Continuity mistake: When Johnny is walking out of the dirt bike stadium, he has his arms around two women's shoulders. The shot changes, now the two women are holding on to his arms. The shot changes again, and now his arms are free. It happens too fast for him to just let go of the women. (01:00:35)
Continuity mistake: After Johnny Storm jumps from the Baxter Building, a close up of him coming from the left is inverted, as seen from the inverted "4" on his chest. (01:21:35)
Continuity mistake: When Mr. Fantastic is writing a problem on his chalkboard, right before the camera switches to Von Doom picking at his scar, you can see that Mr. Fantastic already wrote 4= Sxlo -4 and underlined it. When the camera goes back to Mr. Fantastic after the picking of the scar, he is now writing 4= Sxlo -4 and underlining it. (00:51:05)
Continuity mistake: Vic offers to take Sue's things to one of his condos. While he says "You'll have 'round the clock care'" he is holding dark-colored pants. The camera cuts to Susan while she says "Thank you, thats very generous." When the camera cuts back to Vic, he is now holding blue pants with a light-colored shirt wrapped around it. (00:44:25)
Continuity mistake: When The Thing gets his pancakes served the butter on top of them change position between shots. (01:11:40)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Vic shows Sue the world from the ship, it goes to a shot where Reed finds a problem, when he says "thats impossible it should be 7 hours", The screen show H2 9.44, the next shot it changes to 9.44, the H2 is gone. (00:11:10)
Trivia: Fantastic Four creator (and Marvel editor-in-chief) Stan Lee has a cameo as Willy Lumpkin, the Four's mailman. It was his only Marvel movie cameo based on an actual comic character.
Continuity mistake: When the blind woman is leaving the pub, her seeing-eye assistant is bringing her to the door. The woman turns around to say goodbye to The Thing again, her whole body is facing him. When the shot goes to Thing's face & then back to her, she is looking over her shoulder at him. (01:05:50)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Mr Fantastic walks in on Invisible Girl as she steps out of the shower, we see her covering up with a red towel, but in the next shot, it's a brown towel. (00:55:45)
Answer: Ever see Aliens 3? When a metal gets hot, it expands. When it suddenly cools, it doesn't contract evenly and often shatters or pops. It would seem he was made of a tougher metal than we thought, as he's still in one piece, but immobilised (for the moment...).
James King III