Final Fantastic Four Trailer is a Frustrating Mess

There wasn’t much to be excited about during the Fox panel at Comic-Con other than the fact that the casts of X-Men: Apocalypse, Wolverine, Deadpool, Gambit and Fantastic Four, plus Stan Lee, took a group photo together. Now, in a way that could have been the first hint at a shared universe, meaning an X-Men and Fantastic Four crossover that has already been rumored of late. One telling piece of that moment, though, was how distant and seemingly uninterested the Fantastic Four cast seemed in comparison to the rest. That may have just been a result of where they were placed on stage, but still.

Anyway, now we’ve got this final trailer for the movie, which I’ve mostly been on board for since the beginning — I love Josh Trank‘s Chronicle, and I’ve been excited about the talented cast they’ve assembled and really I am just hopeful that they’ll all do something interesting with this team. And aside from seemingly giving away the whole movie, this last effort to convince people to see Fantastic Four is a dark, muddled mess. Oh, well, there is an almost bright sequence in the middle that looks like it was cut from the climax of Avengers: Age of Ultron, but the rest does not look appealing.

It’s a shame, because the start of this trailer, showing us a prologue of Reed Richards’ youth (we’re seriously really seeing the whole movie here), looks like something I’d want to see. It’s very Explorers and ’80s-Amblin with its kid science adventure feel. Of course, you could also say it looks like this year’s Chronicle-esque time-travel movie Project Almanac, which isn’t as much of a compliment.  I still want to be hopeful that the marketing on this movie is just not doing any justice to the thing as a whole. We’ll see very soon.

Fantastic Four, which stars Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell as the titular superheroes, opens on August 7th.

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