Watch the grim final trailer for Fantastic Four
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20th Century Fox knows you're skeptical about the new Fantastic Four reboot. With Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man snagging most of this summer's superhero buzz — and with two lousy Fantastic Four movies still fresh in many minds — did we really need yet another blockbuster designed to launch an entire sprawling superhero franchise?
Maybe, they hope, this final trailer will convince you that you want a new Fantastic Four after all:
This final trailer certainly works hard to convince audiences that the new Fantastic Four will be grim, murky, and dour. It worked for Batman, but will it work for a team of superheroes whose powers include super-stretching, invisibility, and fire-starting? We'll see if people are buying what 20th Century Fox is selling when Fantastic Four arrives next month.
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Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.
