First Steps is one of the best Marvel films for ages (until this is not the case)

It’s Spoiner time! This article discusses Details of the major plot From “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”.

From the first Marvel Comics family to the Savior of the whole of the Marvel cinematic universe, the trajectory of the Fantastic Four could just as well have been written in the stars. For many, including Witney Seibold of / film in his review of “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”, that’s exactly what director Matt Shakman delivered at a time when the franchise needed it most. The moviegoers disappointed by a series of high -level swings and failures (“Thunderbolts *” innocent) could not have asked for much more than a set of perfectly flowed stars, a retro tone infused with style and hope, and a pleasant adventure with the crowd has torn pages of the source material. The story ready for the use of this “fantastic” blockbuster giving the MCU a shot well necessary in the arm and a new lease on life is almost too obvious to reject.

So why do some of us get away from it very differently?

For two -thirds of its operation, “The Fantastic Four” wins each praise as the most refreshing, the consequences of returning to the base and the most entertaining the wonder in a certain time … until it changes suddenly with one of the most confusing ends of all the films in the series. In a way, it would have been easier to accept and move from an effort that was above all a waste from start to finish – looking at you “Captain America: Brave New World”. But the idea that this restart comes Oh so close Perfection only feels all the more blatant. For skeptics and jaded fans among us, it is roughly the autonomous, visually distinctive and simple history that we ask for from “Avengers: Endgame”. Instead, we end up with the bitter aftertaste of a well-intentioned and above all large film for the last section, just when we needed it to hover.

Unlike so many of these episodes that launch things by hitting, grabbing the public by the throat with an insane and busy action before, the last start of Marvel begins on a calm note: Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby) breaking the news of her husband Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) that she is finally pregnant after two years of success. In fact, for a large part of the opening law, the “first steps” are almost completely carefree to establish a kind of overall threat or establish links with the rest of the MCU. Instead, we fell head of the first in this world where our heroic quartet is mainly concerned about Baxter, aspiring to a return to spatial exploration, and by being differently with him with an adorable general public.

All these first details of the table table establish a solid base so that the rest of the film really feels as if it is about Something significant. Not quite different from the “Superman” of DC and his obvious immigration allegory, the Fantastic Four “soon transform into a parable on the role that superheroes are supposed to have in society and what is its responsibility for daily citizens – a kind of global” family “, in a way, in which each individual can contribute to the greater good. It is only roughly at the 40 -minute brand that we finally get a dose of action, when the extraterrestrial silver surfer (Julia Garner) announces the imminent arrival of the Galactus deviating from the planet (Ralph Ineson).

However, even here, the issues remain much more personal than if the team can strike a cosmic god in the submission. Galactus accepts in a shocking way to save their world of annihilation … If only they put the infant’s son of Sue and Reed, Franklin (Ada Scott), who apparently has divine powers to take the place of galactus at the top of the cosmic food chain. When the superhero’s team refusals to bow before their requests becomes public and they seem damn earth to a macabre spell, the film continues to fly. The breathtaking pregnancy sequence leads to the passionate speech of Sue before angry demonstrators, where she convinces a desperate and frightened world to work together rather than turn around on each other. Emotionally, aesthetically and structurally, the “first steps” are always more daring and more daring than the vast majority of its predecessors.

Until the final act occurs, take off this solid start in very tractic territory which is more like the same.

Well, we will always have the first acts of “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”, at least? During most of the execution, the writers credited Josh Friedman, Eric Pearson, Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer manage to keep these roller coaster firmly on the slopes while we are caught towards the inevitable conclusion. The fateful moment when all this good will evaporates, however, arrives shortly after Reed suddenly reveals his idea of teleporting the planet far from the voracious appetite of Galactus. When the silver surfer interferes and ruined their last chance of salvation, things are soon starting to collapse even more dramatically than those of destroyed teleports bridges.

Everything is well when everyone agrees to move forward with Reed’s backup plan to use Franklin as a bait to teleport Galactus outside, despite fairly obvious holes. (The greatest genius on the earth could not anticipate the galactus the size of Kaiju identifying the very obvious line that he must cross in order to teleport or notice that baby Franklin exchanged with an empty cradle?) Even that, however, pale compared to the collection of shocking undefanted pixes which even transform the god of the stormy space into skyscers of non -convincing pixes. Unfortunately, it is also when the film finally unleashes the extensible powers of Reed with full effect … and, in the process, proves the wisdom to keep these visuals at least to this point. Although trembling VFX is not a total device, this does not help that these idiosyncratic heroes are lost in the shuffle of another typical Marvel final act – which fails to deliver an impressive spectacle, an action based on the character or even a coherent drama.

As the sacrifice game of Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn) is dismissed in favor of the redemptive scene of the Silver Surfer and Sue undergoes a false death which hardly feels very emotional, it is sure to say that several errors have been made and aggravated on each other. What makes it worse is that the rest of the film, so carefully established as a counterpoint to a terribly expired cultivated franchise, is ultimately with a collective retreat in safer waters. The first impressions come only once; With “Avengers: Doomsday” on the horizon, it is just to wonder if Marvel’s first family has missed their shot.

“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” now plays in theaters.