You don't have to do any homework before seeing The Fantastic Four: First Steps, according to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. The bad: It's the last Marvel flick we're getting until 2026. More good: It has a super Rotten Tomatoes score.

Marvel Studios has struck again, this time with ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’, a film that not only reintroduces the beloved superhero team into the Marvel Cinematic Universe but also lays the groundwork for the Multiverse Saga’s most dangerous villain yet.

That might sound like no big deal, but after 2023’s “The Marvels,” this spring’s fourth “Captain America” movie and “Thunderbolts*” all underperformed by Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) standards, the new “Fantastic Four” may offer broader audience appeal by not pulling from other franchises.

Though the Fantastic Four go to the very origins of Marvel Comics, their movie forays have been marked by missteps and disappointments.

First Steps gives a spectacular new story about Marvel's First Family with a bold, breathtaking superhero blockbuster.

The Fantastic Four, a tight-knit family with strange powers, were created by comic industry veterans Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1961. The comic, with its bickering heroes and setting in New York City,