How to stream all the Fantastic Four movies
With The Fantastic Four: First Steps starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn about to hit cinemas, you might be remembering it's not the first time the First Family of the MCU has hit the big screen in their bodysuits. But where can you stream the previous Fantastic Four movies to get hyped for the new one?
Here's a guide for you, but we're not saying all of these movies are actually fantastic.
1994's Fantastic Four animated series
Before we get into the not-so-fantastic movies, the 1994 Fantastic Four animated series is streaming on Disney+. Written by Ron Friedman and Glenn Leopold and based on Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Marvel comics, the series will clue you into how Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), Sue Storm (Invisible Woman), Ben Grimm (The Thing), and Johnny Storm (Human Torch) got their powers and includes episodes where they take on the mighty Silver Surfer and Galactus — the villains at the heart of The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
How to watch: Fantastic Four (1994) is now streaming on Disney+.
Roger Corman's 1994 live action film The Fantastic Four has become infamous for never being released in cinemas or on TV, so however you find that is up to you.
The mid-2000s Fantastic Four movies
Back in the mid-2000s, Hornblower fans were treated to Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards, alongside Sin City/Honey era Jessica Alba as Sue Storm. The Shield's Michael Chiklis took on a forlorn Ben Grimm and a pre-Captain America Chris Evans is a wise-cracking Johnny Storm — Evans made a cameo in last year's Deadpool and Wolverine in his original bratty MCU role.
This talented cast starred in two bodysuit-forward 20th Century Fox movies directed by Tim Story: 2005's Fantastic Four (with the late Julian McMahon as brooding businessman Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom; and 2007's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (with Laurence Fishburne voicing the pearly villain played by Doug Jones). And yes, Stan Lee makes a cameo in both. Unfortunately, both movies were critically panned, but have built a loyal audience of defenders online. I definitely saw both at the cinema and may have owned them on DVD for the narrative.
How to watch: Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer are both streaming on Disney+.
The 2015 Fantastic Four reboot
Then, in 2015, Fantastic Four saw the First Family completely recast and aged down in another critically panned movie. It was an undeniably superstar cast, with future Black Panther supervillain Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm, Kate Mara as Sue Storm, Miles Teller as Reed Richards, and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm, taking on Servant's Toby Kebbell as Dr. Doom. Unfortunately, it was even more critically panned than the 2000s versions. Equally as bodysuit-forward though.
How to watch: Fantastic Four is streaming on Disney+.
And never forget, you can catch John Krasinski as Mr. Fantastic in a cameo from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, now streaming on Disney+.
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Shannon Connellan is Mashable's Senior Editor, General Assignments, based in London. She has been Mashable's UK Editor (and still manages the illustrious UK team) and Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives searching for Exit 8. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror, and loves to nerd out with movie stars, filmmakers, and TV creators.
