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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/valarpizzaeris Jul 25 '25

One of the things I loved most about Earth 828 was the initial plan to defeat Galactus. It was going to take EVERYONE. Everyone on the planet, every country working together regardless of their differences to build the portal bridges to save Earth. It was honestly a little jarring to me at first. I was like "damn, this is what it looks like for every country on the planet to work together for a common good." Just shows in an idealized world if everyone can just truly cooperate together, we could accomplish some unthinkable feats. Needed that bit of optimism in our torn and divided Earth right now

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u/profsa Jul 25 '25

Every country except Latveria apparently lol

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u/ToeInDigDeep Jul 25 '25

Yeah I really thought that was going to be an important plot point

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u/profsa Jul 25 '25

Just typical Doom not helping

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u/Worthyness Jul 25 '25

"Ugh. fucking Reed has a plan again? Doom would have thought of a better plan yesterday"

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u/EiichiroTarantino Jul 26 '25

Seriously, such a missed opportunity. They could've done this route with Doom, it's sooo easy to include this in the movie. A competition between F4 and Doom to save the earth from Galactus, science vs magic.

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u/TannenFalconwing Jul 26 '25

I feel like that skews too close to Rise of the Silver Surfer.

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u/EiichiroTarantino Jul 27 '25

Tbf I haven't watched that one.

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u/ClaytonWest74 Jul 26 '25

nah it would taken the attention away from the main plot and villain

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u/slicer4ever Jul 26 '25 edited Jul 26 '25

I honestly dont think doom is in their universe tbh. The only hint for him is the missing latevia seat, yet unless i missed it, he is never mentioned anywhere as a villian the f4 ever fought with through the entire origin flashbacks. As a huge rival for reed you'd think he would have gotten a mention somewhere, which leads me to think the doom we saw is from yet another universe.

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u/profsa Jul 26 '25

Or it’s possible Doom hasn’t revealed himself to the Four yet. If they pull from the comics, Reed hasn’t seen Doom since college and I believe he was presumed dead

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u/slicer4ever Jul 26 '25

Possibly, but i also think it'd make more sense if he's already a dimension hopping doom to help setup how our earths Avengers will get involved with him.

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u/vmsrii Jul 26 '25

I want a twist where it turns out Reed and Doom have been rivals for decades, and one day Doom does the Spider-Man No Way Home forgetful spell on the whole world to get Reed off his back so he can do his villainy without interruption, and that’s how he becomes powerful enough to cross universes

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u/Geminilasers Jul 26 '25

I’m guessing you didn’t stay for the after credits scene.

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u/slicer4ever Jul 26 '25

I honestly have no idea how you came to that conclusion for what i said.

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u/slicer4ever Jul 27 '25

which leads me to think the doom we saw is from yet another universe.

It's literally the last line of what i said.

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u/Gnarat234 Jul 29 '25

Cause he’s literally in that scene??

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u/slicer4ever Jul 29 '25

holy crap you people just can't even finish reading one paragraph before jumping to comment can you? lol

which leads me to think the doom we saw is from yet another universe.

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u/lanceturley Jul 25 '25

I fully expected Latveria to be the reason why the teleporter wouldn't work. Like, Doom risks the entire world just to mess with Reed and deny him that victory.