Let's do a superhero film without going through the trouble of thinking about the story first! That's how 'Freaks' felt to me. Things just keep happening. A good story has some foreshadowing but here it is like a good story retold by a child: "And then they did this, then they went there -- o, I forgot to tell that there was this prison first ..."
No climax, no motiv, no humor. Boring characters without any depth and obviously just following a text book for superhero storys -- but this one is badly told.