Here is Cinephile Corner’s ranking of every Fantastic Four movie from worst to best:
3. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
2. Fant4stic (2015)
Fantastic Four, often mockingly stylized as Fant4stic thanks to its awkward poster design and misfire of a marketing campaign, has become something of a cinematic punchline in the decade since its release. Directed by Josh Trank, this reboot of Marvel’s original superhero family has been dissected, dismissed, and memed into infamy. Revisiting it now, some of the initial scorn still holds, but with a bit of distance, Fantastic Four also serves as a compelling time capsule—a reflection of mid-2010s Hollywood’s frenzied push for its own interconnected superhero universes.
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1. Fantastic Four (2005)
With a new Fantastic Four film poised to reintroduce the characters to a new generation of audiences, this 2005 outing is best remembered as a learning experience—a misfire that helped pave the way for future adaptations to get it right. As it stands, Fantastic Four is little more than a dated relic, watchable only for curiosity’s sake, and not because it earns a place in the canon of great superhero cinema.