Marvel Entertainment is known for their great movies, but The Fantastic Four was not as fantastic as it was made out to be. Paired with heavy, bland CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) and bad acting, this movie just barely made over the film’s budget of $120 million dollars.

The movie starts out with Reed Richard as a boy on career day, talking about how he is going to make a device that could transport things to other dimensions. They then skip ahead to his high school years at a science fair, with a device that could do the teleporting. This short backstory takes up about 20 minutes of the film.

Finally, we get to meeting the other characters besides Reed and his best friend, Ben. Sue Storm is, in this film, the adopted daughter of Franklin Storm, whose son is Johnny. They all begin to work on making Reed’s device big enough to transport people. This takes up a majority of the movie, and they don’t get their powers until we’re ¾ through the movie. In addition, the movie tried to throw in about an hour’s worth of action into the last 20-30 minutes.

I feel that it’s safe to assume that a majority of these mistakes were because at some point in filming, Fox changed many things about the movie, much to director Josh Trank’s  protests. He made tweets about how his cut of the movie would have made it infinitely better and how he wishes Fox hadn’t butt in.

The Fantastic Four characters (along with the X-Men) were bought by 20th Century Fox before Marvel began to make their own movies. Ever since Marvel started to make their movies, they have been trying to get the rights back to these characters, and, depending on whether Fox does make a sequel, Marvel could get the rights back.

Although this movie wasn’t very good, hopefully that means that Marvel will regain the rights to these characters and can make a better movie. There is a sequel planned for June 9, 2017, but it might be cancelled, due to the reviews this reboot received. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens. Until then, I would recommend that people shouldn’t spend their money to see this film and, if they’re a die hard Marvel fan like myself, wait to rent it for two dollars instead.