Fantastic Four Review: 7 Stupid Blunders That Totally Ruin The Film

6. Sue Isn't There When The Team's Created

OK, so being 100% faithful to a comic book isn't required to make a great comic book movie, but when it comes to origins there's things you don't mess with. Spider-Man is bit by a spider, Batman's parents are shot in an alleyway and the Fantastic Four are mutated when, as a quartet, they push the boundaries of science. Fant4stic doesn't quite get on board with this idea; instead of having Sue accompany the other three to the Negative Zone, it's Victor von Doom who goes along with them. Kate Mara's character only gets wrapped up in the adventure when she spots the rest of the gang has gone travelling via computer link, ultimately gifted her invisible powers when she just happens to be standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. To have one of the Fantastic Four only involved in the origin by happenstance may sound like a cool way to mix things up in the writing room, but on screen it makes the team look less like a coherent unit of friendly scientists than four people thrown together by accident. Again, that's a nice (ish) idea, but nothing in the film goes along with and it thus feels an incredibly flippant decision.