Fant4stic: The Unaired TV Pilot

Josh Trank's disastrous movie repurposed as a television pilot is an idea that sort of demands you pay attention to it against your better judgements...but the key to fanediting is to bring you to make a better judgement of the material being tweeked and twisted. I'm pleased to say ironnman has managed to succesfully reformat this otherwise doomed effort into something substantially stronger. Sequences are given a lot more commotion to elevate them, the narrative jumps between the present and the past and back again in ways that do not intrude too, and what would be an otherwise cliched moment in the film concerning a character's dillema allows the edit to end on a compelling cliffhanger.

I'd watch more to see where it goes, this edit, to quote Timmy Mallet, is ''the show your telly was made for''

A solid salvaging of what was good about the recent FF reboot - while the ending seems like less of a cliffhanger and more of a commercial break (Doom re-appearing might be more what a network would want to leave viewers off on than Ben vowing to find Reed), this is still a fine bite-sized version of a failed experiment that manages to get across the characters, their setting and their desires in a compact amount of time. Inessential ultimately, but as a look at an alternate world where this cast got a chance to grow and stretch in these roles, it's worthwhile for hardcore FF fans.