This year has just got a whole lot better for Marvel. After the below-par Captain America: Brave New World and the solid-if-so-so Thunderbolts*, we have the MCU’s best movie in a while, The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Later, the 2015 reboot by Josh Trank flopped, isolated as it was from the so-called Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Much like James Gunn’s recent Superman, First Steps dispenses with the oft-told origin story here. We start four years on from Storm, her brother Johnny (Joseph Quinn), her partner Reed (Pedro Pascal) and their friend Ben Grimm (The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach) flying into space, returning with unexpected superpowers.
Cursed with what Reed calls "cosmically compromised DNA", this Fab Four has become the planet’s protectors.
And then there’s Grimm, now The Thing. This brick-built bruiser even has his own catchphrase ("It’s clobberin’ time!") thanks to a popular animated TV cartoon – a nice meta-nod to the various real-life animated series from the past.
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It’s the ultimate moral quandary: rescue civilisation or your as-yet-unborn child. "I am not giving him up," screams Sue, in a moment where the stakes feel equally both global and personal.
View Green Video on the source websitePaul Walter Hauser, meanwhile, has a very enjoyable cameo as Mole Man, a subterranean villain who gets called upon in Earth’s hour of need.
One of First Steps’ real selling points is the design, a world of retro-futuristic chic, where every room seems to boast an Eames chair.
True, this is basically primer for next year’s blockbuster bonanza Avengers: Doomsday, when this quartet will be on hand along with others to battle Robert Downey Jr’s Doctor Doom.
But First Steps doesn’t stumble. With a standalone story that stays upright, it’s a vivacious, beautifully rendered and largely enjoyable comic book spectacle. Marvel needed this, you feel.
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