Agreed. I'm thinking the cast is too old as well. It's a hard film to cast. Kirby works well as Sue Storm. However, comic book wise? Richards was always older than the others. I mean they aren't youngsters - they are in their 30s in the comics. The X-men are in their late 20s. The problem with comic books - is the characters don't tend to age at all. They are perpetually in their twenties and thirties.

I don't know who I'd cast as Reed. I didn't like John Krasinski in the part - and apparently neither did Kevin Fiege or he wasn't available. I looked at the others up for it? And just no. Well except for maybe Dev Patel .

The hardest teams to cast are the most popular in Marvel comics - The Fantastic Four and the X-men.
And the hardest characters? Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Emma Frost. Those are really hard to cast well.

The guy they hired to play Ben Grimm - is perfect casting. And Vanessa Kirby is a good choice for Sue Storm - although I'd have cast her as Emma Frost. But I'm on the fence about Johnny Storm and Reed Richards. Also Fox did four Fantastic Four films - and screwed them up. They also screwed up with the X-men, although they did manage to achieve perfect casting on three of the X-men characters(Magneto, Professor X, Wolverine).