‘Fantastic Four’ Just Hit A Very Funny Rotten Tomatoes Milestone
NO LOC, JUL 23 – Fantastic Four: First Steps earned an 86% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, marking the franchise’s best critical reception to date and surpassing all previous films.
- An 86% Rotten Tomatoes score from 130 reviews makes The Fantastic Four: First Steps the first Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four film to earn Certified Fresh status.
- Critics praised The Fantastic Four: First Steps for its charm and visuals, calling it `bright, bombastic, brimming with imagination`.
- The previous franchise high was a 37% rating for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, while 2015's Fantastic Four scored just 9%.
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps quickly became one of Marvel Studios’ best-reviewed movies, breaking the franchise’s Rotten streak, and its Certified Fresh status marks a major MCU and genre victory.
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps: The Kotaku Review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is obsessed with time. From the opening moments, which drops the audience in media res, brilliant scientist Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) is scouring the cabinets of his 1960s-retro-future-inspired bathroom for iodine. The man known as Mister Fantastic calls out to his wife, Sue Storm…Read more...


'Fantastic Four: First Steps' review: A bit boring, in a refreshing way
The latest entry in the Marvel universe works on its own terms.
REVIEW: Finally, the Fantastic Four get the movie they (and we) deserve
Flame on! Buoyant, bracing and, most shocking of all, brief, "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" represents a quantum leap of ship-righting. Everything about this amiable adventure - its space-age idiom, its sub-two-hour footprint, its emphasis on a literal nuclear family of heroes - has been cannily calibrated to dispel the air of listlessness that's engulfed the Marvel Cinematic Universe in recent years.
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