We were at the beach, on vacation, and as it happens every year, there was a rainy day, and we took the kids to the movies.
Well, some of the kids.
Monkey in the Middle and Tiny didn’t want to come, so we just took numbers 1 and 3.
There were some amazing previews, and Baby Monkey kept saying “Ugh, when will it start? I just LOVE the Fantastic Four!”
And then it started and he was literally shaking with excitement.
When it was over, he said “That was the best movie I’ve ever seen.”
For me…
Eh.
I mean, it’s a movie, and what’s not to love about a movie, but it didn’t wow me.
In fact, I didn’t like it as much as I liked the one that they made a few years ago.
I didn’t feel like the characters were as likable or as sympathetic.
Good action, sure, and Dr. Doom was pretty cool, but overall, not so great.
Maybe it’s also because I really wanted to see “Pixels” and got outvoted.
But that would mean that I’m petty and bitter and we all know that’s not true.
Right?
Like Baby Monkey, I am a huge fan of the super hero genre, and there aren’t many movies in the genre that I don’t like.
Heck…I even enjoyed “Daredevil.”
But this one…
You know how, sometimes, you have an author, and he/she is a great author, and you love his/her books.
But then they become a little too prolific, and you find the latest books to be not as good as the earlier ones, and you realize it’s because they are just writing books for money and not for the story any more?
Yeah, this was like that.
I mean, who remakes a movie that just came out 10 years ago?
So, to sum it up, save your money, because, while the special effects are cool, the movie, overall, is a bore.
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