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Score: 7.4 / 10 
Fantastic Four
Despite the court orders and the public outcry, it seems the Fantastic Four will soon be here. Of course, there's only one scene that any sensible moviegoer is looking forward to - namely, the naming scene.
Because at long last, we'll get the true explanation for Reed Richards' bizarre choice of sobriquet. For if I am a woman with the ability to turn invisible, nobody could object to me naming myself Invisible Girl. Similarly, if I am a rock-laden thing with little or no verbal skills or imagination, I may just call myself Thing. Fair enough. And if I can set myself on fire without basic kerosene or arson training, the name of Human Torch would certainly be among the first two dozen I'd come up with.
But if I was somehow blessed with the ability to stretch - to elongate, if you will - as if made out of, say, plastic, then the two names that might spring into my mind would be, say, Elongated Man or Plastic Man.
And yet, the leader of the Fantastic Four's response to this superpowered blessing of super-stretchosity? The name-choice of one of the single smartest superheroes in the Marvel Universe? He decides that the very best monicker he might adopt, given his powers, is that of... Mr Fantastic.
Mr Fantastic. Yes, Reed. Whatever you say.
Of course, we shouldn't prejudge. Perhaps the movie will make clear - in a way that the comic books never have - that the ludicrous mismatch between the character and the name he has chosen for himself is meant sarcastically, like Cedric The Entertainer or Amy (The Butterfly Effect) Smart.
Begone,
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