For starters her eyes were creepy. period. Fake super dark blue contacts on those normally earthy brown eyes. The blond hair was weird and Barbie dollish and looked all wrong with her skin tone. Then there are the more than a little racist overtones of turning a beautiful Latina girl into a fake blond bombshell. I'm offended by the fact that the Hollywood players who make these movies think that comic book fans couldn't look past the fact that that she was of Latin American descent in 2007. In 1966 of course sue Richards was blond. In 2007 there is no reason to think she couldn't be a Latina. But squeezing her into that ridiculous fake hair and contacts is just the height of creepy, slouching toward black face. Whats cool about sue Richards isn't her hair, it's her. It's her strength and tenacity and motherliness and her power, bottom line, her powers make her cool.
That having been said, I basically enjoyed FF2:ROTSS and more importanly i enjoyed the lessons it taught me. Yes there are in fact lessons to be found in this ham fisted barely recognizable adaptation of one of the classics of my youth. The most important being: stick removal.
See, i'm watching the movie and i'm getting pissed off at all the lame ass Thing jokes about him and alicia having rocky sex, her dying in a rock slide, etc etc. The Thing burping real loud and so on. I'm annoyed at Albas ethnic morphing, I'm annoyed that Reed Richards is annoying but not in an endearing way, I'm annoyed the Alicia apparently can tell when Johnny enters a room because he "smells like ash" but can't locate your face when talking to you. I'm annoyed that Galactus isn't a big giant man on a big giant space motorcycle with a big giant hat. I'm just basically annoyed. Then the Thing Burped and all the little kids laughed. lots of them. dozens. laughing like it was the best thing they'd ever seen. Then it hit me.
Who gives a flying fuck if this is a true to form adaptation of the comic books i new and loved? These kids love it. It's a fun family film with a good message and cool special effects and the silver surfer made me have to check my underwear. I said to myself: self, enjoy this movie as a family movie, don't hold it to any more expectations than you did Sky High. Remove the comic book fan boy shaped stick from your anus and watch this movie like an 8 year old you. Remember what you loved at 8 about the fantastic four...well it's there. Wise cracking johnny, Reeds cool-ass stretching, the forcefields, clobberin' time. It's all there. Plus you get a bad ass larry fishburne as the surfer with a stellar physical performance by the guy from the Buffy episode Hush, plus you get amazing ... and i do mean amazing...super scrull special effects. The coolest death of a full of himself general ever. The introduction of Frankie Ray, totally cool, and the girl from Last King of Scotland who plays Alicia, is sooo ridiculously hot. Suddenly It was 1983 and I'm reading the adventures of the ff trying to stop anhillus from leaving the negative zone all the while dealing with the family dynamic and all the responsibilities of being the first family of super heroes.
And you know what galactus looks silly in the comics and always out of scale and his big hat just isn't scary. A giant space tornado...that shits scary!
Funny, you pull out one stick and 22 years drop off,just like that.
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