ROTTEN TOMATOES: No More Fantastic Four Sequels?

No More Fantastic Four Sequels?

by Jeff Giles | March 24, 2008

Summary

When the first two installments of a film franchise rack up nearly $300 million in domestic box office receipts, you'd tend to think a third chapter in the series would be inevitable. Back to Article

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dirtygerman03 writes:
on Mar 24 2008 11:31 AM

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That really wouldn't surprise me if they tried to reboot it. Again. I mean you could technically call this series a reboot since the original one from 1994 was so terrible it was never released.

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thereign writes:
on Mar 24 2008 11:44 AM

Rgallitan;

Did you ever read the FF when John Byrne was writing it? While not exactly the greatest writer in the world(and his art has declined as he's gotten older, which is odd), his stories were hardly "anything but fluff"... especially the issues where they teamed up w/Dr. Strange to fight Mephisto, and Reed had his arm broken WHILE it was stretched(demonic forces, magic, those type of things).

As for the Silver Surfer movie: written by J. Michael Straczynski(creator of Babylon 5), but haven't heard anything about that progress recently.

FF(both) sucked, mainly because there was no real respect for the history of ANY of the characters, especially the villains. While Iaon(pronounced Yo-Ann) Gruffud blew as Reed Richards, McMahon sucked totally as Von Doom. And don't even get me started on the hideous misstep that was Story's interpretation of Galactus. And since when does the Surfer get WEAKER when he's separated from his board? Gimme a break!

I'm sure the FF movies aren't really done...although it would be absolutely the best news I've heard in a month if it were true. One can only hope.

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Hamboner writes:
on Mar 24 2008 11:48 AM

The tone of these movies isn't all that far off of the tone of the comics. The FF to me were always a cheesy bunch and the movie was doomed to match that. You can't make a dark, action-packed psychodrama out of FF unless you disregard the source material... which of course would defeat the purpose of even putting them in a movie.

My problem is that Dr. Doom and Galactus were awesome and terrifying villains, and the movies completely dropped the ball. I suppose it was hard to make the villains so great while making the heroes so utterly uncharasmatic.

Through all of this, I feel bad for Michael Chiklis. He gets a lot of credit in my book for putting work into an utterly stupid role where he really had no chance of succeeding or receiving wide credit.

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simpsons-movie-ruled writes:
on Mar 24 2008 12:09 PM

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I heard(or probably read) somewhere that these movies were aimed to families. So that has to be the biggest screw-up they had, but I dont really know.
Anyways, WITHOUTH A FANTASTIC FOUR:3, THERE WONT BE A FANTASTIC FOUR:4!!!

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Timbo0075 writes:
on Mar 24 2008 12:22 PM

I'd check it out if there was a new one. I don't think the films are good but you know... It's a Marvel film the second one was entertaining, just not very clever ...

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collex writes:
on Mar 24 2008 12:33 PM

Well, I liked the first two movie. They are not great, but they are light-hearted, funny little movie. I've seen waaaay better superhero movies, but I've seenworst superhero movies too (hulk, electra).

I won't be sad if there is no FF4-3. A third one would maybe be too much. Especially if they do it more campy (batman and robin everyone?)

I never read much of FF4 comic book however, They were not my favorites at all.

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rambo- killer #2 writes:
on Mar 24 2008 12:34 PM

Good. These movies suck.

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blinkuldhc writes:
on Mar 24 2008 12:44 PM

Doom was unjustly portrayed. He was not the least bit intimidating, but more like a vain pretty boy with new toys. I gotta say, Chris Evans did a pretty good job with HT, however.

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High School With Money writes:
on Mar 24 2008 12:44 PM

If the chance came up for a Defenders movie, I'd like to see Evans return. Plus it would satisfy my Captain America quota as well. Win-win!

I thought his performance in London was really good - too bad his character was an extreme bag of doucheness.

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Saint Leonidas writes:
on Mar 24 2008 12:52 PM

God I hope they dont make another. The Fantastic Four movies are horrible.

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Bob* writes:
on Mar 24 2008 12:54 PM

I enjoyed the 1st one but I always saw it as a very popcorn flick that could be improved in the 2d one...well they didn't :/ It actually got worse.

A 3d one...I don't think they could make it better. Or maybe they do. In any case, personally, I don't care.

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deep_toot writes:
on Mar 24 2008 01:03 PM

YEAH!!! its finally over. im sad to say ive seen both movies, they could have done so much better. instead i felt that the movies were to kid friendly. the fantastic four movies were just horrible, so im glad that they dont make any more... if they are gonna make another one, then they should make them more violent, like how they originally were in the comics.... not all this stupid kid friendly crap

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Zeppo1 writes:
on Mar 24 2008 01:09 PM

The saddest part is that "Fantastic Four" could have been a fun and possibly even great series of films. There were several problems, however. First was some of the casting. I totally agree that Jessica Alba was poorly cast. She is beautiful, but not a good actress, and here she was undoubtedly miscast. The characterizations also didn't work. None of them (except Evans possibly) seemed glad to be there. Only the Human Torch found much advantage to be a superhero. Evans was the only one to breath much life into the his part. Lastly, the plots and direction wanted to treat the franchise as a family-oriented superhero movie. The filmmakers should have taken it into a bit more serious territory. It was too light and disengaging.

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hewpot writes:
on Mar 24 2008 01:27 PM

this is great news!!

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hellraiserlvr writes:
on Mar 24 2008 01:32 PM

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DrNvrmore, are you crazy? I saw both and the second one was way worse that the first one. Also, Alyssa Milano is probably one of the most underrated actresses of our time. Ok, her TV work is not that great, but have you ever seen "Fear", which was consequently Reese Witherspoon's and Mark Wahlburg's breakout movie. Milano was brilliant in it. She reminds me a lot of Rose McGowan - yeah, she can definitely cheese it up, but she can also be a fantastic actress.

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JHolmes17 writes:
on Mar 24 2008 01:33 PM

Oh, thank you God in Heaven!

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hellraiserlvr writes:
on Mar 24 2008 01:37 PM

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DrNvrmore, are you crazy? I saw both and the second one was way worse that the first one. Also, Alyssa Milano is probably one of the most underrated actresses of our time. Ok, her TV work is not that great, but have you ever seen "Fear", which was consequently Reese Witherspoon's and Mark Wahlburg's breakout movie. Milano was brilliant in it. She reminds me a lot of Rose McGowan - yeah, she can definitely cheese it up, but she can also be a fantastic actress.

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LordVapor writes:
on Mar 24 2008 02:00 PM

The only part of either movie that was cast properly was Human Torch, and Thing, thought both were done well...after that though, the rest sucked...like an earlier post said, Naomi Watts would have made a really really good Sue Storm I believe.

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bigbrother writes:
on Mar 24 2008 02:01 PM

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Ionn is a terrific actor in his element. See Amazing Grace or better yet the old Horatio Hornblower series. Also thought he outacted Clive Owen in King Arthur, but you're right he wasn't ideal for Reed Richards.

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bigbrother writes:
on Mar 24 2008 02:09 PM

"Do you hear that Richards? Mark it well, for it is the sound of your DOOM!!!!!" Where were the awesome Doom double entendre's? Dr. Doom is still my favorite villain in comics, but they failed to capture him at all in this series. Where was the justified arrogance? Where was the ruthlessness that made other highly respected villains afraid of him? He was more like a bastardized absorbing-man/electro crossover in this. Sad. I think they could have made a decent movie out of the third one if they'd added in Franklin and ratcheted the tension with the children in danger the first family of comics must unite to save him route.

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