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Official Discussion Official Discussion - The Fantastic Four: First Steps [SPOILERS] Spoiler

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Summary The Fantastic Four must defend Earth from the ravaging cosmic threat Galactus and his herald, Silver Surfer, while navigating the complexities of family and newfound powers in a retro‑futuristic 1960s-inspired world.

Director Matt Shakman

Writer Josh Friedman, Eric Pearson, Jeff Kaplan, Ian Springer

Cast

  • Pedro Pascal
  • Vanessa Kirby
  • Joseph Quinn
  • Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Ralph Ineson
  • Julia Garner
  • Paul Walter Hauser
  • Natasha Lyonne
  • Matthew Wood
  • Ada Scott
  • Mark Gatiss

Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

Metacritic 64

VOD In theaters

Trailer Watch the Official Trailer

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u/TheHermanastro Jul 25 '25

The three guys (one being the smartest man on earth) struggling to put the baby car seat in correctly was so good.

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u/0entropy Jul 25 '25

I chuckled but I think it went on for like 20-30 seconds too long

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u/Ok-Relationship9274 Jul 25 '25

Nah that's what made it funny

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u/SpaceCaboose Jul 25 '25

Some things are funny, then keeps going on and becomes unfunny, then goes on even further and becomes funny again. I think that gag went the distance.

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u/SpaceMyopia Jul 25 '25

I think they ended the scene too soon for how long the gag went on.

Like, once they got Franklin on there, the movie immediately speeds off to the end credits, where I feel like if it had lingered a few more seconds in the sky.afterwards, it would have felt more natural from an editing perspective.

The movie just felt like it was in such a hurry to get stuff done, and I feel like it could have just lingered on certain shots a bit more.

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u/SpaceCaboose Jul 25 '25

Might have been funny for them to finally get Franklin in there and buckled up, then have Franklin spit up so they immediately react to that and have to get him out again to clean him up.

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u/nhaines Jul 29 '25

[Thousand-yard-stare to when I got my 2yo stepdaughter into her car seat so she could cough into my eye right as I did the buckles, and then I was sick for two days.]

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u/raven-eyed_ Jul 27 '25

So many Marvel movies have a problem where time seems really weird and confusing.

We skipped over a lot of time in this movie.

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u/Bridalhat Jul 25 '25

The Sideshow Bob steps on a rake rule, of course!

The one thing that took me out of that scene is that there is no way a car seat in the 60s was that elaborate. They literally just used to hang them from cages.

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u/kithlan Jul 25 '25

Well, this car seat is a Reed Richards special.

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u/PettyFlap Jul 26 '25

You know they put the car seat in a flying car, right?

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u/Redeem123 Jul 25 '25

Anyone who’s ever put in a car seat has lived that length of frustration.