The Fantastic 4: First Steps2025

62/100 Making a Fantastic Four movie must be hard. You've got four main characters, and you've got to make the audience like all of them, make them feel equally important and also have a bunch of big CGI fight, and this movie does it...alright, I guess. The heart of this movie is really Reed and Sue's relationship, and its done great. Johnny's subplot with the Silver Surfer is also decent, though bought down by some awful CGI. Ben Grimm is also cool, I guess, but the movie doesn't really know what to do with him, and he's kinda sidelined. Shame. Galactus is also in this movie, but he's basically just a big CGI monster for the heroes to fight. I guess I should just be glad we've gotten to the point he's not a cloud. Luckily, this movie knows not to focus on Galactus himself and instead on the effect his arrival has on people and especially the Fantastic Four, which I found immersing. This movie's at its worst when its focusing on the superhero stuff itself, but when it focuses on Marvel's First Family, it gets a lot right. It's not great, or even good, but it does serve as a decent introduction and its characters are great, which is what really matters when you're watching a Fantastic Four movie. It's okay, really.