The movie Fant4stic (I jokingly call it that) has widely been considered an awful film. The funny part is, it isn’t aesthetically different from its counterparts.
Like many modern superhero films like Man of Steel, The Dark Knight, and Midnight Special, Fant4stic has gritty color correction and an aesthetic that makes it feel more grounded. This dark tone, however, backfires for this film, as the desaturated color makes the film’s world feel depressing and gloomy, and the seriousness of the story and the characters clash with the plot’s more cartoony elements.
Fant4stic was originally going to have a sequel, and the movie was engineered in many respects to have its own expanded franchise, but Twentieth Century Fox (which distributed the film) halted development for the sequel after the original bombed at the box office. If the first movie isn’t good, no one will want a sequel, much less a franchise.
What’s interesting is that Fant4stic is the first ensemble superhero movie to bomb at the box office in a long time. With hits such as the X-Men and Avengers movies and Guardians of the Galaxy, Fant4stic’s group of superheroes weren’t appealing to audiences, especially with the controversy of casting a black actor to play Human Torch, a white character in the comics.
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