a few seconds.
When Reed, Johnny, and Victor decide to transport themselves to the new dimension, they don't call up Sue to go with them who was instrumental to the project, instead Reed calls up Ben who hasn't been around in what I'm assuming is years, and evidently Johnny and Victor are fine with him coming along. Not to mention it's like four in the morning and Ben basically gets up in the middle of the night and comes along with no questions asked.
When they get to the new dimension, there is pulsating and glowing liquid all around, which they immediately go stick their hands in as if it were the green slime we used to make fart noises with when we were kids.
Reed's character is almost impossible to like. His decision to bring Ben along turned his buddy into a rock monster, Reed apologizes and pledges to fix him, but then bails to never be heard from again. I understand that he was working on a cure while away, but it would have been nice to not leave Ben hanging thinking his buddy had bailed on him.
When the scientist go back to the other dimension, they find Doom, who can barely walk and looks to be on his death bed. They transport him back to earth, where his limp and whatever ailments he had before are long gone, and now he can explode your head with telekinesis!
Doom basically just wants to go back home to his world in the other dimension, but old man Baxter feels he needs to stay on Earth, which earns old man Baxter a good ole telekinetic barbecuing. The whole thing rubs Victor the wrong way enough that somehow he teleports to Metropolis and steals one of the terraforming machines from Man of Steal, and begins to use it to suck the Earth into a black hole.
The Fantastic Four show up to stop him, and get their asses beat down in about 30 seconds. Reed crumples in one of the worst effects ever put on screen, but somehow he pulls himself together long enough to throw Doom into a rocky crevice stunning him for a few seconds. In that time they come to the realization that they can't defeat Doom individually, but together they might have a chance, at which point they basically do exactly the same maneuvers they used before, but because they do them together this time they work. Ben punches Doom into the terraforming beam, where Doom disintegrates, and then they jump into the beam where lucky for them they are transported back to earth.
Evidently a good old battle was just the cure Ben needed to get over his hostility to Reed for turning him into a rock monster, because while only a few moments earlier in the film Ben had told Reed they were no longer friends, now he tells Reed, as well as Johnny and Sue, that everything is just fantastic, which of course gives Reed the idea to name the gang The Fantastic Four!
I know these are simplified versions of events from the film, but I think they are accurate enough to express why I thought the movie wasn't very good.
1.5/5 rounded up to a 2 for the poll.
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