A friend of mine dug up this long-lost relic the other day, and I thought I'd share it, since I have some kinda fond memories of this cheesy production...
That's Jay "The Boy Who Could Fly" Underwood as Johnny Storm (a.k.a. "The Human Torch"). Fun fact - Both he and Alex Hyde-White (Reed Richards) were involved in separate Indiana Jones related projects. (Hyde-White played a younger Henry Jones Sr. in 1989's "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade" while Underwood played cub reporter Ernest Hemingway in TV's "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.")
For being a 1994 production, the animatronics on Ben Grimm/The Thing are pretty similar to those used on the early live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Not bad, but a little puppet-y. Still, at the time who was ever sure we'd see a done-right big budget version of any superhero movie?
The ever-so-slightly-cheesy production remains findable if you go looking for it hard enough. My favorite memory of the movie is the surprisingly "fantastic" (see what I did there?) score by the Wurst Bros. A warm heroic family theme that sticks in your imagination long after the movie's over. Give it a listen here.
For other Fantastic Four goodness, I recommend:
- Marvel Knight's Fantastic Four #1: A Wolf at the Door - by Roberto Aguirre-Saracasa and Steve McNiven.
- Fantastic Four - The Ultimate Collection - by Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo
Check out your local store for these, they're excellent.
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