First Steps" hit theaters, Galactus' Silver Surfer was a viral hit. Julia Garner spills her inspirations as Shalla-Bal.

As the filmmaker’s three-year journey wound down on the project, he realized a key moment was missing, and managed to shoot it within a few months of the film's opening.

The summer was always going to belong to two movies: Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps. As expected, the latest MCU movie is delivering strong results at the box office, and is matching (and occasionally surpassing) James Gunn’s DCU movie at every turn.

The battle against the Devourer of Worlds pushes the Fantastic Four to their limits, which allows them to show off just how powerful they are compared to the villains they’re up against. Here are all the major characters in First Steps ranked by how powerful they are,

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is gearing up for a cosmic showdown with The Fantastic Four: First Steps, introducing the mighty Galactus and a surprising twist—a female Silver Surfer, revealed as Shalla-Bal,

First Steps features incredibly visually stimulating and nostalgia-inducing retrofuturistic aesthetics, but falls flat plot-wise as it follows a generic superhero movie formula

In addition to setting up Galactus and the Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four: First Steps finds time to tease another major villain.

Is the new “Fantastic Four” movie fantastic? No, and not everyone will love the amount of downtime in this one. But good is good enough for a Marvel superhero movie these days.