The explanation I like the best is that it all boils down to Franklin Richards. Time more or less moved concurrent to real time until Franklin was around 4 or 5 I think, where he aged himself up into his thirties, the FF not knowing who this grown man was who showed up randomly in the Baxter building started to beat…

I will forever love this movie for the sole reason that it takes place in San Antonio. My city doesn’t get enough love and it was a trip when I saw this in theaters and recognized the landmarks in the movie as things I saw every day.