Subscriber only. 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.
