Fantastic Four

The Fantastic Four: First Steps Year: 2025 Rating: PG-13 Length: 115 minutes / 1.92 hours Now that Marvel has control of most of its intellectual property again, I’m glad that they took the same approach with The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) as they did with Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). We don’t need another origin story here. What was more interesting was how the multiverse plotline running through these phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) allowed for an alternate 1950s aesthetic for this movie instead of integrating it directly into the main MCU timeline. This allowed the re-introduction of one of the most famous superhero groups in a way that let them breathe without having a bunch of MCU references leak into it. Since they attempt to make a Fantastic Four movie every 10 years, this third time may actually stick because they paid attention to the golden age of comics. The costumes and setting make it feel like it’s pulled straight from the comics...

Fantastic Four Year: 2015 Rating: PG-13 Length: 100 minutes / 1.67 hours For a movie with "fantastic" in its title, it's anything but. It's difficult to make a movie that's worse than the original that was released a decade earlier, but here we are. I understand the need to reboot a franchise so the owners of the rights can continue to hold onto those rights, but this is just a sad excuse for a movie. I only hope—now that Disney owns this franchise—that the next reboot of the Fantastic Four doesn't spend any time on its origin story (which we've seen twice now). While the casting for the main characters was technically proficient, if not a little young, I was stunned to see such wooden and emotionless acting from absolutely every actor on the screen. If I didn't know any better, they replaced these actors with CGI robots who state their lines instead of, you know, acting. Additionally, there didn't seem to be any stakes...

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MOVIE: The Fantastic Four – First Steps (2025)

MOVIE: Fantastic Four (2015)