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Jul 8, 2005 7:39 am US/Central

Fantastic Four

Richard Roeper: "Skip It"

(CBS) If Batman and Spider-Man are the Lennon and McCartney of super-heroes, the "Fantastic Four" are kind of like the Monkees. That's the first problem with this movie. If you're not a comic book geek, do you even know what's so fantastic about these four?

The makers of "Fantastic Four" must have realized they were dealing with some pretty silly, lesser super-heroes, as this is more comedy than action adventure. After being exposed to an electrical storm, four scientists discover they can do some pretty neat tricks.

That's Michael Chiklis as the Thing, and who knew the Thing was so short? And whose idea was it to turn Jessica Alba into the Invisible Woman? When I see a Jessica Alba movie, I want her to be visible woman at all times!

And that's some guy named Ioan Gruffudd as Mr. Fantastic, and he's Mr. Bland in this movie. In the meantime, Chris Evans overacts as the cocky Human Torch and Julian McMahon is your standard-issue Eurotrash villain as Doctor Doom.

The Fantastic Four spend most of the movie trying to find a cure before realizing that it might to be fun to be fantastic. Maybe for them, but not for us. Rated PG-13, this is a limp, second-rate comic book movie about second-rate superheroes. Skip It.

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