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- Todd McCarthy, Hollywood ReporterFantastic Four feels like a 100-minute trailer for a movie that never happens.
Brian Lowry, VarietyFeels less like a blockbuster for this age of comics-oriented tentpoles than it does another also-ran -- not an embarrassment, but an experiment that didn't gel.
Tim Grierson, Screen InternationalAfter battling months of bad buzz, "Fantastic Four" emerges as a wounded animal of a superhero movie, only rarely showing flashes of the darker, more emotional breed of Marvel film it's trying to be.
Alonso Duralde, TheWrapDirector Josh Trank has assembled a quartet of engaging, charismatic performers and stranded them in a miasma of exposition and set-up. So much time is spent putting the pieces on the board that there's barely any time to play with them.
Emma Dibdin, Digital SpyIn the face of such bad buzz, it's hard not to feel a little sorry for the finished product, which is a harmless and endearingly cartoonish throwback to more simple comic book movie times.