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trivia

Don Payne has said the film is based upon Fantastic Four issue #48, in which Galactus also makes an appearance, as well as issues 57-60 in which Doom steals the Surfer's power. Payne has also said the film takes inspiration from the Ultimate Marvel limited series Ultimate Extinction.
Was given a PG rating by the MPAA, the first Marvel film since Howard the Duck (1986) to earn this rating.
The cameo scene where Stan Lee is refused entry to the wedding is in keeping with the comic series. In the 1960s story of Reed Richards and Susan Storm's wedding, two characters, obviously representing writer Stan Lee and artist/plotter Jack Kirby, are also not allowed to attend the wedding.
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Release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake title 'Broom Field'.
WILHELM SCREAM: When the Army and the Fantastic Four first have an up close encounter with the silver surfer.
Although the film uses the premise that the Silver Surfer gets his powers from his board, this is clearly not the case in the comics. In the comics, the Surfer is able to fly on his own and use his full gamut of powers without the aid of his surfboard. He uses it, however, as it significantly decreases the energy required for flight.
When The Torch falls into the sand in the Middle East and rolls over to his back, in close up shots you can see the "4" logo in the sand next to his head.
Reed's speech to General Hager about being a "good little nerd" is taken nearly verbatim from Ultimate Extinction #2 (in there, he was speaking to Nick Fury).
Supporting character "Captain Frankie Raye" shares her name with comic-book super-hero Nova's alter ego. In the comic-books Frankie Raye was a love interest of Johnny Storm and, as Nova, succeeded the Silver Surfer as herald of Galactus.
Tim Story once said that he would never have giant robots in any of his movies. In this film, Galactus, normally portrayed in the comics as something resembling a giant robot, is shown as a giant cloud.

goofs

When The Human Torch is chasing the Silver Surfer through a tunnel, all to the lights in the tunnel are glowing, despite the fact that, everywhere else the surfer went, he knocked out power.
During Reed and Johnny's "let's have a bachelor party" conversation scene in the lab, one of the shots is a mirror image (identifiable by reversed text on one of the book covers on the desk.)
When Johnny stole Thing's power early in the film, his voice does not change like Ben's did when he became the Thing. You can hear how different the voices are during the times when Ben is human again in the film.
At the starting sequence, when Silver Surfer tail freezes the ocean with a fishermen boat, we can see the ship with an the "Maritime Self-Defense Force version" (a Sun disc with 16 rays on a white field) of the Japan flag instead the one red disc Hinomaru version for civil boats.
As Von Doom lands his helicopter on the slab of ice to meet the Silver Surfer, the helicopter points toward the left side of the screen, but a few moments later, after the cut scene to the hole, the helicopter is seen pointing towards the right side of the screen. Another cut to the hole and back, the copter is back to facing the left.
When Johnny is in the kitchen talking to Ben before the wedding, he is not wearing his tux jacket and you can see he only has a t-shirt on under his dress shirt. Yet when he leaps off the building to chase after the Surfer, his clothes burn off and he is wearing his Fantastic Four outfit/costume, which was clearly not wearing under his tux.
When the power goes off during Silver Surfer's initial flights around the globe, you can see construction workers air powered jackhammer stop instantly. The jackhammer would have continued until the compressor's chamber had reduced of air pressure, not stopped immediately.
When we first see the Japanese fishing boat, an on-screen caption identifies it as being in "Struga Bay, Japan." In the news report of the event, however, a graphic behind the anchor identifies the location as "Suruga Bay, Japan."
When the Silver Surfer goes by the wedding in New York, the helicopter hovering nearby is shown to lose all electrical power. This in turn causes the helicopter to crash. The helicopter shown is powered by a turbine engine, which is self-sustaining once running, and does not require electrical power of any sort. Also, the systems are operated with mechanical hydraulic pumps, or simply mechanically, so that flight controls are still operable even when all electrical power is gone.
In the beginning at the airport on the news channel, the anchor woman talks about Reed and Sue's wedding, and it show's a picture of Reed and Sue, Sue has brown eyes in the picture. They also show the same picture of Sue and Reed on the front page of the newspaper.
During the final battle between the Fantastic 4 and Victor Von Doom in southeast Asia, the scenery constantly switches between the cities of Hong Kong and Shanghai, China.
During the final scene, as well as retaining his flame power when he absorbs everyone else's, Johnny's version of Thing's power is also able to turn on and off, which it clearly isn't for Thing, and wasn't for Johnny when he previously took it.
The final fight scene occurs in China, but at Reed and Sue's impromptu wedding, the women (Sue included) are wearing kimonos, the native costume of Japan.