The art and imagination of Jack Kirby are front-and-center in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and it's what the MCU has needed for years

So, here are the five reasons I believe that “Fantastic Four: First Steps” beats “Superman.” “Fantastic Four’s” biggest strength is how it successfully balances its four main players, the eponymous quartet, ensuring that each is given their moment to shine, while also feeling part of a superhero team as well.

So it’s counterintuitive that Trank’s film revisits the origins of Reed Richards (Miles Teller), Sue Storm (Kate Mara), Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan), and Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell), going back even further than the usual Fantastic Four starting point to spend 10 minutes on Reed and Ben’s childhood friendship.

Galactus and the Celestials as cosmic rivals could be explored in a potential sequel to 2021’s Eternals, which introduced the latter to the MCU. Moreover, the ending of The Fantastic Four sees Galactus being teleported to a different part of the universe without his Worldship.

In his first starring role, Paul Walter Hauser played the title role in Richard Jewell, Clint Eastwood’s true story that also starred Kathy Bates.

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First Steps is coming in lighter than projections in its first box office weekend with $117.6 million. Still records were broken.