{"id":1267438,"date":"2026-03-08T01:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=616513"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:55:26","slug":"josh-tranks-2015-fantastic-four-does-at-least-one-thing-better-than-the-mcu-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/josh-tranks-2015-fantastic-four-does-at-least-one-thing-better-than-the-mcu-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Trank\u2019s 2015 Fantastic Four does at least one thing better than the MCU version"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/em><\/a> is the best (official) Fantastic Four movie<\/a>. You barely need to like it for that to be true. Marvel\u2019s original superstar team has had terrible luck on the big screen, from a low-budget 1994 Roger Corman movie<\/a> that was never officially released to Tim Story\u2019s mid-2000s<\/a> movies<\/a>, which were not much improved by their availability on thousands of screens nationwide. In 2015, a pre-Disney Fox made a last-ditch attempt to reboot the property into\u2026 something<\/a>. A proper companion piece for the studio\u2019s still-running X-Men movies? A bigger-budget version of Josh Trank<\/a>\u2019s found-footage superhero project Chronicle<\/em>? Anything, so long as it ended in Fox retaining the rights?<\/p>\n

Whatever Trank\u2019s 2015\u2019s Fantastic Four <\/em>was supposed to be<\/a>, it obviously didn\u2019t work out, given the movie\u2019s low grosses and a single-digit Rotten Tomatoes critics\u2019 score<\/a>. But while it\u2019s hard to wholeheartedly recommend the movie in full, it did deserve the temporary title of \u201cbest Fantastic Four movie\u201d \u2014 partially by default, and partially because it\u2019s surprisingly in sync with some of the better early-2000s, pre-MCU superhero movies.<\/p>\n

In those days, the idea of skipping over a superhero origin story, as First Steps <\/em>and James Gunn\u2019s 2025 Superman<\/em> reboot<\/a> do, was almost unthinkable. Bryan Singer\u2019s 2000 movie X-Men<\/em>, the first big 21st-century superhero film, is essentially an anthology of origin stories in miniature. Sam Raimi\u2019s 2002 Spider-Man<\/em><\/a> hit previously unseen heights by retelling one of comics\u2019 most familiar origins. Even Mark Steven Johnson\u2019s 2003 Daredevil<\/em>, which isn\u2019t precisely an origin story, nonetheless pauses to explain Matt Murdock\u2019s background in an extensive flashback. By 2015, these things understandably felt like old hat, not least because most major superhero origin stories had already been told in movies. That includes the Fantastic Four, who received a slapdash version of that standard treatment back in 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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So it\u2019s counterintuitive that Trank\u2019s film revisits the origins of Reed Richards (Miles Teller), Sue Storm (Kate Mara), Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan), and Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell), going back even further than the usual Fantastic Four starting point to spend 10 minutes on Reed and Ben\u2019s childhood friendship. It\u2019s not time wasted, though; those scenes have a neo-Spielbergian sense of earnest wonder that sets up the movie\u2019s interest in dark science fiction over wild fantasy. They also lay enough groundwork in the relationship between prodigious but misunderstood Reed and working-class Ben that when Reed goes off to New York City for college, the class divide that drives their expected fates is quickly and clearly communicated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That sense of division is another area where Trank\u2019s film goes against the natural grain of the material in a productive way, lending it common ground with X-Men<\/em> as well as Ang Lee\u2019s much-maligned 2003 movie Hulk<\/em><\/a>. (Still the best Hulk solo movie, not that there\u2019s much competition.) When the quartet does eventually acquire their powers, about halfway through the movie, they\u2019re quickly isolated from each other, stuck in a series of military labs as other scientists try to determine the best course of action for a man made of rocks, a human torch, a woman who keeps disappearing, and a body that can be stretched to grotesque proportions. For the foursome dealing with their newfound powers, it\u2019s a scary experience that only exacerbates their feelings of separation from \u201cnormal\u201d humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just kinda jumped to \u2018body horror\u2019 in my head,\u201d Trank told<\/a> Entertainment Weekly<\/em> (and other outlets) when promoting the 2015 film ahead of release. While it would be a stretch to say the movie fully belongs to that subgenre, it does feel more engaged with the weird science of these superheroes than First Steps<\/em>. The new movie treats Reed\u2019s stretchy body<\/a> as an afterthought for much of its runtime, and features a Ben Grimm so relatively comfortable in his own rocky skin that he lacks much inner tension.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Trank\u2019s versions of the characters have plenty of strife, and he may have gone too far in that direction, largely ditching the family dynamics so core to the original characters. But their newly alienated forms have some potent ideas behind them: The Thing as a government weapon, yearning to be free; Reed, able to stay off-grid in part by using his flexibility to disguise himself; Sue as a character so guarded that you can practically see the force-field bubble around her before she actually acquires that power; Victor Von Doom warped by his accidental abandonment in another dimension. Reed maintains his gee-whiz enthusiasm for science, as the movie around him makes it seem more like a dark, unruly realm that only a few can hope to tame. <\/p>\n

