(trailer review) - Fantastic Four: First Steps

 

I decided to watch this trailer just to be nosey, really. There has been some online chatter about the film not testing great and that the film came across as just ok, with the testing audience, so I was wondering if they were going to show anything else to help sell the movie for people, and they did. But to help sell, I guess we will see, but I liked what I saw.

Seeing Sue leaning over a baby's cot and the voice over stating whatever life throws at them, they will face it together as a family, with shots of Ben Grimm pulling a ship in the sea, the fire in the sky, Johnny flaming on and then more shots of the Fantasticar driving in the street and then driving/flying in the air is just great. Seeing a bit more of the celebrity status the family have and the speech from Reed Richards stating that the Fantastic Four are the planet's defenders and that they will protect the planet. Even the line of "is it clobbering time?" got a little shout out whilst we see the same scene of Ben running through the building's structural pillars. Ha! It is a nice little 1-minute and 15-second trailer, showing us a lot more, but just enough and not overstepping the mark, just to let us know that tickets are on sale. I am doubtful about Reed saving the planet, but I am definitely interested in how the story will go. And it's Marvel, they need another win. Thunderbolts was a win, this also needs to be a win