Hello everyone so Jay and I just got back from
a lovely Thursday night screening of Fantastic
four first steps the newest MCU thingy and we
got much like we did with the Thunderbolts Early
screening. We got these cool key chains Okay,
let's kind of go bottom Bottom line up front,
Jay, what did you think of this film Superman?
You called the best comic book movie since Endgame.
Did Fantastic Four beat it? No. No, but. But
it is the best Fantastic Four movie period. Now,
that's not a very high bar to clear in the history
of Fantastic Four Phelps. Where do you rate this?
Like, like if you go into MCU, like A tier, B
tier, C tier, D tier after like, where do you
put this in the in the grand scheme of MCU films?
I would say like. Hmm. I would say this is like
a solid B. Like a solid B level like like not
not bad. It's good. And by the way, y 'all got
to get off this like if it's not perfect, it's
it's bad. No, it's a it's a good movie. It is
a good movie. Let's kind of run through it here.
Obviously, we know we got this kind of retro
futuristic vibe to the whole thing. We did see
it in IMAX, which I'm glad we did. Visually,
I thought it was stunning. It looked good. Start
to finish. And honestly, the one I was worried
about was Reed's powers, right? Like, because
it's hard to do Reed's powers well and make them
not look completely ridiculous. But I think they
did a pretty good job of that. Yeah. Everything
looked great. This looked how a Marvel movie
should look. The effects were great. I didn't
have any problems with like any of the superpowers.
Everything looked. On par, like everything looked
great. Casting. Pretty solid. Yeah, very solid.
Good chemistry. That's the thing that I think
I bought the most of. Right. Like Sue seemed
like Johnny's older sister. Yes, 100 percent.
Right. There was a little bit of love. a little
bit of frustration, right? You know, and Johnny
being the little brother. And I actually want
to stick on Johnny because we talked about this
a little bit as we left the theater. Hang on,
I'm blurring out here. This is the best version
of Johnny I've ever seen. I loved this Johnny.
I thought he I thought Paul Quinn did such a
great job as this Johnny. I 100 % agree. No,
no issues there. I think he was perfect. Obviously,
he's funny. And then yeah, he has that like little
brother thing going on. And I'm sorry, it's Joseph
Quinn. And so here's the thing that I want to
say about this without getting into spoilers.
And we are going to do a spoiler video. So if
you've already seen it, or if you don't care
about spoilers, go ahead and go back and watch
our spoiler reaction, which will be a lot more
in depth and we'll go into full spoilers about
the thing. But I do want to say this. There's
this tendency with Johnny and this is what I
liked about this movie that they didn't do this
There's this tendency with Johnny to make him
very one note, right? Johnny's the goofy hot
shot guy But Johnny actually has a very important
role in the story That has nothing to do with
his ability to turn into fire Right he does something
that critically turns the story in a really important
way. And I was surprised that they did that,
right? Because again, the temptation is to make
Johnny very one note. And I really want to say
what it is, but again, I'm not going to go into
spoilers here. Again, you guys come watch our
spoiler video for that. But I think Joseph Quinn
just crushed it. Eben Mosbacherak as the thing.
He emoted so well. Yeah. I just like I bought
it. I bought him as the thing. Yep. And again,
he wasn't one note either. I think maybe maybe
that's the thing I noticed the most about the
characters is previous Fantastic Four's all the
characters felt very one note. Reed is really
smart. Sue is this Johnny's a hot shot goofball.
You know, Ben's a clobbering guy. Right. Like.
I didn't get that sense from any of these characters.
No, there was definitely some pretty good depth
with all of them. They all have, I would say,
like their. Character flaw that they're trying
to like kind of overcome during the movie. They're
trying to like prove themselves in a very specific
way or trying to overcome their I don't know
fame if you will Yeah, I I really like there
was a lot there was a lot of depth to This fantastic
for which the other two. I mean, I I fell asleep
the the last one I fell asleep during fan for
stick. Yeah The only casting and I told you this
on my way out. I don't think it's bad But if
there was a weak link in the chain, I really
do think it's Pedro Pascal I I don't know. I
don't I Don't think so. I I really enjoyed him.
