The Fantastic Four: First Steps has opened to mostly positive early reactions from fans. In a three-star review, The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey said that while the set designs are a “space-age dream”, the film jerks around far more than it needs to with dialogue disintegrating too much into “unfunny banter”.

In Marvel Comics, Franklin Richards is an immensely powerful mutant who can alter reality itself. This comes from the cosmic ray-mutated genes he inherited from his parents. "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" depicts Franklin in the same way; his powerful potential is the driving force of the movie.

First Steps below. The plot of The Fantastic Four: First Steps revolves around Marvel’s First Family’s dire encounter with Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds (Ralph Ineson). Doomed to feel an everlasting hunger that can only be appeased by the total consumption of worlds brimming with life,