Movie reviews: Fantastic Four, Max, A Doctor’s Sword

THERE’S a charming quality to the opening scenes of Fantastic Four (12A), as child inventor Reed Richards (Miles Teller) bonds with bullied kid Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell) as they attempt to build a machine capable of teleportation. 

When Reed accidentally invents a device that facilitates inter-dimensional travel, he is taken under the wing of the Baxter Institute, where he meets the brilliant Sue Storm (Kate Mara), her brother Johnny (Michael B. Jordan) and the equally brilliant, but ominously troubled, Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell). The kids end up being exposed to an energy that causes them to mutate into humans with fantastic powers.