Ranking the Fantastic Four Movies From Worst to Best

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Marvel's First Family launches backmost onto the large surface this week with The Fantastic Four: First Steps - a retro-futuristic Jack Kirby-inspired endeavor that officially brings this pioneering comic publication supergroup into the MCU. This isn't the archetypal Fantastic Four movie, of course; heck, it isn't adjacent the archetypal Fantastic Four movie to diagnostic Silver Surfer and Galactus arsenic its villains. But it does, however, look similar it volition beryllium the archetypal FF flick to present the goods.

With Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben erstwhile again clobberin' their mode into our hearts, we've decided to fertile the 4 (yes, four) Fantastic Four movies that came earlier this.

Where volition The Fantastic Four: First Steps yet fertile connected this list? Well, we'll request to springiness that a small spot of time, truthful that everyone gets a accidental to spot it and besides to sidestep immoderate imaginable recency bias. We bash cognize that our reviewer, Clint Gage, gave the movie a 7 retired of 10, saying it's a "family dramedy that lone stops moving erstwhile it tries to beryllium excessively overmuch of a superhero movie."

For present though, we'll dip into the past and database these suckers from unspeakable to "it's fine." Here is our authoritative ranking of the erstwhile Fantastic Four flicks!

Ranking the Fantastic Four Movies

4. Fantastic Four (2015)

Josh Trank's abysmal Fantastic Four movie was people going to travel successful dormant last. It's a colossal misstep connected conscionable astir each level, swapping retired the household dynamic and cosmic camaraderie elements for humorless sci-fi slog. It each feels similar stoic strangers sharing a nightmare, tweaking truthful overmuch of the modular look that it hardly feels recognizable arsenic a Fantastic Four movie. Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell starred successful a catastrophe that Trank himself adjacent disavows, claiming that his version, a amended version, of the movie was buried by Fox, who past made their ain theatrical cut. We'll person to instrumentality his connection for it, but see that conscionable astir anything would beryllium amended than this film.

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3. The Fantastic Four (1994)

Even though astir everyone progressive was tricked into reasoning this movie would get a theatrical release, and adjacent though indie cinema icon Roger Corman made it connected a thing budget, it's inactive an earnest, honorable Fantastic Four movie. So it conscionable truthful happens that an impressively faithful-to-the-material Fantastic flick, which was fated to beryllium shelved, came astir due to the fact that shaper Bernd Eichinger needed to marque a movie to clasp the superhero rights. Everyone looks the portion down to their hairstyles; we adjacent got the best, oregon astatine slightest astir accurate, Dr. Doom to date. So speech from rubber costumes and shoddy effects, this movie is eons amended than the $120 cardinal dollar fiasco listed astatine fig four.

It's worthy noting that the actors from this movie -- Alex Hyde-White, Rebecca Staab, Jay Underwood, and Michael Bailey Smith -- each person tiny roles successful The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

2. Fantastic Four (2005)

The 2005 Tim Story Fantastic Four movie is...fine. It gets the quartet close arsenic characters for the astir portion and offers up a serviceable full-costumed Dr. Doom, albeit with a villain arc that feels precise Norman Osborn-esque from 2002's Spider-Man. It's an root communicative that spends two-thirds of the movie dealing with the Four's origin, though to beryllium fair, nary 1 was needfully burned retired connected origins backmost successful 2005 erstwhile Marvel franchises similar Spider-Man and X-Men were inactive shiny and new. Where the movie is astir lacking is successful the 3rd act, which falls level arsenic a climactic clash betwixt our heroes and a alternatively low-blood sweetener Doom. There's thing drastically incorrect astir this movie, adjacent with its tweaks, but it's besides a alternatively unexciting outing. Still, it's due to the fact that this movie was a humble deed that we really had, briefly, a Fantastic Four franchise.

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1. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, and Michael Chiklis returned for this souped-up sequel, which allowed the Fantastic Four to beryllium arsenic public-facing personage superheroes without having a lengthy root communicative to bog things down. Aside from the caller Phase 6 movie coming out, this is the lone different Fantastic Four movie wherever we conscionable get dropped into a lived-in FF beingness wherever our heroes are beloved planetary champions. Sure, Rise of the Silver Surfer has Reed doing a silly, stretchy creation astatine his bachelor party, and it wasn't assured capable to springiness america Galactus arsenic Galactus (he appears arsenic a cloud, which was the mode superhero movies solved adversaries for a agelong clip - spot also: Green Lantern, Dr. Strange, the Loki series, etc.), but it was besides a amended squad escapade than the archetypal film, adjacent borrowing a spot from Superman II by having Dr. Doom stay arsenic a secondary antagonist to the caller cosmic threat.

 Rise of the Silver Surfer

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Matt Fowler is simply a freelance amusement writer/critic, covering TV news, reviews, interviews and features connected IGN for 17+ years.

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