Considering this is the fourth big-screen adaptation of Marvel’s Fantastic Four comics to date – or fifth, if you count the unreleased 1994 Roger Corman version – First Steps turns out to be a surprisingly fitting subtitle.

Fourth time’s the charm. First there was the low-budget version of “The Fantastic Four,” produced by Roger Corman, which Marvel managed to bury before it hit theaters (though bootlegs abound). The comic book company was far more enthusiastic about a pair of early-2000s adaptations at Fox,

More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four finally get a worthy big-screen adaption in a spiffy ’60s-era romp, bathed in retrofuturism and bygone American optimism.