Original subtitles

♪ (intense music)

(tires screeching)

(tires screeching)

♪ (intense music)

(water bubbling)

(explosion)

(tires screeching)

♪ (intense music)

(explosion)

♪ (intense music)

♪ (intense music)

- Imagine the famous thing lugging a piano across town.

I hope none of my fans are watching.

Hey, what's going on?

Is this piano getting bigger?

♪ (intense music)

Worse yet, I'm getting smaller!

(explosion)

♪ (intense music)

There's something funny here, but I don't feel like laughing.

I better skedaddle back to FF headquarters.

♪ (intense music)

- Getting across this street could be a problem.

Now I know how an ant feels.

Here goes!

(explosion)

- Hey Chino, look!

What are those mechanical kid noise?

- Let's get it!

(tires screeching)

- Hey, watch it you roadhogs!

(tires screeching)

Uh-oh, they're coming back!

This'll slow them down!

(tires screeching)

Touché, ya bums!

♪ (somber music)

- Let that be a lesson!

The next time, pick on somebody your own size!

♪ (somber music)

Oh dear, why do I come to these bargain sales?

(tires screeching)

What in the world?

I'm shrinking!

This is impossible!

This mob, I'll be trampled!

I must get to the wall!

I better duck in this mouth hole!

It's not the rips, but at least I'm safe!

Oh!

(phone rings)

I spoke too soon!

She's protecting her young!

No sense in becoming invisible!

She would just sniff me out!

My force field will protect me!

(tires screeching)

But I'm trapped!

And I can't stay here forever!

Good thing Reed taught me judo!

I'll try it!

(crash)

Sorry, Mrs. Mouse!

If I can just get home to the Baxter Building,

maybe Reed can figure out what has happened to me!

♪ (tires screeching)

If you kill the success, might as well head for home!

Hey! Great Scott, I'm shrinking!

I'm gonna die!

It'll crash into the city!

Can't move the controls!

It'll crash!

Those people!

If I could just throw the switch

and it'll land itself back at the Baxter Building!

There!

♪ (tires screeching)

Now to get back and figure out this shrinking business!

Hope the others are okay!

♪ (tires screeching)

Hey Sue! Ben! Johnny!

- Oh Reed! Not you too!

- Well that's tears if we're all runs!

- Listen to me!

Who's that?

Beware!

Fantastic Four!

Beware!

- Oh boy! Now I'm hearing voices!

(thunder rumbling)

- Boy, next to flaming on,

this is the most fun a guy can have!

(thunder rumbling)

Hey! What's happening?

I'm shrinking!

Yeah!

Ben's about to blow me away!

Flame on!

(thunder rumbling)

Just in time, I better get back to headquarters

and see if Reed can explain this!

♪ (tires screeching)

- Hey! Where is everybody?

- Johnny! Help!

(thunder rumbling)

- Sue! Where are you?

- Over here! Help!

♪ (tires screeching)

- No! They're tiny too!

And they're about to be pulled into that air intake!

- Hey! Be careful Johnny!

It'll pull you in if you get too close!

- Beware Fantastic Four!

Beware of Dr. Doom!

Oh! Help!

- Dr. Doom!

I thought we'd seen the last of him.

He's still alive!

♪ (tense music)

- So Princess, your warnings were useless!

Now watch the Fantastic Four struggle

in the clutches of Dr. Doom!

(laughing)

Observe their puny efforts and their endeavor

to avoid the air duct.

- Oh, how can anyone be so cruel?

- That, my lady, is why the world fears Dr. Doom!

(laughing)

- Ben! I'm slipping!

- Johnny, do something quick!

- Get that fan turned off!

- Hang on, Sue!

I'll try and weld it shut!

Here goes!

(explosion)

- Look out! Don't get too close!

- Johnny! Be careful!

- Get back! It's too risky!

- Sorry, it's your only chance!

- You're getting it, Johnny!

- Just a few more fireballs!

♪ (tense music)

There!

- You've got it!

Just in the nick of time!

Good shooting, hot stuff!

You can pitch on my team anytime!

And speaking of teams,

how about our manager explaining this?

- Well, Ben, I do have a theory.

But first, we'll have to climb up to the eyepiece

of my new electronoscope.

- No problem. I can boost and you can stretch!

Let's go!

♪ (tense music)

- Sorry, I couldn't fly everybody up here,

but Ben's been putting on weight!

- Oh, now stop your jacket!

- When you look into this electronoscope,

you'll be the first humans beside myself

to have ever seen an atom.

Now look!

♪ (tense music)

Note that it looks much like a planet

with satellites orbiting around it.

They are protons!

