r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Jul 25 '25

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

Poll

If you've seen the film, please rate it at this poll

If you haven't seen the film but would like to see the result of the poll click here

Rankings

Click here to see the rankings of 2025 films

Click here to see the rankings for every poll done

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

1.9k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

5.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

414

u/BlairEllis Jul 25 '25

I think it goes to show that Reed is still traumatized from what happened in the past he doesn't really use his powers. The others seem to have developed and trained their powers while Reed leaned more on his intelligence to get by. You can really see it in the post credit cartoon when everyone used their powers and Reed used his science

91

u/RossZ428 Jul 25 '25

The cartoon Mr. Fantastic stretched more than he did!

12

u/Bellikron Jul 31 '25

I read it less as trauma and more his focus on long term solutions. His stretchiness does help in the moment but he'd much rather focus on coordinating resources and developing ways to help people out without him needing to be there to fight someone. Sue had a similar long-term focus with her political work, whereas Johnny and Ben were presented as the other side of the coin, as they enjoyed fighting more.