Open Channel: What’d You Think ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’?

Nearly five full years after Marvel Studios first planted its flag and announced it was coming, the Fantastic Four finally made their MCU debut this weekend. Given the last tries at bringing these heroes to the big screen, and how Marvel treated those characters back when it didn’t own them, it seemed there wasn’t really anywhere for the Four to go but up. But things have changed in the past five years, and now there’s more pressure than ever for them to stick the landing, particularly since this is our first Phase Six movie and a key building block of the soon-to-end Multiverse Saga.

Early reactions to the film were pretty glowing, with plenty of praise heaped onto the cast, director Matt Shakman, and the film’s retrofuturist look. That praise has cooled off just a little in more official reviews, but the general vibe is still fairly high for the movie, which is just as well since we’re going to be getting more of these characters in Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars, and the larger MCU down the line.

As with previous major superhero movies, we want to know what you, the audience, thought of First Steps now that you’ve seen it. Was it the Fantastic Four movie of your dreams, was Galactus better here than as a cloud, how good was Sue—share your opinions down in the comments below.

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