"The Fantastic Four: First Steps" (2025) Review

 



Final Score: 9.3/10

First, let me give a run down of how I have felt towards the MCU for the past decade. From Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) to Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Marvel produced amazing, high-quality films that soared my imagination and thoroughly entertained me as well as numerous other superhero film fans. 

2021, you could argue was when the quality started to concave down. Black Widow (2021) I thought was ok, I loved Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021); I liked Eternals (2021) despite the bad reviews. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) were bitter disappointments as well as the Phase 4 Disney Plus MCU shows (with What If...? (2021), Moon Knight (2022) and Ms. Marvel (2022) being the exceptions). 

Because of the bad reviews, I did not even watch Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), The Marvels (2023) and Captain America: Brave New World (2025) and I have not even watched any of the Phase 5 Disney Plus MCU shows (except Daredevil: Born Again (2025)). 

I thought Thunderbolts* (2025) was very enjoyable and now here we are. I thought this film was really good and I thought it was a great way to assure me that the MCU is back on track and could once again produce high quality content. The characters were great and I thought each actor did a good job. I felt really connected to them and how they interacted with the public felt very warm and jovial. The comic relief was also what the MCU normally delivers. 

Each character added a lot of depth and layer to the film and the plot was also very good. I saw Fantastic Four (2005) and (2015) years ago and both those films definitely deserved the critical backlash that they got and this film definitely rectifies them. 

As for downsides, towards the beginning/middle of the film, a group of people make a really stupid decision that would not make any sense to do in real life, but they choose to do it anyway. Granted, that stupid decision ultimately creates a lot of drama and progresses the plot, but it still was just an illogical decision.   

Overall, it made me believe that the MCU is back on track and I even went to the Wikipedia page to see what the future projects were going to be, something I had not done in a very long time - 9.3/10.
















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