♪ (tense music)

It's possible that atoms actually are tiny planets,

capable of supporting microscopic life forms

similar to our own.

- Life is similar to ours and so small a form?

- Yes, and if so, Dr. Du may have ended up

on some such atom planets or micro-world.

It's quite possible that this could be his headquarters.

- A clever guess, Richards,

but it will take more than just work

to get you out of this situation.

(helicopter whirring)

- Hey, we're shrinking again!

- This is getting to be a habit!

- What's happening?

- I think we're heading for a micro-world.

♪ (tense music)

- Welcome to the micro-world of Dr. Doom!

(laughing)

I've enjoyed toying with you four!

You manage very well in front of the air intake ducts,

but now you are my prisoners!

Chain them!

- Nobody's gonna chain the ever-loving thing!

It's claverin' time!

♪ (dramatic music)

- Climb on!

♪ (tense music)

- There, that'll take care of the spirit!

♪ (tense music)

- No, you don't!

- Stop them, you fools!

- Not for you, old dying face!

- Bah!

- Did you think you would catch me unprepared?

♪ (tense music)

- Hey, what's that?

- Another shrinking frequency ray!

- Here we go again!

(laughing) How do you enjoy your diminutive size?

- We don't!

Not with you around you, big tin, eh?

- Enough of that grim!

But tell me, Richards,

what do you think of my power over human reduction?

- Absolutely amazing, Dr. Doom!

But how did you discover the micro-world?

- I see no harm in relating to scientific discovery.

Are you interested?

- Fantastic Four are always interested!

Proceed, Dr. Doom!

It all happened quite by accident.

It was when I received a full burst

of the shrinking ray I was working on.

It was then that I began my descent

into the micro-world, even as you did.

Reaching here, I found myself in a peaceful, happy world.

It made my blood boil.

Upon meeting the King,

I presented him with a simple telescope

that I had constructed out of scrap.

This won me the appointment as Royal Scientist.

I immediately built a new molecular shrinking ray

that would cause growth as well as reduction.

The first to sample its power

were the King and his daughter, Perla.

I became the ruler of the land.

My last invention enabled me to see

and communicate with the world above.

Hence, your presence.

But now, the game is over.

And you have lost.

- Not yet, we haven't.

♪♪

- Golf! - Golf!

- I'm with you, Ben. - Me, too.

- Flame on! - Back to bed!

- Go invisible.

Get a little bit of the control

through the rest of the shrinking ray.

- Right! - Help!

Johnny! - Hang on, Ben!

- Thanks, hot tough.

- You died!

- Ow!

- Ahh!

♪♪

- Surround them!

Don't let Ben get away!

- Oh, and a moron!

I'm outlined in light!

- Got you, my dear.

Your invisibility is useless now.

Hold you puny mites!

Here, I have your invisible girl!

- Yeah, we see you have, and we're gonna get her back.

- Come on, gang!

- Really?

- That may prove difficult.

♪♪

- Cash!

Ahh!

- And freeze!

- Heh, heh, heh.

- Freeze, Ben, Johnny, no!

- Yeah, take all four and put them with the others.

- That's good.

At least we'll all be together.

♪♪

♪♪

- You're watching "Boomer Action" on "Boomer Action."

From Carthon, Denver.

- Where are we?

- We're in prison with the king and Princess Perlock.

- Good. The others are reviving, too.

- I understand that you are from the same world

as the tyrant Dr. Doom.

- That is true, Your Majesty.

- Yeah, but we're not bragging about it.

- Will I get my hands on Mr. Tint?

- That will be difficult.

We are in a stone prison under a sea of deadly acid.

There is no escape.

- Hey, bad boys.

You're the one who warned us.

- Yes, it was I.

But Dr. Doom caught me in the act

before I could explain the circumstances.

- So he threw you in here?

Well, I'm getting us out.

Acid or no acid?

Ben, no!

(explosion)

- Now, what's a big idea, Junior?

- You want to destroy us all, you big ox?

- Big ox, is it?

Why, you little--

- He ain't so. You fight each other now.

- Dr. Doom?

- No, sir. Just his pseudo image.

- Correct. I have sent my image here

to tell you of my plans.

Observe my thought projections of your future.

Soon, these lizard men of Toc,

a nearby micro planet, will arrive.

They are feared far and wide and are coming here for you.

You shall all be slaves.

Richard shall be chained to the scientific equipment

for the rest of his days.

The thing, because of his great strength,

will slave in the minds of Toc.

He will dig and burrow till he drops.

And the human torch will be forced

to help the lizard men in their wars.

They will exhaust his flaming powers

and destroy him when they're gone.

And last, the invisible girl.

She will pass the years as a kitchen grudge

for the merciless lizard men.

