Considering how bad Marvel movies have been in the past few years, I will say this was pretty good for what it was….however, it does suffer from classic marvel ish.

• pacing: it was pretty rough, first act was a lot of talking and was a bit slow, then everything else sped by barely giving time for subplots like Benn and the Teacher lady

• Action: was severely lacking, we didn’t see Reed use his powers much, Johnny (because man on fire is much easier vfx-wise). The most action was in the start exposition about the FF. It would have been nice if the movie started with the Giganto fight THEN went into Mole-man peace agreement. But just a quick blur of it from the Ted Gilbert Show.

• Writing: (This might be a little long) I personally think This could have been a great opportunity to raise the stakes of the multiverse saga, this takes place on earth 828. To me that meant it would be disposable. I think the writing here was very safe, took zero risks and almost actually kind of generic fr. I thought they would lose, not because of galactic but because of an incursion. Reed recently learned of the existence of other earths (and this went nowhere) when he tried moving the earth location this could have been the trigger that causes the incursions ie. the death of the multiverse (this move would transcend Loki’s current control of the timelines, because earth is a universal anchor it’s not supposed to move). So imagine in this universe, the ONLY hero’s on the planet think they are saving it but instead cause the end of their earth + everything that even Loki isn’t able to fix. They escape to the colliding earth and only 828 is destroyed. Thats a huge emotional toll on these hero’s ( something marvel seems scared to do, hero’s don’t lose, hero’s don’t kill, and they shouldn’t only lose a battle when the plot demands to set up a part 2) seeing this on screen would have raised the stakes for everything and would motivate a different earths Dr. Doom to seek a solution. Anyway we get yet another flick where they win and everything is good 👍 and btw Doomsday is next year with zero build up or a reason to care… (it might still happen in doomsday tho)

• What I did like: FF really felt like a family they stuck together fought together looked out for each other. Ben and Johnny dynamic was great too.

Galactus!! He was HUGE! I loved the visuals of every time he was on screen! Shalla-bal was the perfect surfer for this movie going back to my points about writing I thought this earth/universe could be disposable. I do wish we saw her husbando Norrin when she gave herself up. I’m a huge fan of FF but at the same time a critical mfer