The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

[Jerroddragon]

Ohh thank god....reviews seem to be saying its pretty great.

 

[saint.piss]

Ohh thank god....reviews seem to be saying its pretty great.

Jeremy Jahns is a washed up hack. I'm excited for this film obviously but this dude's opinion means nothing to me anymore. He's aligned himself with some really awful people.

 

[OhHaiInternet95]

Jeremy Jahns is a washed up hack. I'm excited for this film obviously but this dude's opinion means nothing to me anymore. He's aligned himself with some really awful people.

If you mean the anti-woke crowd, those were the people who were pre-disposed to hate the movie...so if even they like it, I'm feelin' pretty good lol.

 

[Lucky Planet]

Jeremy Jahns is a washed up hack. I'm excited for this film obviously but this dude's opinion means nothing to me anymore. He's aligned himself with some really awful people.

can you explain who? if you're gonna throw out accusations like that, I need to know ( I really don't know what he did)

 

[Jerroddragon]

can you explain who? if you're gonna throw out accusations like that, I need to know ( I really don't know what he did)

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Thats what I found after the comment

Also this is like the second or third time I post someone Youtube on here and told they are POS......I just like his movie reviews and normally we have similar tastes so was excited to hear he liked it so much

 

[saint.piss]

The post credits scenes have leaked. Be careful

 

[AvoidTIMtation]

I want to see the Galactus scenes as well as find out how the overall MCU story moves forward, but I'm not at all interested in sitting through the whole movie LOL

 

[Lucky Planet]

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Jeremy Jahns is one of the more popular film critics on YouTube. An aspect that some might attribute to his success is his that he is unbiased. He doesn’t seem to cave to the culture war grift for easy views, nor does he seem to be more critical of the politics surrounding films. As I’ve […]

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Thats what I found after the comment

Also this is like the second or third time I post someone Youtube on here and told they are POS......I just like his movie reviews and normally we have similar tastes so was excited to hear he liked it so much

I've always liked his reviews, they are quick and to the point. he's never been negative that I remember. he's never attacked people or anything. I never saw any controversies from him. I didn't know he reviewed that movie.

 

[Lucky Planet]

it was kinda boring. the actors has great chemistry but the movie is kinda dull. silver surfer was amazing. all her scenes are amazing. did not like sue storm at all, don't like her. Ben was the best part. the ending was kinda dumb.
silver surfer was really the best part of the whole thing.

 

[OhHaiInternet95]

 

[HalfGlass]

I had a very similar problem with this film as I did with Superman. There’s some good ideas here, but by foregoing the origin story and jumping us ahead years after they’ve inherited their title/powers, something is missing.

I know the Fantastic Four. I know Superman. I know the supporting characters. But I don’t know THESE renditions. And yeah you can have the basis there and a quick montage or voiceover of “how we got here”, but watching the banter and chemistry the characters have isn’t enough to make me connect with them emotionally. In the comics, a lot of the heart and soul of a superhero is formed during their early years. You can callback to their trials and tribulations verbally or indirectly, but it’s not enough.

That said, I thought the movie was fine. Entertaining enough and I’m glad it at least tried to be different than what’s come before in the MCU. But as a launchpad for the future linchpin of the universe moving forward? This didn’t even get close to making me excited about their entrance into the Avengers.

 

[Lucky Planet]

I had a very similar problem with this film as I did with Superman. There’s some good ideas here, but by foregoing the origin story and jumping us ahead years after they’ve inherited their title/powers, something is missing.

I know the Fantastic Four. I know Superman. I know the supporting characters. But I don’t know THESE renditions. And yeah you can have the basis there and a quick montage or voiceover of “how we got here”, but watching the banter and chemistry the characters have isn’t enough to make me connect with them emotionally. In the comics, a lot of the heart and soul of a superhero is formed during their early years. You can callback to their trials and tribulations verbally or indirectly, but it’s not enough.