I liked him. I just Maybe I'm just a little Pedro
Pascal and I love Pedro Pascal Okay, and I appreciate
Latino guys who grow patchy beards. Thank you
Pedro like it it helps all of us okay but he
was the one i maybe i'll have to watch it again
and maybe on a second watch through i'll feel
differently but he to me was uh the the way it's
like um galactus looked amazing yeah galactus
i god that um Yeah, very comic booky, but not.
Didn't look ridiculous. Yeah, he did. He looked
like he belonged in this reality. Yeah, it was
sick. I liked it. He has. It's amazing. Yeah.
I want to go back to the glass. Ralph Anderson
is Galactus. He even had the goofy helmet. Which
under normal circumstances, you'd be like, why
do you wear that stupid hat? But you know what?
It almost makes sense in this movie. Like it
didn't pull me out of the movie at all. Yeah.
Julia Garner, as our silver surfer, shall a ball.
Right. She did a really great job. Yep. Right.
Yeah, I'm really trying to think of anybody that
I didn't love in this that I didn't like. And
again. Reed is probably the closest. I loved
Herbie. The little robot is great. He's awesome.
Right. You know. Yes, there's just there's so
much to say that was just, again, really well
done. Also didn't resolve the way that I that
that I thought it was going to. But again, you
don't. You don't feel like they won too easily,
nor do you feel like it was too hard? Like they
balanced it really well. Yeah. The stakes made
sense. It did. And I don't think I can say anything
else without spoiling, so like, um. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean. It was it was a it was a tough fight.
Yeah. Yeah. But again, it all made sense. There
was nothing there where I was like, what? How
did that happen? Right. Right. There was nothing
in the fight where I was like, really? Right.
And again, you felt that menace from Galactus,
you felt that menace from the surfer. I think
she was used really well in the parts where they
used her. um it's kind of like the the tier two
antagonist here uh which again we've all seen
the thing on tiktok all right i herald is beginning
i herald your end um don't worry i know a lot
of people i was talking to were worried that
they were getting too spoiled by all the clips
and shit that disney's been releasing on this
most of that's in the first 20 minutes of the
movie Right, there's a whole middle section there
and and like but the middle section which visually
again if you've read the Jack Kirby comics it
feels so Like again, there's a whole middle section
that just looks amazing. We saw it in IMAX I'm
glad we saw it in IMAX because there's some cool
visuals Trying to think what else we could say
without spoiling too much I really don't know.
It's it's so hard. So, yeah, Jay, overall, let's
let's run this down again really quick. Is this
a you should see this in theaters or wait for
streaming? 100 % should see in theaters. The
only thing that really upset me, you they were
already sold out of the Galactus head buckets.
So if you want one, they're gone. They're already
gone. Now, I'm going to say this. We saw this
early screening at AMC. We got our cool keychain
like we did for Thunderbolts for our early screening.
And unlike the real where we had to see Superman,
we got to do our own butter on our popcorn and
their popcorn popcorns. Just better. I'm sorry.
Sorry, Regal. You're not going to let that go.
Oh, yeah. No, I'm not. But yes, they were sold
out. They did have the Herbie drink holders.
And I almost want to put there. They're a little
pricey. I think those things don't just a smidge.
Yeah. It's it was a little expensive drink holder.
Eighty two. Holy crap for Herbie. It was 80.
Yeah. So, again, I didn't do it. Anyway, folks,
are you planning on seeing Fantastic Four? Are
you excited about this movie? We really like
it. I think it's it's I think it's actually almost
fair to say the MCU is back now. You know, three
of the last four movies they've released between
Deadpool and Wolverine Thunderbolts and Fantastic
Four are great. Captain America is really kind
of the only misstep movie wise I've seen in the
last couple of years. So I think it's fair to
say the MCU is back. Yeah. You know, I think
we can start putting some faith back in the MCU
again. Let us know what you think down in those
comments below. And if you want, come back for
our lovely spoiler talk.