Smoreni Zmaj Studio that held rights for FF was facing risk to lose them because they didn't make a movie for too long. They decided to avoid that risk by making low budget movie that will never be released. It was cheaper to waste one million dollars on "false" movie than to lose FF rights. This terribly underrated gem was made and luckily it saw light of the day, at least on internet. Movie is really cheap, but it's more than satisfying for such low budget, and if you are able to accept lousy effects you will have lots of fun. I really enjoyed it.7/10

MartinHafer While I am not particularly a fan of superhero films, I decided to see this after I saw the documentary about this picture, "Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four". This film has gained legendary status, as it was completed...yet never officially released in any way. So how did I get to see it? Somehow a bootleg copy escaped and the film has been sold at comic book festivals. There also is currently a copy on YouTube...though if Twentieth Century-Fox wanted to, they could enforce their copyright and have it removed. So far...they've allowed it to stay posted.Before I get to the review, I want to put this very low budget film in context. While technically speaking it looks like crap compared to superhero films today, back in the early 1990s superhero films were NOT the technical marvels they are today. Part of it is because CGI has grown by leaps and bounds since then. Part of it is that superhero films to that time (with the exception of "Batman" from 1989) looked really cheap and crappy. And, part of it is because the film only cost $1,000,000 to make...a pittance even back then. In this light, it's actually amazing that the film looks as good as it does! But be prepared...some of the special effects are far from being special!!Here's the story in a nutshell. Some scientists create a space craft but its diamond cluster drive (?) is sabotaged and it causes the ship to crash. Somehow this crash causes the four astronauts to become the Fantastic Four and imbued them with superhero powers. Following this, the baddie who caused the wreck, Dr. Doom, tries his best to kill the Four.Style-wise, this is much more like a comic book or kids film than the next generation of superhero pictures. It's far less serious and slight. This simply is how most such films at that time were made. Now I am not saying this is a great thing...but it's hard to expect a cheap film to somehow recreate the genre. Overall, it's watchable and entertaining...albeit a bit silly and slight as well. I cut this one a lot of slack for what it is...and I hope you do as well.By the way, this film was shelved in a deal that gave the rights to the franchise to Twentieth Century-Fox. And, since that studio did NOT want two "Fantastic Four" films, they chose to shelve this cheap Roger Corman film. Incidentally, the Fox film cost about 100 times more...and reviews for that film are generally terrible! So, even if the Corman film isn't great, at least it wasn't that much worse and cost practically nothing!!

Shadow_Writer I know is not saying much.I was curious, so I watched it even though I expected it to actually hurt.If you keep in mind that it is a 90's low budget comic-book film you'll realize that it is even better than Hasselhoff's Nick Fury movie... Damn, it is better than Schumacher's Batman & Robin, and you can't even compare the budget differences... And The Fantastic Four wasn't even intended to be released!It is campy, the FX are awful, acting is below average, and still, it is fun to watch and has a better script than Superman Returns (yeah, I wish that was a joke, but if you saw that, you know I'm not).

user-12235 Well, as FieCrier put it "There *are* worse movies."; but not by much, folks, not by much.If I didn't know it was a '94 movie I would have sworn that it was from the '60s.It's good to have in a collection; and if you are either bored cross-eyed or moderately stoned, watch it. If you have dinners plans with a nice bottle of a 1984 vintage, don't watch this: as it will put you off your appetite.All that being said, it is refreshing to see Corman's mind (such as it is) give us character development; which is a lot more than can be said about later comics/sci-fi fare.I just can't get myself to go higher than one rotten tomato on this one; but my consideration of fellow sentients who think it better, I give a two."Danger! Will Robinson; Danger!" "Aliens approaching."