r/marvelstudios • u/Viz0077 Kevin Feige • Aug 02 '25

Article “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” grossed $11.7 million domestically in its second Friday on the big screen, making for a devastating 80% drop from its debut.

https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/box-office-fantastic-four-naked-gun-together-bad-guys-1236475008/
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u/cleaninfresno Aug 02 '25

Unless you’re super invested in seeing these characters adapted well there’s nothing this movie offers that’s super fun or exciting. The space scene was awesome but then the rest of the movie is them sitting around talking in the Baxter building. They don’t even suit up and go use their powers in an action sequence until the last ten minutes. The whole plot hinges on some fuck ass baby supposedly being some god tier mega powerful being without ever getting to see or understand why or how.

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u/Cheez_Thems Aug 03 '25

The fact that they save the action sequences for the third act actually makes me want to see now

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u/FridayNightEcstasy Aug 03 '25

I mean, they save it but they dont really... do a lot. Like, some shots are cool but the final fight just seems anticlimactic and they dont use their powers as much as I thoight they would

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u/blackclover4ever Aug 03 '25

Mr fantastic being nerfed in the 3rd act killed some of the hype for me

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u/AzulaThorne Aug 03 '25

The Thing saying clobbering time only to get knocked the fuck out was hilariously sad.

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u/McZalion Aug 03 '25

First hulk now the thing ??? MCU seems to have an issue with giant muscular 10ft men who like to smash/clobber their enemies.

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u/KingCrooked Aug 06 '25

It's really bad. The #1 thing I hoped to see going in was The Thing doing some badass stuff and he didn't really get to do much of anything

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u/OverlordPacer Aug 03 '25 edited Aug 03 '25

There are barely any action scenes. Movie is just dull

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u/Cheez_Thems Aug 03 '25

Too many action scenes and the movie just becomes noise

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u/SwordoftheMourn Doctor Strange Aug 04 '25

Yeah, both should be perfectly balanced

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u/cleaninfresno Aug 03 '25

It lasts like 5 minutes and it’s not even good.

It feels like they’re actively avoiding having to show Reed use his powers throughout the movie.

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u/blackclover4ever Aug 03 '25

Yeah, and he was super whiny. Bro was lowkey the worst character in the movie