{"id":106,"date":"2005-12-19T19:56:16","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T00:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2022-10-26T18:49:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:49:53","slug":"fantastic-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/fantastic-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Four"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Did they learn nothing from Spider-Man 2<\/em>, clearly the pinnacle of the superhero genre (and I will fight a Marvel Team-Up with anybody that dares disagree with me)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fantastic Four<\/em> is an aggressively stupid series of one missed opportunity after another. It just narrowly escapes one star by making me laugh a handful of times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And another thing. Jessica Alba’s glasses don’t help her pull off a line like “The space cloud has fundamentally altered our DNA!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did they learn nothing from Spider-Man 2, clearly the pinnacle of the superhero genre (and I will fight a Marvel Team-Up with anybody that dares disagree with me)? Fantastic Four is an aggressively stupid series of one missed opportunity after another. It just narrowly escapes one star by making me laugh a handful of times. 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