Marvel Studios has easily surpassed any Fox-eraFantastic Fourmovie withThe Fantastic Four: First Steps' Rotten Tomatoes score. Thestory ofThe Fantastic Four: First Stepsis highly important to the MCU. As a tease of vitalupcoming Marvel movieslikeAvengers: Doomsday,the movie was important to get right, which the critical scores prove Marvel Studios has achieved.
As perRotten Tomatoes' search tool forFantastic Fourmovies, Marvel Studios has surpassed any previous iterations of the First Family. The other three mainstream installments came under 20th Century Fox’s ownership, which, of course, is now owned by Disney; 2005’sFantastic Fourand its sequel, 2007’sFantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and, finally, 2015’sFantastic Four.
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Evidently, Marvel Studios' installment,The Fantastic Four: First Steps, is the first truly successful version of the Marvel Comics characters. The MCU’s iteration has annihilated all others, fairly significantly, where critical scores are concerned, and audience scores are all but guaranteed to be the same.
What Fantastic Four: First Steps' Rotten Tomatoes Score Means
Marvel Has Succeeded Where Others Have Failed
The most obvious meaning ofFantastic Four: First Steps’Rotten Tomatoes score is that Marvel Studios has finally gotten the titular team right. Of course, the studio had no say in earlier iterations, as the rights were owned by 20th Century Fox. The original two movies in the 2000s have seen some revisionism of late, but many still agree they are mediocre, at best.
2015’sFantastic Four, however, is one of the mostunwatchable superhero moviesand emulates a lot of the worst aspects of the genre.The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Rotten Tomatoes score means that Marvel Studios has sidestepped these issues.
The assured direction of Matt Shakman, the brilliant performances of its four leads, the retro-futuristic look of the film, and Marvel Studios' commitment to adapting its source material faithfully meanThe Fantastic Four: First Stepshas succeeded where others have failed in the past.
Our Take On Fantastic Four: First Steps' Rotten Tomatoes Score
Personally, I am ecstatic aboutThe Fantastic Four: First Steps’Rotten Tomatoes score. I enjoyed the original two movies growing up, but even then, I knew the potential of the Fantastic Four on screen was much bigger.Fantastic Fourin 2015 did not do anything to make me believe I would see that potential realized anytime soon, yetThe Fantastic Four: First Stepshas.
The Rotten Tomatoes score for the film just proves that Marvel’s First Family is in the right hands going forward. Time will tell if audiences feel the same but, for now, the critic scores prove thatThe Fantastic Four: First Stepshas, like Galactus, dwarfed prior iterations of the team.