Such is your fate, fantastic fool.

The lizard men are landing even now.

Thus, you shall pay for thwarting the will of Dr. Doom.

- Oh, horrible.

Oh, and it's too late to save yourself.

The lizard men are here.

Don't bet on it.

(suspenseful music)

Hail Toc, your arrival does us great honor.

The slaves I promised you await.

Have you brought me the material?

- Yes, the reduction is aboard my ship.

For what purpose do you use the mineral?

It is worthless.

- Worthless to you.

But reduction is the essential element

for my shrieking process.

I am happy that it is so plentiful on Toc.

You get the slaves in I,

the means of reducing Earth's entire population.

At last, I shall rule the world.

And the fantastic four are helpless to stop me.

(suspenseful music)

- I still wish you'd let me poke a hole through the wall.

- Impossible.

The acid would finish us in seconds.

- Reed, these walls are acid resistant,

or the acid would have burned through.

- Hey, that gives me an idea.

If we can get some strips off this rock

without causing a leak,

we might be able to get out of here.

Journey, flame on,

and see if you can cut some strips off.

- Right, I'll give it a try.

(suspenseful music)

When this stone is heated,

it becomes just like soft clay.

- That couldn't be better.

Let's get started while it's still pliable.

- Reed, Ben has another sheet.

Do you need any more?

- No, that should do it.

Bring the last slab for the hatch.

Sue, concentrate your force field

where we remove the slabs.

Then get in.

- How's that?

- Okay, don't activate it.

Come on.

Okay, Ben, you get the hatch after I get in.

- Gotcha.

All right, Sue, activate your force field.

(explosion)

When we get to the surface,

we must immediately get the doom-shrinking equipment.

Stand by.

(explosion)

- We made it.

Doom's equipment is over in that building.

- Let's go.

Perla can bring the others over.

(suspenseful music)

- Spread out.

We need room when we grow.

- Okay, here we go.

(water bubbling)

- Man, that's better.

- Nobody told me that, it tickles.

- Your majesty, the Fantastic Four,

are now going to attack the lizard men on equal grounds.

We want to protect you, so please stay behind us.

- We shall do as you say,

but we shall be close behind you.

I suggest we proceed to the royal gardens

outside the throne room.

There you will find King Tuck and Dr. Doom.

- Oast number three.

- All's well.

(suspenseful music)

Help, come to the guard.

Help, the prisoner.

- It's clobberin' time.

(suspenseful music)

- Surrender in the name of Dr. Doom.

(suspenseful music)

(dramatic music)

- That's all for the lizard guards.

Let's get on to the palace.

(suspenseful music)

- The prisoners from above have escaped.

Doom will have our heads.

- I did it, no.

- The Fantastic Four are in my service.

The Emperor, he is alive, not dead, as we were told.

These are our friends.

They will save us from the horrendous Dr. Doom.

Gather your troops and follow the Fantastic Four.

- I must congratulate you on your achievements

and best wishes for your conquest.

- Now, where are my slaves, the Fantastic Four?

- Right behind you, lizard man.

- You, you're free, impossible.

- Surrender to him.

We have rescued the Emperor

and your soldiers are now on our side.

- Surrender, bah, I can still defeat you.

- Not with this pistol.

- The Invisible Girl.

- I must freeze.

- He's gettin' away.

- Let him go.

- That coward, I must join my men.

- Give them attack.

- More lizard men.

- She's them.

- Johnny, to the throne and grasp the control.

- Drinking rain, one.

- That takes care of the lizard men quicker than fighting.

- Reed, King Toc got away with two of his men.

- He'll bring reinforcements if he isn't stopped.

Let's go.

- Woo!

- They're ready for takeoff.

- We're too late.

- Oh no, we're not.

Now for a little batting practice.

- Hey, hold on!

- Your empire is safe.

The lizard men are gone.

- Now for Dr. Dune.

- You won't find him here.

He turned the ray on himself

and is now back on your world.

- If that is so, then our world is in imminent danger.

We must hasten our return.

We shall use the big machine

and leave together immediately.

- Goodbye, Your Highnesses.

We leave you with regret.

- Farewell, Fantastic Four.

We shall never forget you.

(roaring)

- Well, we're all safe and sound.

I've been on a lot of rides, but that was the wildest.

(laughing)

What's so funny?

- I said it before and I'll say it again.

That shrinking thing tickles.

(laughing)

Tickle tickle.

(dramatic music)

(roaring)

(screaming)

(screaming)

(dramatic music)

(roaring)

(dramatic music)

(bubbling)

(roaring)

(dramatic music)

(roaring)

(roaring)

(dramatic music)