'Fantastic Four: First Steps' Is Just OK and That's OK

This is a fun spin on the genre in that they’re one of the few hero groups without secret identities — the whole world saw them come back and knows their story intimately, and the juxtaposition of superhero as celebrity, without any masks or alter egos, is a fun way to have a story develop. It’s clever, it has a good heart to it, and the cast is terrific (especially and unsurprisingly Pascal as the stoic genius Reed, but all of them shine). There are absolutely faults, and the script is … OK. That’s the hardest thing to come to grips with when it comes to The Fantastic Four: First Steps: it’s just OK. It’s a solid B, a good-but-not-great grilled cheese sandwich.

Author: TK Burton

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