{"id":16738,"date":"2025-07-23T00:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16738\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:52:10","slug":"new-mcu-movie-obliterates-past-f4-movies-rotten-tomatoes-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16738\/","title":{"rendered":"New MCU Movie Obliterates Past F4 Movies’ Rotten Tomatoes Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first reviews for The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a> are absolutely fantastic.<\/p>\n

Marvel Studios<\/a>\u2019 The Fantastic Four: First Steps releases in United States theaters this weekend. Directed by Matt Shakman, the MCU<\/a> flick stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm, and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm.<\/p>\n

The review embargo for The Fantastic Four: First Steps has now lifted. At the time of this article\u2019s publication, the Marvel<\/a> movie has an 88 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>. Over at MetaCritic<\/a>, it has a 66 score.<\/p>\n

In comparison, James Gunn\u2019s Superman has an 83 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, while the last MCU movie, Thunderbolts*, has an 88. As for other Fantastic Four<\/a> movies, the 2005 film has a 27 percent score, 2007\u2019s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer\u2019s is 37 percent, and the 2015 Fantastic Four is nine percent.<\/p>\n

What are critics saying about The Fantastic Four: First Steps?<\/p>\n

ComingSoon<\/a>\u2019s Jonathan Sim gave the movie an 8\/10, which equates to \u201cgreat.\u201d Sim said of the movie, \u201cMarvel has a hit on their hands. This is a grand, marvelous movie that feels wholly unique. It\u2019s uncharted territory for the studio, and even if it is another superhero movie with some of the classic humor and action you expect, it feels like a new flavor of MCU that we haven\u2019t tried yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wrap<\/a>\u2019s William Bibbiani wrote, \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps, whatever its drawbacks, feels like a real Fantastic Four movie, and that\u2019s no small achievement. It\u2019ll never be as important or influential as the comics, but it does feel like an idyllic summer afternoon, sitting under a shady tree and thumbing through back issues of a marvelous series with endearing characters. That\u2019s more than enough. In fact, that\u2019s a heck of a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Witney Seibold said for SlashFilm<\/a>, \u201cI appreciate that First Steps is set in a gorgeous, sleek universe of miracle technologies, and the filmmakers, through subtle editing and wide camera angles, allow us, the astonished viewers, to sit and take it all in. It\u2019s nice to actually be impressed by a superhero movie\u2019s visuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not everyone, however, is in love with First Steps. Indiewire<\/a>\u2019s David Ehrlich wrote on X<\/a>, \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps is a story about the terror and beauty of walking into the unknown, but the movie is so afraid of defying Marvel convention that only the terror shines through. starts strong, crawls to the finish.\u201d<\/p>\n

.The Fantastic Four: First Steps arrives in United States theaters and IMAX on July 25, 2025.<\/p>\n

Originally reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first reviews for The Fantastic Four: First Steps are absolutely fantastic. Marvel Studios\u2019 The Fantastic Four: First…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,9070,3078,3080,9071,2015,2627],"class_list":["post-16738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-fantastic-four","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-studios","tag-mcu","tag-movie-news","tag-the-fantastic-four-first-steps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}