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The 2015 reboot of Fantastic Four (AKA Fant4stic) was made by 20th Century Fox primarily to hold onto the film rights for the Marvel team and prevent Marvel Studios from making a potential profit off of the characters, but unlike Fox\'s acclaimed instalments in the X-Men franchise, or Sony\'s moderately successful Amazing Spider-Man series, it definitely shows here, with shoddy characterisation, poor pacing (the first half of the film is fairly slow, with excessive exposition, whilst the second half is pretty rushed, evidently due to its Troubled Production), and being needlessly Darker and Edgier (for instance, the Thing\'s catchphrase \
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The 2015 reboot of Fantastic Four (AKA Fant4stic) was made by 20th Century Fox primarily to hold onto the film rights for the Marvel team and prevent Marvel Studios from making a potential profit off of the characters, but unlike Fox\\\'s [[Film/XMenFirstClass acclaimed]] [[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast instalments]] in the [[Film/XMen X-Men franchise]], or Sony\\\'s moderately successful [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan Amazing Spider-Man]] series, it [[TheyJustDidntCare definitely shows here]], with shoddy characterisation, poor pacing (the first half of the film is fairly slow, with excessive exposition, whilst the second half is pretty rushed, evidently due to its Troubled Production), and being needlessly Darker and Edgier (for instance, the Thing\\\'s catchphrase \\\"It\\\'s clobbering time!\\\" is used by Ben Grimm\\\'s older brother before abusing his younger sibling). It ended up with a 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a 4.1 on IMDB, and its box office receipts barely exceeded its production budget worldwide.
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