Arrested Development Fantastic Four
Fantastic 4: An Action Musical is a musical adaptation of the Fantastic 4 comic book characters written and directed by Tobias Fünke with songs by Mark Cherry.
OVERALL PLOT:[]
Noted actor and analyst/therapist (or, as he regrettably abbreviated it, “analrapist”) Dr. Tobias Fünke (David Cross) tried to make a new start (or, as he regrettably announced it on a vanity license plate, “ANUSTART”) when he hooked up with former actress/addict DeBrie Bardeaux (Maria Bamford) at a methadone clinic he thought was an acting clinic called “Method One.”
As it turned out, DeBrie had played the Invisible Girl in an FF film quickly made by director (and Arrested Development producer) Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment to prevent the rights from lapsing (Howard, it should be added, got his break directing feature films from…Roger Corman).
Technically, DeBrie had just been a member of the catering staff hastily cast in the last-minute movie, but the eternally-optimistic Tobias felt this was a sign that he could take his acting career to the next (read: any) level and re-launch DeBrie’s by having them do public appearances as the Thing and the Invisible Girl (well, first Tobias was “The Human Flamer”).
Sadly, this only resulted in Tobias and DeBrie receiving multiple cease and desist requests from Marvel, and Tobias being arrested by John Beard’s To Entrap a Local Predator: Orange County Edition: Super Creeps due to a poorly-worded phone call to his daughter Maeby involving his costume where he explained he needed help with “his Thing” and “getting his rocks off.”
Things (so to speak) looked up when Tobias found himself in a work-release program at Lucille Austero’s “Austerity” rehabilitation clinic with DeBrie, and quickly put together a stage musical version of the Fantastic Four as a vehicle for her and a project for the other patients.
Despite boasting such star power as Andy Richter’s identical quintuplet Emmett Richter, Tobias’ mother-in-law Lucille as Latverian comics villainess Lucia von Bardas and baby-faced singer Mark Cherry (not to be confused with baby-faced Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry), the production at the annual “Cinco De Cuartro” celebration proved a miserable failure, with the eight-minute-long musical losing most of its stars and being drowned out by various political upheavals, possible murder, and other Arrested Development-type chaos.
YOUTUBE:[]
Arrested Development - A New Start
Arrested Development - Smashed
Arrested Development - Queen B.