Not awful, but really didn't resonate with me.
I'm not necessarily tired of the MCU but this wasn't the return to form a lot of people where hoping for.
I will say, they toned down the Marvel humor.
But they ruined Galactus. And if you know him from comics, you know he should be an avenger level threat that is know probably going to be a one off bad guy.
Hard to imagine they ruined him more than making him into a giant cloud of gas, as in a previous FF movie, but I've been surprised and appalled by other bad superhero movie decisions, so anything's possible...
Haven't seen yet, I will eventually. Galactus could possibly come back. They teased Thanos in Avengers 1 and he came back like six years later. Seems they're gonna use Doctor Doom for Avengers:Doomsday and Secret Wars. Doomsday has Avengers, New Avengers (Thunderbolts), X-Men, Fantastic Four and Team Loki apparently.
Heard after Secret Wars it's gonna reset much of the movies, and only some actors returning. I'd assume the Young Avengers won't be recast (Ms. Marvel, Hailee Steinfeld's Hawkeye, America Chavez)...
I dunno.
Good production design, otherwise it's the same-old same-old.
I really enjoyed it.
Felt like 10 or so issues of the Kirby/Lee run on FF into a movie. Loved it but also been a FF fan since I was a kid decades ago.
Quote from: chainsaw midget on August 21, 2025, 09:28:10 AMI really enjoyed it.
Same here. At least they departed from the too-usual Marvel formula, and the cast was good.
I'll watch it when it comes on to Disney+. Movies since the last Avengers movie have been pretty hit and miss, so I'm not holding my breath for Avengers Doomsday, Doom not withstanding.
An ideal (for me) Doom movie would be to cross over with FF and tell Doom's story from his perspective, like Batman Begins with flashbacks to his past as a child, swearing revenge for his mother's death, going to university and meeting Richards, only to have his face blasted by the machine he created to speak with his dead mother. Perhaps a Marvel short series would work, setting up an Avengers movie with Doom as the main and recurring villain.
As for Galactus, he's a cosmic level threat that makes Thanos look like a B-villain.
The final 20 minutes were decent but other than that I couldn't warm up to this movie. H.E.R.B.I.E. was just dumb and Ben & Johnny's characters were totally wrong. But it's the best FF movie so far (which isn't saying much).
I thought it was ok. I've seen worse FF films and I've seen ones that were about the same level. I kept thinking this feels like a Fallout movie before the bombs drop.
We watched it last night. It becomes significantly more interesting in the second half, when they return from space after failing to "negotiate" with Galactus (a dumb idea), and then must confront a loaded (Biblical!) morel dilemma.
Galactus himself was spot-on (which one couldn't say about RISE OF THE SURFER, obv) and the kaiju action at the end was delicious.
But the Surfer FX, oddly, look no more advanced or convincing than they did in 2006! I guess they blew the budget on Galactus and were forced to load up old CD-ROM CGI from 19 years ago...
Pascal and V. Kirby were good; J. Quinn often seems like a weaker Johnny than he actually is because the Chris Evans Torch was pitch-perfect. The Thing is simply all wrong, though - objectively. Ben Grimm is one of the most clear and iconic characters in Marvel comics... he's Ralph Kramden, w/ the grandeur turned up to 11, plus a deep tragic underlayer. Moss-Bachrach plays Grimm likes he's just on 'ludes all the time: not even Tragic, just medically subdued.
Two very dumb things about the film: 1.) Women who are 8-9 months pregnant aren't even allowed to fly on planes, let alone into space. :lookingup: 2.) Whatever other criticisms one might level at the acting, the real clincher was the resolutely dry eyes during the climactic (apparent) death scene. We got a spouse, a sibling, and a best friend with a pulse-less body for sixty seconds, not a single tear can be mustered by the actors and their director? :bluesad: