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The Fantastic Four for the first time, for the third time. How many reboots? Remakes? Or whatever we’re calling this can we make before we admit we cannot make a Fantastic Four stick?

Like at this point, just pick one.

I don’t even care which. Tell me which four I’m supposed to care about, and I’ll be there.

I mean, things might be getting out of hand here.

I’m just saying.

How many versions do we need in the same MCU? I mean, two of these are already part of it. Technically.

Now the new version.

Damn. That’s a lot of Fantastic Fours. There’s like sixteen people now total. And some of the actors have been reused as someone else in the MCU by now! That’s just crazy.

In 20 years, we’ve had four different versions. That’s more versions than Spidey and in less time. Damn.

Crazy.

With that being said, I watched the trailer for the new one. Trying to keep an open mind. And the thing this trailer has going for it, it’s not a rehash of the origin story. We’ve got that, we know who they are.

Move on please.

And they are.

It looks like we get a brief glimpse into what happened, but it’s set when they are already the very public Fantastic Four with their famous Baxter building.

I love this fresh take.

However, the thing confusing me most of all is the timeline.

When are we?

Where are we?

Is this set in a different time period like Captain America or Captain Marvel?

Or are we in an alternate universe where this is set in a futuristic but weird combo with the 50s sort of flavor? Honestly, without knowing anything else about the movie besides what was shown in the trailer, I’d say it’s the latter.

It doesn’t feel like the same MCU we’ve been playing with for so long.

The callback to the comic book style is a nice touch to make it feel like something new and familiar at the same time.

It ditches the serious tone the movie in the middle tried to do.

Returning to the whimsey of the original movies, but still with a touch of serious to it because this was a serious thing that happened to them. They went up there to study something and their lives were forever changed.

Especially, The Thing’s.

He can never be a normal person again. He’ll always be this huge rock creature where he’s too big to truly fit in. Something I thought the original movies touched on really well. Ben’s pain was palpable in those movies.

That his life was forever changed and while he enjoyed some things, he missed others.

I loved that detail.

Here, we touch on it again. We even touch on how Reed appears guilty over what happened to his friend.

Usually, because he’s the reason Ben was there in the first place. Following his friend on a scientific endeavor, only for things to go awry.

I wonder how that plays into the story.

One of the other things I liked was that Reed wasn’t lying when he said they meet for dinner. They do. Even with robotic assistance for dinner. They’re together and choose to be a family no matter how different they all are.

No one else will ever quite understand what they went through.

I love that they stick together.

The bond of the four felt absent or superficial at times before, so I’m curious to see how this plays out.

Overall, the new trailer looks interesting and I’ll definitely be checking it out at some point. But I also can’t help but feel bad for this movie.

Not only is it competing against versions of itself, one a success and the other a failure. It’s coming out in the same month as Superman directed by James Gunn.

True, it comes out at the end of the month while Superman comes out closer to the beginning. But if I only could see one movie that month because that’s all my budget could allow for, Fantastic Four is going to lose every time.

How many other people will say the same?

Will that hurt the movie?

Who knows? I guess we’ll find out which superheros in blue are the top dog in July!

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