The best thing about First Steps is the aesthetic. It’s far and away my favorite part of this film, and that’s a problem because as much as I do enjoy a solid retrofuturistic aesthetic, it’s not enough to make a mediocre movie worth watching. This is all style over substance.

From that point on, the biggest gripe you may have with this Fantastic Four is that its appealing heroes get pushed aside by its villains. Still, the movie "has enough actor-based charm to distract from its jankiest effects,

First Steps gives a spectacular new story about Marvel's First Family with a bold, breathtaking superhero blockbuster.