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Julia Garner's Silver Surfer gels a lot better with the Fantastic Four in First Steps than the version who appeared in Rise of the Silver Surfer. Here's why.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps has kicked off Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with an impressive $118 million domestic box office haul from its opening weekend. That’s the fourth biggest domestic opening of 2025, behind A Minecraft Movie ($162 million), Lilo & Stitch ($146 million), and Superman ($125 million).

First Steps wastes no time diving into the team’s beginnings, and it does so with an exciting nod to the comics. The movie opens with a montage of their origin story and their very first showdown with Mole Man.

First Steps, and while Marvel's First Family was beaten by Superman in North America, the team reigned supreme overseas. Read on for

Franklin Richards, the superpowered baby of Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman, is played by a group of real-world babies in Fantastic Four: First Steps. However, in several scenes, the little guy is depicted through CGI.

“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” grossed $118 million at the domestic box office over the weekend—largely meeting earlier projections, but still placing it behind “Superman” for the biggest superhero film opening of 2025 so far.

This iteration of the Fantastic Four has a standalone adventure without all the burden of the MCU's history and cast of characters.

After a number of false starts, the Fantastic Four have another feature adaptation in the retro-pastiche Fantastic Four: First Steps. This isn’t the first time Mr. Fantastic and co. have appeared onscreen; They were last seen in Josh Trank’s Fantastic 4 (stylized as Fant4stic) and Tim Story’s Fantastic Four films for Fox.

But if you’re not into Marvel movies, then I can't see The Fantastic Four changing your mind. It's another movie full of effects that you’ve seen before. And does the world really need another superhero movie to add to the countless other superhero films released in the last decade?