FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS
Although I am as exhausted with superhero films as the next person I've always had a bit of a soft spot for these particular characters (not sure why, I was not into the Fantastic Four comics) so I paid my money and took my chances with it. Like the recent 'Superman' we skip over the origin story - here at the outset we get a very brief recap in a short montage sequence - they go into space, radiation changes their bodies, they come home. Fine by me, let's get to the action! That action takes place on Earth-828 (not ours) so that the backdrop to the story is the kind of retro futuristic world which people in the early part of the twentieth century thought the future would look like. It's a set design I liked a lot. Maybe it was my imagination but even the CGI special effects had a nice retro feel to them - I especially liked the look of the Human Torch and the Silver Surfer. The casting of the Four is fine: in particular Pedro Pascal and V...