Les 4 Fantastiques: Premiers pas

The movie was bland. Story and action both were meh.. As a fan of the superhero genre I was hugely disappointed both by the movie and by the critics hyping it up.

You hardly see anything "heroic" being done that gets your heart pumping nor are you invested in any of the Fantastic Four. The power scaling makes zero sense at different parts of the movie, Galactus is nerfed to the max (to the point of being silly) and this universe has the stupidest / most gullible NPCs ever. This is exactly how the conversation goes with them, NPCs - "oh no the world is going to end, you can't save us" F4 - "we will save you don't worry" NPCs - (panic over and tears in their eyes) "ok"

Save the money, buy something on the Steam sale. I left before end credits.

I mean I went to theater with quite high expectations. But honestly was a bit disappointed.

Movie tried to explore characters and their depth more but collectively as whole it went bit shallow and mediocre storyline.

It was definitely better than previous ones. But calling it one of the best MCU films? Um nope. Not at all.

This movie is so unimaginatively silly that it feels stuck on the level of a mid-90s Power Rangers episode. At best, it might be aimed exclusively at kids, but honestly, I think even today's kids would simply find it dumb. I struggle to imagine that anyone could genuinely enjoy this film, and if someone does, I'd honestly love to hear why.

It seems pretty clear now that the "Comic book" film is on its last legs. The combination of an oversaturated market married with a steep decline in quality has the genre about to join the Western in the mausoleum of pop culture. Can one great movie change that? No. A string of good to pretty good ones? Again, no. This is a nosedive that even Chuck Yeager couldn't pull out of. Enter: 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps', a film so mid, so meh, that your super power will need to be not falling asleep.

Ironically this is the fourth try at a live action F4 adaptation (If you include the Corman hoax from the early 90's, which I do). That's a whole lotta effort for an IP that really doesn't have much "cool" factor or cultural currency. But Marvel never met a toothpaste tube it couldn't squeeze dry, so here we are.

Filled with atrocious CGI f/x, a wafer-thin story and a total lack of emotional connection, the two best things I have to say about this movie are that it's short and that I enjoyed the retro futuristic visuals. That's it. Forgettable score. Poor casting. I could go on and on. Everything else here is a swing and a miss.

This isn't the worst movie in the increasingly inconsequential MCU, but it sure isn't good enough to act as a course correct for Disney's once Titanic brand.

It's fine, it's watchable but it's crazy how by the end of the movie, we hardly know anything about the four main characters. It feels like we're "already supposed to know" which is insane for a "first" of a film franchise.

I loved the 2000s version of Fantastic Four because it focused on how each character coped with their powers and losing their human lives + the challenges they each faced fitting into society. Ben lost his family, and had to rebuild his life and find love again. It had depth. This one, it's like the director said to each actor- ok you have one character trope and we will milk it the entire movie.

My poor man Ben got like five minutes of screen time! Also why did Ben's rock body look 10x more real in the movie made 25 years ago?! Bad CGI, Spiderman made in 2000 had better effects.