All told, the 2015 movie does create an X-Men-like balance between human foibles and amazing yet alienating powers. Teller isn\u2019t necessarily a natural choice to play Reed Richards \u2014 at the time, he would have made more sense as Johnny Storm \u2014 but his awkward-outcast version of the character is more recognizable and relatable than the aloof, benevolent genius of other big-screen incarnations. Similarly, Jordan makes Johnny\u2019s cockiness more organic than the slick wisecracking Chris Evans had to work with in Tim Story\u2019s 2005 and 2007 movies, even as his Human Torch form is depicted with ghostlier stylization. (For a narrative that feels so incomplete, the movie\u2019s visual effects are largely decent.) All four actors do the difficult job of grounding these characters in a grimmer, more contemporary reality than the pages of their optimistic 1960s comic magazines. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing wrong with embracing the more outsized aspects of superhero comics. Gunn\u2019s Superman<\/em> does this; so do classics of the form as varied as Batman Returns<\/em><\/a> <\/em>and The Avengers<\/em>. Yet the act of translation undertaken by some of those early-2000s movies, easing audiences into these alternate worlds, can be compelling in its own right, and was probably necessary to take superhero movies into the mainstream.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes that process can be surprisingly smooth, as with X-Men<\/em>, which effectively distills years of comic-book soap opera into stories and performances into an accessible jumping-off place. Sometimes it creates strange hybrids of florid melodrama and hand-drawn lyricism, as with Hulk<\/em>. The 2015 Fantastic Four<\/em> is closer to the latter (Reed even spends some of it as a scientist on the lam, like Bruce Banner in Hulk<\/em>) without the same level of trust afforded Lee, who did a superhero movie between Oscar nominations.<\/p>\n

Various behind-the-scenes shenanigans, seemingly owed to a combination of Trank\u2019s relative inexperience and that weird cocktail of studio jitters and full-steam-ahead release-date adherence, led to a movie that feels shockingly unfinished. Speaking to Polygon some years ago for a lengthy Trank profile<\/a>, original screenwriter Jeremy Slater described the full movie as more or less an expanded version of the first 40 pages of the script he and Trank worked on together. That tracks with how the first hour-plus of character-driven sci-fi shifts abruptly into Fox Forest mode, the seeming default setting of the worst Marvel movies from 20th Century Fox, where heroes of unimaginable power wind up skulking around dimly-lit forests and, in this case, hallways.<\/p>\n

A later development across various studios\u2019 superhero films, the ubiquitous glowy garbage-swirl sky-beam, is also sadly present and accounted for. Staying awake for the final 20 minutes of this movie, where the team actually flexes their powers with confidence, is a challenge that makes it difficult to fully recommend the 2015 Fantastic Four<\/em>, especially with a far more polished version now available. <\/p>\n

Yet it\u2019s surprising, given the movie\u2019s terrible reputation, how close it comes to repeating the kind of distinctive, smaller-scale superhero material that became an increasingly dicey proposition<\/a> as these projects got too big (and interconnected) to fail. Fantastic Four<\/em> attempts to bridge the gap between comic-book spectacle and its cinematic cousins like monster movies, \u201950s sci-fi, and Amblin-style misfit adventures. Given how much of it turns on lab mishaps, maybe it\u2019s appropriate that the experiment ultimately failed.<\/p>\n

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the best (official) Fantastic Four movie. You barely need to like it for that to be true. Marvel\u2019s original superstar team has had terrible luck on the big screen, from a low-budget 1994 Roger Corman movie that was never officially released to Tim Story\u2019s mid-2000s movies, which were not much improved by their availability on thousands of screens nationwide. In 2015, a pre-Disney Fox made a last-ditch attempt to reboot the property into\u2026 something. A proper companion piece for the studio\u2019s still-running X-Men movies? A bigger-budget version of Josh Trank\u2019s found-footage superhero project Chronicle? Anything, so long as it ended in Fox retaining the rights? Whatever Trank\u2019s 2015\u2019s Fantastic Four was supposed to be, it obviously didn\u2019t work out,…<\/p>\n

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