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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The Fantastic Four get treated reverently, but not seriously, in this modified retelling of the story, but then it's hard to take any one seriously who goes to work for Dr. Victor Von Doom and Doom Industries. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Even if you can get past the acting -- and in the case of the beautiful, blank Alba, that's asking a lot -- the film just sits there, not exactly torturous, but never very exciting, either. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: It certainly looks stunning, and there's even a try at injecting some human drama and strong emotion into the action stew. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Marvel Comics continues to empty out its stable of superheroes with this entertaining tale. Read more
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: When the Four finally use their different powers together to fight Doctor Doom, it's enough to get you past the torpor of Origin Movie Syndrome and make you hope for a sequel that gets right down to business. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: If there was ever any doubt that action scenes depend more on context than flash, Fantastic Four proves it. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: An overinflated B-movie with no grace, no subtext, no wit, and featuring beefcake/cheesecake actors who look like they've been plucked from the soaps. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Bland performances throughout. And really, who wants to make Jessica Alba the invisible girl? What a bad idea. I want her to be visible at all times. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Take the movie on its own lighthearted terms and, chances are, you'll be taken in. Read more
Michael Senft, Arizona Republic: The radiation-altered members of the Fantastic Four don't show their humanity. Rather, the superpowered quartet is little more than a bland collection of four-color caricatures. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A bad superhero comedy that takes its time going nowhere. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: More superhero sitcom than comic book adventure, the movie lacks a strong, dramatic through-line. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: [The writers are] so busy setting up the premise that they barely get around to exploiting it. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: The kind of don't-ask- too-many-questions action-hero movie where the humor is tasty and the FX are wicked-cool. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: This clumsy, cheesy, chintzy adaptation, with its F/X that look dated the moment you see them, is like something left over from the '60s, the heyday of Marvel's longest-running series. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Rarely terrible, let alone memorable, it's a brutally average piece of disposable summer entertainment that fades from the mind like some hazy, half-sleeping dream. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: At their best, the results have a comic zip that the X-Men pictures have largely lacked. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Sad, then, to see that the Marvel rag that elevated the human element in the pow-biff-bam of the superhero world has been transposed into the most plastic of comic-to-movie adaptations yet. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The comic book adventure is a fun, escapist change of pace from all the politically weighted popcorn fare on the scene this season. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: You don't expect realism from a comic-book movie, but you do want the characters to seem larger than life. Here, they look like contestants at a costume party. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Compared with the psychological probing and spiritual brooding of Batman Begins, Fantastic Four is proudly dumb, loud and inconsequential. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A popcorn popper, a cinematic sugar buzz. And blessedly so. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This movie is more like a B-grade comic book adaptation than the A-list production it should have been. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The really good superhero movies, like Superman, SpiderMan 2 and Batman Begins, leave Fantastic Four so far behind that the movie should almost be ashamed to show itself in the same theaters. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: It exists largely to entertain and delight, which used to be precisely what summer blockbusters were engineered to do. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 'Fantastic Four' could have been hot, but in the hands of some studio blockheads, the premise is stretched so thin that it disappears. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A not-so-bad mindless bit of camp escapism that doesn't try to eclipse its dime-store comic book roots. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Fantastic it ain't, but not bad it sort of is. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: There's nothing terribly fantastic about this ho-hum futuristic foray. Read more
Joe Leydon, Variety: A wildly uneven, sporadically slapdash action-adventure that amuses in fits and starts. Read more
Matt Singer, Village Voice: Before the inevitable and surprisingly anticlimactic battle with Doom, we are treated to two extreme-sports demonstrations, several training montages, [and] an ill-advised love triangle. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The whole thing lacks oomph and identity. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: A funky, fun film version of the famous Marvel superhero concoction. Read more