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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
It's fun to watch superheroes who aren't quite at ease with their abilities, but "The Incredibles" - last year's similarly themed animated film - is livelier and funnier.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
This "Four" ain't so "Fantastic."
63
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Frustrating because it doesn't seem far removed from a wholly enjoyable motion picture, but the tempo's off, beats are missed, and the production ends up sounding out-of-tune.
50
A wildly uneven, sporadically slapdash action-adventure that amuses in fits and starts.
63
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
I don't think it will seriously disappoint longtime fans, but it made me itchy as I watched it unfold in ways that the comics never did when I read them in the '60s.
50
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
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.
50
Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
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.
40
Dallas Observer by Robert Wilonsky
A comic-book movie unashamed of its roots, meaning it's unabashed about being silly, overwrought nonsense, which works to its benefit--so much so that you're almost rooting for it by the end.
30
Directing seems an unduly elegant term for what Hollywood hack du jour Tim Story (Barbershop, Taxi) does here -- the action scenes are so choppily constructed that their excitement disappears faster than the Invisible Woman.
38
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
There's nothing remotely fantastic about this Fantastic Four.