2015’s “Fantastic Four” is considerably worse than 2005’s version and that film’s sequel “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” because even though those films weren’t particularly entertaining, they at least felt like superhero films but the 2015 remake, reboot or whatever you want to call it, feels more like a rip-off of “Stargate”.

The new but certainly not improved “Fantastic Four” tells the tale of young scientists Reed Richards (Miles Teller “Whiplash”), Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan “Creed”), Susan Storm (Kate Mara “Shooter”) and Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell “Billy Elliot”), who travel to an alternate universe and find their physical forms substantially altered. When they return to the alternate universe, they must stop Dr. Doom (Tony Kebbell “Wrath of the Titans”) from destroying our universe.

The characters are insanely dull. Miles Teller is cringingly bad as Reed Richards and Tony Kebbell is downright awful as Dr. Doom. We really get to see very little of the characters using their superpowers and we see virtually no real superhero stuff like the older films; the scene in the 2005 film where they rescued everybody on the bridge would be far more entertaining than watching the new team just sat inside a government lab somewhere. The other characters are worthless.

“Fantastic Four” is a stupid, stupid, stupid film that offers next to nothing in terms of the superhero content I wanted to see. The film is so slow and boring up until the point when they get their powers that you think that there is going to be something exciting that the filmmakers are setting you up for but then when they get their powers, they spend most of the time sat around and the final battle is mediocre. This film makes the earlier “Fantastic Four” films seem entertaining and if you haven’t seen any of them then watch those ones; they’re not very enjoyable but their vastly superior to this.