Review – Fantastic Four: First Steps

The source material for Fantastic Four movies could have been written by Stephen King, based on how many terrible movies have been made out of it. This time around the story is a run-of-the-mill retelling of the Galactus plot line with minor twists (a female Silver Surfer, the Thing as a muttering goof rather than a rocky orange rage monster). The real killer here is the art direction. The somewhere-else-in-the-multiverse aesthetic reeks of the Tomorrowland sections of Disney theme parks, somehow equally rooted in a past that never was and a future that never will be. The 1940s, 1960s and 2020s blend awkwardly at best, which doesn’t make the off-putting characters any more approachable. Pity, too. They spent a lot on the cast and the effects. See if desperate