Fantastic Four (2005)

Fantastic Four was definitely the better of the two movies in the franchise prior to this year’s reboot, but that isn’t really much of a compliment, given the overall quality of its sequel.

The movie introduced Marvel’s first family to mainstream audiences, utilising a $100 million budget and, although it made a fairly hefty profit, it was ridiculously cheesy and the introduction of Julian McMahon’s horrible version of Doctor Doom was incredibly underwhelming as far as villains go.

Again though, given how bad we now know that Fantastic Four films can be (see this year’s reboot for the example of this), you have to give this ten year old offering some credit – it did more than triple its budget at the box office, after all.

In the meantime, audiences eagerly await the inevitable announcement (whether it be this year or in several years’ time) that Marvel Studios have gained to rights to the property, so that we may finally get a potentially great depiction of the Fantastic Four in a movie.