Child genius Reed Richards dreams of building a teleportation machine. Together with his friend Ben Grimm, who’s ready to go along on any adventure, he spends years developing a prototype. During a demonstration at a scientific trade show, he meets Dr. Franklin Storm, who is impressed and invites Reed to join his team in Storm’s high tech lab and teach them about his work in teleportation. But their collaboration opens a portal to another dimension, when Reed, Ben, Storm’s children Sue and Johnny and the unstable Victor morph into beings with superpowers...

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Fantastic Four is a typical Hollywood disaster. Launched by Fox in an attempt to hold on to the rights to the comic books, with a director who has the pulse of the times (Josh Trank, Chronicle) to improve on the lackluster versions starring Jessica Alba, this big budget project was a flop in the States. The liberties taken with the story scandalized fans, Trank’s early departure from a future Star Wars spin-off spread rumors about his inability to carry a blockbuster, the 3D preview was canceled a few weeks before the premiere, and the studio drastically cut promotion to reduce the damage. It’s no surprise then that it does not square with the blockbuster genre, thanks to some incomprehensibility – weak narration, thin characters and not enough action scenes. Fantastic Four is almost three movies in one, with none given a chance to flourish. An even bleaker failure given that Trank had the resources (casting, good heroes, artistic direction) to make a good superhero movie. But apparently not at Fox.