SourceI left training on Friday, super excited to see The Fantastic Four: First Steps after talking to another student who had watched the movie the night before. I was going to watch the movie anyway, but he really sold it to me.
I had watched all the previous Fantastic Four movies before watching First Steps, so I was familiar with the story of the Fantastic Four and was ready to enjoy the new MCU version of the story.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps was a lot different from the previous Fantastic Four movies. First Steps gives you the backstory of how the Fantastic Four got their powers within the first few minutes, then gets right into the action.
First steps is just a good old-fashioned superhero adventure movie. You don't have to worry about knowing anything about any other Marvel movies. They don't waste a lot of time showing you how much the heroes sucked before they got superpowers. They get the powers, they beat up monsters, and people love the heroes from the start of the movie.
My honest opinion of the movie as a whole was that it was pretty mid. But understadibally mid. There wasn't a lot about the movie that I hated, but the movie ultimately felt like a setup for Avengers: Doomsday. There were some things that they did well in the movie, but nothing that was big-time over-the-top amazing.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps was just a solid superhero adventure story. It wasn't as fun to watch as the Fantastic Four movies of the early 2000s, but still entertaining in its own dramatic way. They kept things pretty conservative in the MCU version.
They seemed to keep the story a lot more consistent with the comics, unlike the 2015 version of the Fantastic Four, which wasn't a great movie at all. First Steps is set in the 60s, so a lot of the tech in the movie has a 60s look to it, but works in a futuristic way, which is pretty cool. But some of the solutions they come up with seemed like the story was written with the imagination of a 12-year-old at times.
The main bad guy of the movie, Galactus, is WAY cooler than the version of Galactus you see in Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer made in 2007. The Visual of Galactus is probably the coolest thing about the movie.
The heroes in First Steps use their powers in cool ways throughout the movie and have good team chemistry. Mr. Fantastic's stretch is used more as a power than as a gimmick compared to previous movies. The Thing seems a lot stronger in this movie. The Human Torch is always cool because fire is cool. And The Invisible Woman is badass in First Steps compared to any other version of the character.
The Silver Surfer looks way better in First Steps, and looks cool in movement, but I still enjoyed the Rise Of The Silver Surfer version of the character a little more than this one. They're both super strong characters, and I like that they gave us her backstory with this version of the Silver Surfer, but the Rise of the Silver Surfer version of the character was just more interesting in a mysterious way, in my opinion.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps wasn't what I was expecting going into it, but still not a bad movie. It was a little more dramatic than I thought it would be, and felt like Marvel needed to introduce these characters before they put Avengers: Doomsday out. There are a lot of cool aspects to the movie and things they did better in comparison to previous Fantastic Four movies, but nothing that made the movie amazing. Overall, I'd rate The Fantastic Four: First Steps
7.6/10
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