When to take a bathroom break during The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is in UK cinemas now, and if you’re busting for the bathroom during the movie, here’s when to take a break.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps hit UK screens today before launching in America tomorrow, and we’ve got content for all your F4 needs.

Dexerto’s Fantastic Four: First Steps review is live, as are our guides for the Fantastic Four ending and First Steps post-credits scene. Or if you’re after something more historic, we’ve written about the Fantastic Four movie Marvel doesn’t want you to see, and ranked the four Fantastic films that followed.

But what if you need the loo during the movie? The below is when we recommend, though be warned – this information features mild SPOILERS for the middle of the movie.

Hit the bathroom when the Fantastic Four return from space

The Fantastic Four First Steps clocks in at 1 hour and 54 minutes, making it a relatively short Marvel movie. It’s also action-packed from start-to-finish, so ideally audiences will sit for the duration and not miss a moment.

But if nature calls and you really don’t have a choice, the best time to pop out is when the Fantastic Four return to Earth following their dramatic encounter with Galactus in space.

The moment occurs around the 50 minute mark, when their spaceship re-enters the atmosphere and Marvel’s First Family emerge with their new-born baby Franklin, to rapturous applause from onlookers.

You’ve then got a few minutes to do your thing, as the Fantastic Four explain and discuss what’s just happened, which is information we already know.

Reed first steps up to a podium and fields questions from the press, during which he reveals that the heroes failed in their mission to defeat Galactus, and that the planet-muncher asked too high a price to spare the planet.

“Are we safe?” comes the key question, to which Richards responds: “I don’t know.”

A brief scene between Galactus and Silver Surfer follows, in which the big guy says, “I need the child, I must get the child,” and talks about the baby’s infinite power being able to absorb his hunger so he can finally rest.

The Fantastic Four then discuss and debate the issue in front of a chalkboard, where we learn that Galactus pre-dates our universe and reality, making him an “unknowable life.”

Reed quotes Archimedes and says he needs a lever, but no solution is found or conclusions drawn at this point.

That should give you enough time to do any business, as the plot cracks on at around the one-hour mark, when Johnny figures out the key to Silver Surfer’s language, and Reed and Sue have a poignant argument as Richards continues his search for a “workable plan.”

Fantastic Four is in UK theaters now and US cinemas tomorrow. For more F4 action, find out why Fantastic Four takes place on Earth-828, and how parenthood inspired First Steps, plus where to get the Fantastic popcorn buckets.