What would happen if the fifth time was the right one? The new adaptation to the cinema, and the fifth, therefore – Fantastic fourCreated in Jack Kirby comics (drawing) and Stan Lee (stage) in 1961, a chess series is successful, one of them that is never thrown into cinemas.
This 2025 innova version placing its suitcases in the New and York Retro-York of the 1960s, populated by flying cars, geometric orange patterns and space epic. But the vintage leg, a little outdated from Matt Shakman’s new wonder (director of the very successful Wandavision) It is not limited to decoration. The theme of the film, around the maternity and raising of children, also has old clues. Themes in any case rarely explored in superhero movies, if not in Indestructible.
From the first scene, the decoration is planted. Reed Richards (Alias MR Fantastic, played by Pedro Pascal) and Susan Storm (the invisible woman, Vanessa Kirby, incandescent), in a couple, are being prepared silently in their huge retro bath. One is looking for a medicine, the other is in the toilet, a pregnancy test (positive) by hand. Already very human, very realistic, almost trivial.
The quartet worshiped by his compatriots (in addition to Reed Richards and Susan Storm, we add the latter’s brother, Johnny, aka the human torch, played by Joseph Quinn, and the best friend, Ben, the thing) returned from a trip to space with DNA and overlapping altered at the end. Reed is the elastic intellectual, Susan tame his invisibility, Johnny turns on and Ben transferred by a powerful man.
Your mission? Protect the world. While Susan’s embryo pushes, the shadow of the evil galactus, forced to devour the planets to survive, however, he looms in the peaceful life of the land. Pregnancy and motherhood, therefore, interfere with a fantastic apocalyptic world (special or too beautiful or too ugly in other places). Interesting. “Cute” supplement at least.
Tenderness, good feelings and realism
The Marvel really takes off when the family becomes a fraternal town (beautiful scene with Vanessa Kirby in front of the crowd). A little like Superman From James Gunn in DC, released in early July, his great competitor, is when the film immerses himself in the heart lost in tenderness, good feelings and realism (the house of the house often erect, invited and smoking a dish in the middle) that is the best; Do not dislike purists of the genre.
Especially because Matt Shakman does not make tons. Not so many violins or grandiloquent music. No thousand characters that blur the clues and weave surface links. Just what is needed to plant a tear in the eye. And bring your Fantastic four Towards the good family, universal fable.
Source: BFM TV
