Fantastic Four Review

I know I’m late to the party but here it goes-

The very first scene with the pregnancy test was such a clumsy intro and I would be willing to bet it was a reshoot.

I really dug the retro sci-fi world and the flying car. It was perfect for a Fantastic Four film.

My biggest issue with the movie was the cast. Sue and Reed had zero chemistry and Reed acts like he was on Ambien up until the very end where he finally shows some emotion. It actually made me miss the cast from the 2005 movie, they had much more emotional range and a better group dynamic.

It was hard to care about the plot when the cast seemed so checked out.

Galactus was awesome, he looked like he jumped out of the comic book page.

The ending felt anti-climatic, something was off. Again my spidey-sense was saying reshoots. I would double bet that there was an original ending where their planet is destroyed and they escape to Earth 616 or whatever it is.

Overall grade 7/10, just okay not Fantastic.

This is a nitpick but in the final fight everyone just stands around and watches Sue. Ben Grimm even runs right past Galactus, it pissed me off.

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elProtagonist2025-11-08 07:35

I could be wrong but I don’t think The Thing punches anyone during the entire movie.

JantosUndone2025-11-08 07:36

I just finished it. Stronger than the last few movies, but still awful. Terrible casting for Johnny and Sue.

elProtagonist2025-11-08 07:39

I agree!

Significant_Silver992025-11-08 07:36

There is no alternate ending where their world gets destroyed. that's something people made up due to the Thunderbolts post-credit scene

elProtagonist2025-11-08 07:47

Yeah there is something missing between First Steps and Thunderbolts

marvelcomics222025-11-08 07:38

Respectfully, I disagree with quite a few of your points. The pregnancy test scene was pretty cool, it showed us the dynamics between the characters, and set up some pretty important stuff. Also we saw what a pregnancy test looks like in an alternate universe in the 1960s. Sue and Reed didn't have Fitzsimmons levels of chemistry or anything, but they were pretty good together, and Reed's apparant lack of emotion is just a part of his character because he's always found solace in science. I doubt that they had any plans to end a movie featuring one of their main teams going forward with them losing, which has disasterous consequences on their world, and fleeing to another universe. As for the final fight, they are concerned with saving Franklin.

elProtagonist2025-11-08 07:45

I hear what you are saying and I understand the intent but I think the pregancy test scene should have been cut and the movie should have started with the ABC news special.

marvelcomics222025-11-08 07:57

I think that it's important to the characters to have that scene, because, as they said, they were trying for two years, so they finally have the child they've wanted for ages, and all of a sudden Galactus wants it.

elProtagonist2025-11-08 08:00

Good point!

Significant_Silver992025-11-08 07:49

Also them escaping into 616 while letting everyone else in their universe die turns them into villains and cowards and goes against Sue's speech in the film

Golbeza2025-11-08 07:38

Really disagree with most of your complaints, thought it was a great movie.

elProtagonist2025-11-08 07:41

That’s okay! Im glad you enjoyed it!

GimmeThatWheat4242025-11-08 07:49

Always a DC superfan criticizing marvel

elProtagonist2025-11-08 07:52

LOL absolutely not, dont get me started on the Snyderverse.

GimmeThatWheat4242025-11-08 07:53

My friend…the DC fans that are annoying really aren’t the Snyder fans…

Correct-Chemistry6182025-11-08 09:25

I liked it (it wasn't exceptional but enjoyable), but I agree with your two points: I didn't like the beginning and Reed didn't convince me.

EIeanorRigby2025-11-08 11:49

7/10 isn't really an "ok" score, it means the film was pretty good. If I think a film is average I give it a 5.

Wooden-Radish-90082025-11-08 13:01

Given the entire movie is about Sue and Reed becoming parents and them navigating the changes that parenthood brings, no, the pregnancy test scene that initiates that entire arc for them and is later called back to in act 2 wasn't a reshoot.

Yall just be calling anything a reshoot.

This whole review just sort of reads like "anything that wasn't exactly how I expected it to be is bad"

Comfortable_Breads2025-11-08 22:47

Review reads like your goal was to be unhappy.

SuperEagle50002025-11-09 09:01

I agree and think you’re actually being too kind. It’s a 2/10. Only the retro futurism look of this movie is good, everything else about it was just bad. Really bad. I say this as both a movie fan and as an FF comic book reader of issues #150-330. This movie was flat, boring, unexciting, anticlimactic, and so bad I would have stopped watching halfway through if I hadn’t been watching it with a friend. The characterization of Reed Richards was really off. I think Marvel just needs to give up on making FF movies.