{"id":35879,"date":"2025-07-28T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/?p=35879"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:57:01","slug":"will-this-save-the-mcu-the-fantastic-four-first-steps-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/?p=35879","title":{"rendered":"Will this save the MCU? &#8211; The Fantastic Four: First Steps review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fourth times a charm for Marvel&#8217;s premiere superhero family The Fantastic Four.  This time within the MCU&#8217;s earth 828 where Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Mr Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm and The Thing.  And like in 2007 Galactus and The Silver Surfer are back but this time not as a big cloud and a man but a big man and woman.  Marvel is hoping to reinvigorate the MCU with a lead in to Avengers: Doomsday and Robert Downey Jr&#8217;s return.  But does it succeed?  Check out our review courtesy of The Weekly Planet or make up your own mind.  Those are your only two options. Thanks for watching!<\/p>\n<p>This spoiler review comes from our podcast The Weekly Planet that comes out every Monday on it&#8217;s own YouTube Channel plus Spotify, Apple and whereever else you mind find podcasts.  Thanks for watching<\/p>\n<p>Check out BigSandwich.co for early videos and bonus podcasts<\/p>\n<p>James&#8217; Twitter \u25ba http:\/\/twitter.com\/mrsundaymovies<br \/>\nMaso&#8217;s Twitter \u25ba http:\/\/twitter.com\/wikipediabrown<\/p>\n<p>Edited by Fidel Reyes \u25ba https:\/\/twitter.com\/fidelreyes_<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE HERE \u25ba\u25ba http:\/\/bit.ly\/1IQB3kh<\/p>\n<p>TWP iTunes \u25ba https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/the-weekly-planet\/id718158767<\/p>\n<p>TWP Direct Download \u25ba https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/theweeklyplanet<\/p>\n<p>TWP YouTube Channel \u25ba https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ZQFGH<\/p>\n<p>Patreon \u25ba https:\/\/patreon.com\/mrsundaymovies<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Affiliate Link \u25ba https:\/\/amzn.to\/2nc12P4<\/p>\n<p>T-Shirts\/Merch \u25ba https:\/\/www.teepublic.com\/stores\/mr-sunday-movies<\/p>\n<p>#FantasticFour #FirstSteps #Marvel #MCU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fourth times a charm for Marvel&#8217;s premiere superhero family The Fantastic Four. This time&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":35880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[28,2,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35879"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}