hey guys I’m back! Finally saw it tonight. Full review (spoilers ahead) it’s a long read…
So we waited 20 years for this, since the disaster that was F4, the, that whatever that disgusting body horror was. So, how does this compare? This is the first try at Fantastic Four from the Marvel Studios crew. Kevin Feige, and co. And what can I say about it? Overall, I'm gonna give it a, I hate to say it, but a 6.5 out of 10. The reason I give it a 6.5 is because the pacing was terrible. The first half was pretty boring in my opinion. It was really slow paced. The movie really picked up once they got into space and uh, they met Galactus for the first time. From that point on, it really took off.
Uh, I'm gonna go through the cast right now. Pedro Pascal, yeah, like people were saying he wasn't that great, but he wasn't that bad, so he was kind of mediocre. Uh, Vanessa Kirby, I thought she did a fine job. Wasn't fantastic, no pun intended, but it was good. Uh, Ebon Moss-Bacharach, uh, I was thrown off by the thing because I felt like his voice should have been like more like, like grimy, like, you know, like Michael Chiklis did a great job for the thing. Uh, doing the voice of the thing. Uh, in the, you know, the 2000, what year was that, 2005 or 2, no. It was early 2000s, in any case, he did a great job, but Ebon Moss-Bacharach kind of, he took me out of the movie cause his voice was just a normal person, and I was expecting like a gruff, monstrous voice. You'd think when you go through anatomical changes like that, your voice box would change too, but, eh, whatever. They nailed the look though, like, crazy good. Uh, otherwise, Human Torch was really the, he was the highlight for me. Uh, he, uh, what was his name? I forgot his name right now, but anyway, the guy from Stranger Things, killed it. He was amazing, he did an even better job than Chris Evans in my opinion, because he really owned the, the role, whereas Chris Evans was just being wisecracking. Uh, you know, although, you know what, I have to say the original Fantastic Four, when I say original, I mean the, the early 2000s ones, they were actually better in an entertainment standpoint, which is really bad to say, but it's true, because the pacing was really good, it was a family movie, it was lots of laughs, lots of action, whereas this, there's only like a few giggles here or there, it wasn't really a lot of comedy, and the action was few and far between, and when it, when there was action, it was kind of, it was really toned down, I don't know, it was just like a whimper, it wasn't like a big, you know, infinity war.
If you're. expecting an Infinity War endgame, you're not gonna get that. The closest thing we got to that was Galactus when he was walking through the city like Godzilla minus one. That was pretty cool. But besides that, and they fought Galactus too, the set pieces, the action pieces weren't that, they were underwhelming to say the least. So those are the things that were wrong with the movie. What really went right with the movie was the look, the aesthetic, they really nailed it. The 60s, you know, like futuristic look. They pulled off one of the most visually unique MCU movies yet, uh, because it really harkens back to the Watchmen, if you ever watched Watchmen by, uh, Zack Snyder, it nailed that look. It really, they, they nailed the look. It, it was visually aesthetically pleasing. Uh, the soundtrack was quite repetitive though, it, you should not notice the soundtrack, but I was noticing the soundtrack over and over. He didn't, he didn't come up with any more variations, it's just, you know, piano version, then a big version, but, you know, the Avengers soundtrack was way better, so, I don't know, I think it's lacking in that department. And then we have the post-credits scene, spoiler alert, but Doom is in it, and that was underwhelming. I thought, okay, yeah, finally, you know, I wasn't even, no one went, oh, we were just like, oh, finally, about time. It was like, what took you so long, kind of thing.
Um, but overall, I thought the first half of the movie was like a 4 out of 10, maybe 5 at best. The second half of the movie was a strong 7, 7.5. So, all in all, that's why I give it a 6.5 out of 10, and I probably won't see another Marvel Studios movie in theaters anymore, except for the Spider-Man movies. I feel like it's a waste of my time and money now. Like, I'll just wait for the Fantastic Four movies, you know, whatever, when they, when they come out, and the only other movie I'll watch is obviously the Avengers, Doomsday, and all those secret wars, whatever they're coming up with. Gonna watch those, the, the two Avengers movies coming out, and then the Spider-Man movie, Brand New Day. Besides that, I'm not gonna waste my money on Marvel anymore, I'm just gonna watch The Predator, Badlands, that looks amazing, I'll probably have a good time with that.
But was it worth the wait? Verdict is yes, visually it was worth the wait, because it did everything that the old Fantastic Four movies didn't do, in terms of nailing the, the look, nailing the spirit of the comic book, in terms of the, the look. The dynamic was there, I thought the chemistry was there between the characters. Uh, you, you, you could believe, you know, Vanessa Kirby and, uh, Johnny Storm were brother and sister, you didn't feel like it was, you know, that they were pretending, like it seemed like they were. Uh, the chemistry between Reed and Sue, I, I thought it was there, I wasn't, I didn't feel so good about it, I wasn't like, yeah, I love them, you know, I ship them, no. The chemistry between Human Torch….(continued next post)