That said, I thought the movie was fine. Entertaining enough and I’m glad it at least tried to be different than what’s come before in the MCU. But as a launchpad for the future linchpin of the universe moving forward? This didn’t even get close to making me excited about their entrance into the Avengers.

yeah I know what you mean,
but before I was so tired, basically exhausted with origin stories after we have had so many, there have been so many origin stories, so in a way I'm glad that these two movies are not origin stories,

but I feel like it worked much better in Superman because is full of action and characters, it's basically got non stop action and Lex Luthor was relentless and unstoppable. ( some people will argue that it has too much )
but here with fantastic 4, I feel like it really hurts the movie since there's not a lot happening. yeah they are established and everything but this really feels like downtime for the team in some ways.
and introducing silver surfer and galactus kinda hurts it without having anything else to focus on

call superman cluttered, but at least is super entertaining and funny. the energy never dips.
but with this movie it was the opposite. the energy never really goes up

 

[Jerroddragon]

I enjoyed this film about as much as superman

Both are good with good ideas not my favorite movies but not bad.

I think the casting here was very well done, I think every one of the main cast kills it

If they have more with the Red Ghost...would be cool to do some sort of 40 min special of all the cut scenes with him and what I assume is other Adventure's they filmed but did not fully make it into the movie besides a scene or two

 

[belloq87]

I liked this a whole lot, probably more than any MCU movie since NO WAY HOME. It delivers basically everything* I could ask for from a Fantastic Four movie: retro-futurist "period" setting, full embrace of the early Lee/Kirby comics, great dynamics between the family, and a very impressive Galactus.

It feels, looks, and sounds like no other MCU film, and that’s incredibly refreshing at this stage. Bonus points for also being totally self-contained (save for the mid-credits stinger).

* No FF movie is truly complete without Doom. And while we know he's coming, I'm still very skeptical of how he's going to be handled.

 

[OhHaiInternet95]

* No FF movie is truly complete without Doom. And while we know he's coming, I'm still very skeptical of how he's going to be handled.

Me as well, but I'm glad that they're saving him (ideally I would've made Red Ghost the main villain for this movie, but I'll take it).

 

[Grabnar]

Really enjoyed it, nice to have 2 Marvel films in a row that are actually decent quality and have unique tones. Hoping this is the beginning of the course correction.

 

[Bort]

I'll blame myself for buying too much into some of the pre-movie speculation. Thought the ending was going to be much different, especially after

Spoiler: major spoiler

their countdown to moving the earth gets blown at the last minute

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If I remove those expectations and judge it purely on what it was, I think F4 and Superman are both quality superhero movies in the B- range.

3 out of 4 were good this year (Thunderbolts, Superman, F4). 1 was not - sorry, Captain America.

 

[chris.g]

I agree with the above.

Saw it last night and the movie was ALMOST perfect. Both this and Superman would’ve benefitted from about 20-30 more minutes of letting scenes breathe!

Anyone else burst out laughing at H.E.R.B.I.E. Saying “what the f***?”

 

[Skold]

Loved it! The Dr.D was a little janky, but this was my 80s comic-book FF!

Loved the name checks of the villains they defeated over the years:
The Mad Thinker!
The Red Ghost and his Super Apes!
Diablo! (featured in John Byrne's first full duty issue, 232)

I liked Superman a bit more, but I was/am very heavily invested in these two movies.

We did it!

 

[OhHaiInternet95]

Spoiler

+ Pedro silenced all doubters imo, he absolutely nailed it as Reed.
+ Vanessa Kirby does a pretty good job as Sue.
+ The aesthetic was 10/10, it actually feels like the creators read the freaking comics, something that cannot be said for the previous two iterations.
+ Galactus was legit frightening. Washed out whatever bad taste I had of that worm cloud garbage.
+ Excellent acknowledgment of the smaller villains; I just about squealed with delight at the ape fight...

- ...but it still made me wish we got to see any of those in the main villain role, similar to Batman Begins. It almost reminded me of how the opening of X-Men Origins Wolverine should've the whole movie.
- I wasn't impressed with Joseph Quinn as Johnny. He just doesn't have the "frat bro" persona that Chris Evans and even MBJ (only somewhat redeeming quality of the Trank version imo) captured.
- Other than the opening montage there wasn't as much/as interesting utilization of powers as I would've liked.
- Nitpick, but I had to roll my eyes at the idea of Sue being able to handle a rocket launch and turbulent space chase while pregnant.

Despite my critiques, I'm pleased. : )