World's Greatest!

"Oh! Oh my--!" a shudder at the sudden hands on her waist. Shuffling closer. No sense leaving so much of a gap. Kara could likely hear the extra edge in her breath anyway.

"Well, alright. I'll spoil it for you." A cocky snicker leaves her lips, their bodies tightly mingled in that familiar way, soaked in Kara's confidence. Brilliant blue eyes were beaming with delight.

The cyan of her costume smoothly stretched across the other woman. Hers is a royal blue. Neither of them as blue as her eyes. Blue is the warmest color. She heard that somewhere. A movie, perhaps?

"Oh! Oh my--!" a shudder at the sudden hands on her waist. Shuffling closer. No sense leaving so much of a gap. Kara could likely hear the extra edge in her breath anyway.

Vanessa is a perfect depiction of Susan in my eyes. She's spoken about her in interviews and seems to genuinely be Susan-pilled in ways these actors don't normally get. The rest of the main cast are sublime. It's very telling that some people come out of it thinking it's Reed's movie; others think it's Susan's, or Johnny's. Really speaks to how well spread out the focus is. The only real odd one out is Ben, but...well, we'll get to that.

It really conveys the appeal of what the FF are. This is an adventure movie where the biggest thrills come from chase sequences or clever uses of their powers. The drama is actually centred around a personal choice the characters are faced with, and it feels weighty in a way that highlights how much of a snoozer these things tend to be.

However, there's a lot that's clearly been cut throughout the film. ~20 minutes were removed, including a lot of the first act and it definitely shows. Much of Ben's plotline has clearly been excised. I think it says a lot that FF fans generally agree that the film nailed each character, but general audiences have somewhat struggled to immediately get on board with them. Shakman has already said their won't be a director's cut (likely due to the amount of VFX needed with Ben and the Super-Apes action scene). And quite honestly, the fact the film is so close to being cleanly ideal is such a bee in my bonnet. I struggle to look back on the film fully content, because I know there's a better version that the director wanted to make. Alas...I suppose we just have to wait for the bonus features on the blu ray.