The Fantastic Four: First Steps

 So the First Family FINALLY arrives in the MCU, meaning we only are missing the most anticipated team in there... please bring that Doomsday movie forward.

 

Now, this movie didn't do that well at all in the box office, and basically I don't get it, this one was, compared to all previous iterations, actually good.

 

First off, I love the 60s vibe both the technology (The Eclipse, their car,...) gives off, as well as that 60s style theme music.  But what about the casting and the story?  Well, they face Galactus and the Silver Surfer again, like in the older movies with Jessica Alba.  The first thing Noshi noted was that they made the Silver Surfer female, and I had to bring her in the know.  There are more Surfers, some female, but we all are used to Norin Rad, the one we know from most comics.

 

Also a bit of comic knowledge, neutral viewers had on the one hand issues with the "superbaby", and with Reed being significantly older.  Well, Franklin IS the single most powerful mutant in the whole Marvelverse, basically they haven't seen anything yet.  And Reed never was a young scientist actually, being the senior of Susan, who is actually casted on the rather young side in all movies.

 

But that aside, the story is the traditional: Galactus is on course to Earth, and want to destroy it.  The Fantastic Four set out to talk to him, and he notices the unborn baby as his salvation, as it carries the Power Cosmic.  They try to stop him but fail, with Franklin being born in the process.  A plan is hatched to teleport Earth, but is stopped by the Silver Surfer, so using the final space bridge they plan on teleporting Galactus far away.  They nearly succeed, but as he goes after Franklin Sue holds him back, and the Silver Surfer in the end saves Earth to atone for her sins by pushing Galactus in the portal.

 

Now, and then there is the end-scene... a green hooded man holding a metal mask has appeared in the Baxter building, and we all know who that is, as Doctor Victor Von Doom will appear as the main villain in Doomsday.  

 

As will "that team" I talked about in the opening line... and I for one cannot wait this time for an actual Marvel release, and I can say that has been a LONG time.