The Fantastic Four, Marvel’s first family of superheroes, is an important piece of the company’s legacy. They are also the template that many heroic teams were built on in the industry, but no one could tell that from how they’ve been shown on film so far. The two movies released in the mid-2000s bore the name of the group their stories came from, but weren’t part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe; rather, they were 20th Century Fox’s version of the family-friendly foursome. “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” was a sequel that attempted to up the stakes and bring in some of the biggest heavy-hitting elements from the comics, but it didn’t quite meet expectations, due to the film juggling multiple characters and lackluster subplots, all squeezed into an hour and a half.
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Stephen Wilds 