Sandy Kenyon reviews 'Fantastic Four'

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The all-star reboot of the 'Fantastic Four' movie in theaters this weekend, but should you be racing to the theater to see it?

The Marvel fan boys and girls have greeted 'Fantastic Four' with a big yawn.

The studio releasing it, 20th Century Fox, was so embarrassed by the film that it didn't screen the picture for critics until the day before it opened, which still gave reviewers plenty of time to hate it.

Only faithful comic book fans will care enough to want to go see it, and if the first half doesn't put you to sleep, there may be just enough excitement to make it worth your time.

In the movie, a quartet of young geniuses get together and try to perfect a device to teleport them to a fourth dimension.

It features Michael B. Jordan -- a star of tomorrow here today -- Miles Teller from the Oscar-nominated movie "Whiplash," Jaime Bell and Kate Mara. All talented individually, but together they make a whole so dull as to be a lot less than the sum of its parts.

Though talented performers, it is hard to care for them or their mission due to the dull script.

Once the teleportation machine is built, things go horribly wrong, leaving each with a super power and a fifth guy was the villain known as Doctor Doom. He begins sucking the life out of our planet, and by the time the movie gets interesting, it's just about done.

'Fantastic Four' is based on characters developed by Marvel, which is owned by Disney, the same parent company as WABC-TV.