HOW TERRIBLE ARE ANT-MAN AND FANTASTIC FOUR?

ANT-MAN is not very good. It's like a bag of cheetos - some taste going down, an unpleasant residue left behind, and in an hour you've completely forgotten about it and are hungry again.

Henry Pym is old (and played by Michael Douglas), Ant Man is someone else, and the villain is Yellowjacket (who in the comics is just another persona of Henry Pym once he stops being Ant Man and Giant Man). Henry Pym is an important character in the Marvel Universe especially as part of the Avengers. The story arc wherein he was framed by Egghead and went to prison and was divorced by his wife the Wasp is one of the greatest in Avengers history. It would have made sense to introduce him in the last Avengers film especially since Ultron, the villain of the most recent Avengers film, is his creation in the comic.

Here the story they've come up with is not weighty enough to carry a film. Paul Rudd is beyond irritating (The only film I 've ever liked him in is ANCHORMAN and almost anyone could have played that role) and like most comic book origin movies nothing really happens until the end.  A lot of padded out backstory composed of equal parts cardboard exposition, lazy sentimentality until then

So that's the verdict a younger Hank Pym should have been introduced with the Wasp in The Avengers series. No need for a separate movie and especially not this one. Also the costumes look terrible and the special effects get numbing after awhile.

However, ANT-MAN looks like LA DOLCE VITA compared with the latest FANTASTIC FOUR film which aside from its complete lack of connection to any of the four's comic book history is just a terrible movie, maybe one of the worst I've ever seen. Boring, sloppy, uninteresting, poorly acted, poorly paced....I honestly can't say even one good word about it other than it's over.

Their new origin story which now involves alternate universes and all manner of other Sci Fi tropes is an uninteresting mess and the casting? An African American Human Torch? Well okay I guess. Sue Storm is a badly dyed blonde redhead? Ben Grimm, The Thing, is played by the dancing boy from BILLY ELLIOTT? Reed Richards looks nothing like Mr Fantastic – More like Robert Carradine’s character Lewis Skolnick from REVENGE OF THE NERDS. The worst is what they have done to Dr Doom. He appears for ten minutes at the end (in Doom form, the rest of the time he is a sullen nerd) and retains nothing of his iconic super villain status from the comics. Let’s make a rule – You have to know something about comics to make movies about them featuring their characters..

Hopefully, there won't be a sequel.

What's frustrating is I do think it is possible to make a good Fantastic Four film adaptation - just follow the comic book. The 2005 film was not bad. Maybe it would be better as a TV series?