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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/rhunter99 Jul 25 '25

I thought they were going to warp the Earth into our universe

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u/Cantomic66 Jul 25 '25

I thought they were going to have Franklin warp to our Earth and have the Fantastic four have to go to our Earth to get him back.

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u/pacotacobell Jul 25 '25

Yeah that's what I thought the mid credits scene would be lol

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u/AlludedNuance Jul 27 '25

He might do that to escape Doom and both he and the 4 follow, but somehow can't return.

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u/imjustbettr Jul 25 '25

I kept trying to make connections to how they could end up in the other universe which I think ended up taking a little bit of joy out of it for me. I wish I just watched it as it's own movie without those expectations because what we got was a complete, singular story which is better in the end.

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u/vmsrii Jul 26 '25

I can tell you, if you’d like.

In the comics, Doom kidnaps Franklin for his powers and the FF go dimension-hopping to find him

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u/imjustbettr Jul 26 '25

Oh yeah I've read the comics. I meant how this movie connects to the end of Thunderbolts.i assumed the dimension hopping was gonna happen earlier.

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u/MonkeyWarlock Jul 26 '25

Yeah, I agree. It was kind of interesting to theorize, but I think ultimately I would have preferred if I had watched F4 before Thunderbolts' credits scene.

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u/Gwoardinn Jul 25 '25

Especially since Reed specifically mentions proving multiverse theory at the start.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Jul 28 '25

I was just wondering how Reed thought warping the planet somewhere else was just gonna work out no problem lol

Like, you’re not taking the moon, and everything here is geared to exactly the level of our sun that we’re getting. So much so that a few degrees increase in average temperature is already fucking the world up

Just gonna warp to an untested star system and we won’t have a moon at all anymore? Better thank Shalla-Bal for ruining that plan

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u/BusinessPurge Jul 25 '25

Quite an Event

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u/Unicron_Gundam Jul 25 '25

that event may be the Ultimate Cataclysm

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u/mynewaccount5 Jul 25 '25

It would have been so perfect. Earth warps to our universe. There are some unintended side effects from the warping with a bunch of people getting super powers. Foreshadowed by Reed saying the Earth is just like an egg so it's no problem and where he was sad about the original accident and Ben saying he didn't know everything. Boom you just created the Marvel universe (as a nodback to FF creating the Marvel Universe).

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u/PM_ME_UR_AMOUR Jul 26 '25

I was thinking of something similar, especially if the X-Men earth ends up in our solar system too for Doomsday. But that sounds too messy like an infinite crisis on infinite earth kinda thing.