Fantastic Four New Trailer Breakdown: 25 Things You Need To See

By Tom Baker /

10. (And Explosion Proof)

This new Fantastic Four trailer saves the best for last, with a post-title sting that is probably the best sales pitch for this film so far. It's funny and warm, with the characters joking with each other; it's also visually striking and totally badass, as The Thing is jettisoned out of what looks like a stealth bomber over some sort of military facility €“ perhaps that same one they escaped from, maybe not. Either way, seeing Jamie Bell's character being dropped from several thousand feet up in the air, minus a parachute, is a thrill. Visually and conceptually it's similar to shots in one of the recent Transformers films (where Optimus Prime leaps from a plane and the camera spirals down after him), and that one bit of Godzilla with the HALO jump. Except this one ends with Ben Grimm destroying a Hummer with his kinetic energy, standing undisturbed as the smoke clears. It's really damn cool and easily the defining image of this trailer.