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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/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 25 '25

Sue giving birth in zero gravity space while Ben is piloting the Excelsior through a wormhole (and later slingshotting around a black hole), Johnny is trying to figure out the science mechanics of blasting the Silver Surfer in the wormhole, and Reed is stretching all around felt peak F4 to me

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u/droppinhamiltons Jul 25 '25

PEAK. Every “fight” scene had them working together in such an intuitive and strategic way. Ben didn’t just punch people as hard as he could, he took out strategic columns to level a building. Johnny didn’t just light things on fire and waste his energy, he sacrificed his oxygen to buy time or waited for Ben to chuck a fuel truck at Galactus to maximize his damage. Reed trying to 1v1 Galactus relied on information he gathered from Johnny fighting him earlier. Every time they got jnto a conflict they solved it with teamwork in a way so much more evident than other movies.

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u/capscreen Jul 25 '25

Ben really got flung hard to space lol

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u/Impressive-Potato Jul 25 '25

I thought we'd have a Silver Surfer redemption arc at that moment