admittedly and when the chance to see this horribly infamous legend of a movie and my expectation be pretty low . they weren not low enough . scholckmaster roger corman somehow come into ownership of the right to produce the marvel comic book character sometime in the late 80 or early 90 and and hand it off to oley sassone and whose directorial work have largely be in campy tv series such a hercules and viper . with a supposed total budget of 1 . 5 million dollar and it be produce and shoot and briefly release on video and then send to the wasteland of forgotten film . there it should have remain . however and like a banana peel in a vaudeville act and this fantastic four sits out in the ether wait to cause a pratfall for those rare people unlucky and foolish enough to step on it . if you have ever hear of these comic book character and you know what to expect . the people who make this be very true to the source material and and that be the only thing for which they deserve any credit in this fiasco . this present the origin of the heroic group that develop superhuman power when the shield on their experimental spacecraft fails to protect them from cosmic radiation . reed richards ( alex hyde white ) develop the ability to stretch his body and become mr. fantastic . his girlfriend and sue storm ( rebecca staab ) can become invisible and and her brother and johnny ( jay underwood ) can spontaneously cause fire to erupt from his body . finally and ben grimm ( credit to both michael bailey smith and carl ciafarlio ) receive superhuman strength when his skin mutate to a rock like hyde and be then refer to a the thing . there be a prologue that set up a former classmate of reed and victor von doom ( joseph culp ) to become their enemy and dr. doom and who orchestrate the sabotage of the fantastic four space flight a an act of revenge for injury he blame on reed . there be the set up and then the discovery of the power and the revelation of the villain and ultimately a climactic fight . there be more detail to the poorly write script and but they be negligible . this be a movie that be make simply because the creator ( i use that in the technical sense of the word . there isn not a whole lot of creative imagination at work here . ) have the legal right to do so . the plot will be undoubtedly mirror in the anticipated big budget release set to be direct by tim story in 2005 and but tackle a massive special effect project like this without a comparable budget or qualified actor qualifies a an act of cinematic insanity . what special effect exist be mostly hand drawn or simple camera trick that have exist since the day of the original the great train robbery . when half of the climactic fight reverts to full on hand animation and youre almost relieve to be watch a cartoon instead of the poor actor who be damn to be in this project . there be very little consistency of style in this mess as well . most scene be either shot flat in available light or wild primary color and and the only dressed set be the obvious sci fi piece . there be camera work and but it be mostly just keep the character center on the screen and minimal information flow to the audience . edit include leave in extra line and use obvious wipe ( at one point there be even a transition use the center of a number 4 ) . edit spin be even use to supplement the poor special effect when the thing transforms . the one scene where morph technology be put to use be shock only because it be such a positive jump up in quality . limited camera work be not unforgivable . in clerk and only the most basic camera movement be use and there be almost no style . it work for that film because it be about people whose life have no style and and it be consistent . kevin smith never let his reach exceed his grasp . the blair witch project cause some audience to suffer motion sickness from the jerky hand hold stuff that put that pseudo documentary together . when all be say and do and it be an effective work about the terror of get lose and be consume by a frightening situation . there be no sense of story or theme here on either a spoken or visual level . with this fantastic four and you never get more than an accidental laugh at the fact that the film maker and performer seem to be actually try to rival other comic book movie with this poorly budget entry . any film involve a great deal of time and work . it just so sad that so much of both be pour into a project like this . if youre one of the people who be involve with this and it be most likely do a a step stone on the road of a ( hopefully improve ) film career . everyone know about take job to make the most of what appear to be an opportunity . for those who be curious about watch this movie and my advice be to only do so with a group of friend ( so you can all point and say you watch it and too ) who have be forewarn about the experience ( so nobody get hurt from the shock ) and and maybe you can come up with a drinking game to ease the pain between the accidental laugh . negative .