I’m not sure why but I never got into comics growing up. I also watched the super hero shows on TV like The Incredible Hulk, Batman, and Superman. In fact the only two super heroes that I cared about where Batman and Superman.

I didn’t know much about the Marvel super heroes except The Incredible Hulk and Spideman. I had and still have no clue who all the super heroes are in the Marvel or the DC universe. Maybe I had a depraved childhood but I just wasn’t really into the whole super hero genre.

With the release of the new Fantastic Four movie with Pedro Pascal, my son really wanted to see this while I was meh on it. I remember watching the two Fantastic Four movies with Jessica Alba. They were good but not great. With this new movie, I felt like Hollywood was using the same recycled movie formula for the next generation which really frustrates me.

Anyway, my son and I went to see it yesterday. My son loved it but for me it was good not great. The movie takes place during the 50s or 60s I guess. We get a anticlimactic recap of how the foursome got their super powers and the different villains they defeated which apparently only happens in one city for whatever reason. Yet the rest of the world knows who they are which didn’t make sense to me.

Maybe if I read more of the comics I would have a better understanding of who the Fantastic Four really are but the movie dragged halfway through but picked up when we meet Galactus a giant metal…thing that destroys planets. The foursome have to find a way to stop him or it from destroying Earth.

Overall, the movie is good. Not sure it was worth paying the money to see in the theater but at least I got some bonding time with my son.