Posted on 07/25/2025 1:08:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the most pro-life Hollywood blockbuster in a long time, and maybe ever.
The new Fantastic Four film is, in a word, fantastic.
Its 1950s futuristic aesthetic was charming, with a dash of campiness, courtesy of characters like Mole Man and his underground haven, “Subterranea.” The score was fitting, the characters well-developed, the plot easy to follow, and the dialogue believable. The jokes landed for not trying too hard, with relatable dynamics between spouses, best friends, siblings, and colleagues. If you can get past Pedro Pascal’s off-screen antics, his portrayal of the quirky Mr. Fantastic lives up to the name.
But more than all these other factors, easily the most outstanding aspect of the film is its overtly pro-life message. It’s the entire point of the plot.
(Warning: spoilers!)
In the opening moments of the film, astronauts-turned-superheroes Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby) and her husband Reed Richards (Pascal) — imbued with extrahuman powers after encountering cosmic rays in outer space that leave their DNA radically altered — react with glee to a positive pregnancy test. After having written off the possibility following two years of unsuccessful attempts to conceive, they welcome the news that their lives are about to be turned upside down by the new life growing inside her womb — despite the many unknowns.
And they have more of those than most people. Will the child of two mutated parents be deformed? Will he be a monster? A superhero? An ordinary child in a family of extraordinaries?
Yet Sue’s brother, Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn), and family friend and soon-to-be surrogate uncle Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) respond with as much delight. Despite the fears and questions, everybody is thrilled at the news, and Reed and his robot assistant, H.E.R.B.I.E.,...
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Worst review I saw of it was of course Pascal, and that at the end it was a girlboss team-up that stopped Galacticus.
Oh yeah, and THE WORST is that they made the Silver Surger a woman! Wha the crap!?
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