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A Mother’s Love Drives the Best Marvel Movie in Years
EARTH-828 (ALTERNATE 1960S NEW YORK CITY), JUL 25 – Marvel Studios reboot delivers a retro-futuristic 1960s story with strong reviews praising its fresh approach after prior franchise setbacks, marking a hopeful new chapter for the Fantastic Four.
- Marvel Studios released The Fantastic Four: First Steps on Friday, July 25th, officially joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe and launching Phase Six.
- Set in a vibrant 1960s-inspired Earth-828, the film takes place four years after a cosmic ray accident and forces the Fantastic Four to defend Earth from Galactus.
- The ensemble cast includes Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, while Julia Garner’s Shalla-Bal heralds Galactus’s arrival and Sue’s pregnancy raises the emotional stakes.
- Early reviews noted, JoBlo’s Chris Bumbray gave it an 8/10, declaring it the MCU’s most faithful and self-assured comic book movie yet.
- With no unresolved plot threads to track, First Steps offers a fresh start in Phase Six, set in the uncluttered Earth-828 aesthetic.
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A mother’s love drives the best Marvel movie in years
“I will not sacrifice my child for this world,” declares an impassioned Sue Storm, both superhero and new mother (in the superhero industry, maternity leave is evidently scant), in one of the emotional high points of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Marvel’s much-anticipated franchise revival. After a lackluster Phase Five — marred by formulaic, forgettable fare like Brave New World and Thunderbolts — the MCU’s sixth chapter opens with one of th…
This week's heroic and hellish fast: The Fantastic Four celebrate their comeback on the screen, with new faces, new powers and a lot of Marvel magic. And those who prefer to smell gasoline instead of superpowers get pure adrenaline at the Grand Prix of Europe.
A renewed adaptation of a classic story came to the cinemas. The Fantastic 4: First Steps (The Fantastic Four: First Steps), directed by Matt Shakman (WandaVision), premiered on July 24 as Marvel’s big bet for the season. The cast was headed by Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn. Prior to this release, other versions brought the fantastic family to the screen. The first adaptation was filmed in 1994, although it was…
Another important stage in the recently launched distribution of the apparently successful Marvel comic book film "Fantastic Four: First Steps". The CinemaScore service, which polls viewers immediately after the screening, published their rating - "5-". All previous attempts to film the story of the superhero family were less popular with viewers: "Fantastic Four"
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