Tag: The Fantastic Four: First Steps

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...