The Fantastic Four: First Steps - Teaser Impression

  The Fantastic Four: First steps 
One “Small” Teaser, One Big Excitement for this Dingo

  

Well now, this feels surreal to finally see come to fruition, a superhero movie series that was started by FOX finally getting the full reboot treatment.

 

Back when the merger between 20^th Century Fox and Disney was taking place, those that were actually excited about it – albeit for fan excitement reasons that I can’t fault the general audience for entirely, since ya know, most people rightfully so come for the cool characters – had held their breath and cheered, now many spoke about these characters finally being justice on the big green since they were back home at Marvel Studios.

Unlike their X-Men series, which had more loved instalments than bad (and even then you could only call the entire spiel a mixed experience but those highs were absolutely worth it) – Fantastic Four’s run with FOX was…less than stellar received. Now granted the Tim Story duology have seen a bit of a re-appraisal since they’re at that point in time where people are nostalgic for those features, the whole debacle with the 2015 dark reboot was enough to sour people entirely – even Fox to a degree since they went back on their whole X-Men/Fantastic Four cinematic universe (makes sense, leave the Marvel cash in universe to Sony).

Gosh, this is one hell of a time capsule

But that was 10 years ago, and since then unless you follow the comics, the series rep wise somewhat fell out of the general public consensus – lack of representation in other media (be it Disney or Marvel not wanting to give free publicity to FOX or them wanting to save the characters for their feature film). So, this teaser coming out fired up all the excitement, not just with me but seemingly with the general audience too – something I hadn’t seen for a new standalone MCU superhero feature since Black Panther.


And after seeing the teaser….yeah it has me pulled in too. I say that as someone who has been indifferent to the MCU post Infinity War.

Look, I enjoyed this movie but I will accept that it is purely because of the fan aspect. As a movie alone it is an absolute mess.

From the get go, while the movie has that digital era blockbuster palette I’m not the biggest fan of (nor is it a deal breaker), they make it work in that the way the palette is mixed with these bright colors and the 60s inspired futuristic set design, it manages to make me feel that bygone era the same way I would from say, illustrations done in a magazine depicting everyday life. So from the get go, the movie has won me over with its visual identity – it sticks out from the recent Marvel affair where things may seem flashy but the general feel and identity to these sets and the worlds post Thanos just…don’t really feel all that interesting to visit – sorta like the boring small towns you go through on a vacation trip to one of the main cities.

WAIT MERCY, I LIKE SMALL TOWNS, I FIND THEM QUITE QUAINT.....

So Ben looks perfect and acts perfect too, love his little bonding moment with H.E.R.B.I.E. that feels earnest and not just there for the sake of “we need a quip”. This feels like family banter and from the get go, that is one of the big things that won me over – one of the biggest faults I found with the prior adaptions and honestly a good amount of F4 adaptions is that more often than not you don’t really feel the family dynamic between the characters – which…is a weird thing to miss when you consider how the team has always been described as Marvel’s “First Family”.

Costume wise, everything looks great, not sure how I feel about The Thing in a shirt, but I think that’s more, adjusting to a change, rather than finding it bad – plus even if I find it tacky, I don’t know, you could argue that’s the point of the 60s look so I don’t know, but same time I like the rest so…yeah haven’t been able to nail down my thoughts there yet.

The teaser captures that perfectly, this Fantastic Four feel like a family even if it’s unconventional – but I mean, what is a conventional family, there’s no such thing, family is family, as long as there’s love.

Casting wise, everyone just feels perfect in the roles they were given. Granted this is the teaser so like all things…..

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I am reserving final judgement for the movie as we go along, but first impression wise everyone fits the part perfectly and in some cases like Sue Storm, she is absolutely perfectly cast and I am curious to see how she’s written as that’s always been…..something prior adaptions didn’t have the best of luck with.


Can’t say much about Johnny outside of the fact his Human Torch form looks good from the brief shot. I just hope they keep in his donkey attitude, that is one thing the Story duology nailed perfectly.

Gosh he's got such a crap talking grin

So far, I am excited for this feature, I do want to see more trailers first, but as it currently stands, looks like both DC and Marvel are putting forth their best foot forward for 2025 and I’m happy to see how it plays out

Also it is gonna be great to see how Galactus plays out in this movie or if future trailers will spoil more regarding him



Or with it’s actually his daughter who joins the 60s hippie movement, I feel like at this point anything is possible.