So hard to find and yet so satisfyingly awful. The story = crap. The acting = more crap. The effects and make-up = craptastic! I think they blew the whole budget on the Torch flaming on.....once. If you like movies that are so bad that they are unintentionally funny, this is the film for you.

Another awful comic book film.

not very good ... went to see this, half at the insistence of my son, and half bc i'm a geek who loves comic book movies. still, it was overall worse than i expected going in. one-dimensional characters, and an extremely boring villain do not make for a good time. michael chiklis as the thing was probably the one redeeming thing is this film. yes, alba is hot, but she's boring as anything, and the ultra-egotistical human torch has been done so many times in other films, and much better too.

One of those it's so bad it's actually good movies.You just have to see it,if only for the "special effects".Hilarious!

Everything here blows. The acting, dialogue, effects, the costumes, all of it. The thing that pissed me off the most though was the horrible, generic, repetitive soundtrack. The scene with a heartbroken Thing wandering through the streets while the tender music plays is classic. I just don't think Fantastic Four is a comic that will ever transition to live action well.

Better than the new one, at least.

You guys know that this movie was only made so the film company could retain the rights to the Fantastic Four, right? It was never intended for release.

I have a friend who I used to talk to about this movie with before either of us saw it. We both knew the score on how it was never released due to Marvel Comics' financial problems. We both wanted to see it, because we saw a trailer in which The Thing looked really cool, so eventually, the elusive film was found. Upon viewing, we discovered that it was a very good thing it was never released. In all movie quality respects, it's like watching an Ed Wood movie. Crap!

Twice as good as the new version, but that's not saying much at all.

MUCH better than the new FF movies, and truer to the comic book. The cast actually play the parts with heart, as if they believe in them. Rebecca Staab especially is the perfect embodiment of Sue Storm, and Hyde-White is quite credible as Reed. Of course it has lousy effects; it's an unfinished "B" movie, made for under a million bucks as a cynical attempt by the film company to hold on to the rights. It was never intended to be released.Whaddaya want for nuthin?

This movie is very bad. The production value is horrible and the writing and direction is that of an old 1970's cheesy television series. However, few people are able to find this flick, much less experience it. It's practically a black market purchase. It's like the long lost Star Wars Christmas Special.

God I hated this, despite chiklis, whose performance in "The shield" is sheer genius

An abortion of a film that makes its modern remake look like the Godfather. Not even watchable as a TV movie. Everyone involved should have been flogged.

Just a blip in the radar screen of horrendous comic book movies of yesterday

This is an elusive beast, but I managed to track it down online last year and could only stomach about half an hour of it. I scanned the whole thing to get an idea of what I would be 'missing out' on, and I'm glad I stopped before wasting anymore time. Sad that the no-name idiot might be a better Sue Storm than Alba, but other than that, this wretched disaster has nothing going for it. It's not even fun to watch in the car accident kind of way. The FX work is brutal, and the movie is even worse.