PROOF THAT A GOOD MOVIE CANNOT BE MADE FROM A BAD COMIC BOOK.
To be fair I'v always hated the Fantastic Four. As a small child I was disgusted that the one girl on the team was always kissing "Mr. Fantastic's" backside and telling her cool brother to cool it. As a teenager I found Mr. Fantastic to be an annoying martinet, and his behaviour intolerant and demeaning. As an adult comic-book reader I discovered that I wasn't wrong. Mr. Fantastic really is selfish and annoying, Susan ("Invisible Girl") does kiss a lot of backside when she's not trying to manipulate her brother into doing what the boss man says, the Human Torch (the brother), while being a bit irresponsible, is the best thing about the team, and The Thing, bless his heart, is the only one who does any work and is constantly mocked for it.
Really, what are the Fantastic Four if not a 1950's morality tale, complete with a grey-templed squarejaw version of "The Man"? A world where the woman is either hot or unseen and who's only battle powers include protecting folks from unpleasantness and shooting dirty looks. The rebel against society has cool flame powers and flight but he's constantly being forced to conform and is held hostage to the team by his love for his sister. The Thing represents "persons of color" and is consistantly regarded as a second-class person. The whole premise is horrible and shouldn't have been made into a movie in 2005. There's nothing there to make into a good film. Even the villian is uninteresting, being nothing more than an envious evil reflection of Mr. Fantastic himself.
FANTASTIC FOUR is a film which has a lot of flash and motion (and some great graphic design) but dosn't mean anything at all. The society this super team supported was destroyed by that little cultural revolution we had in the '60's and '70's. Trying to make a feature-length film about a system no one really cares about ends up being a hollow waste of everyone's time and money. So basically I still hate the Fantastic Four. This movie just confirmed it.
