There are spoilers Next for "Fantastic Four: First Steps".

The fantastic four is among the most important characters with comics of all time, the basic pillars of what would become Marvel Comics and some of the most powerful and most popular characters in the Marvel Universe. However, they had very bad luck when it comes to movie adaptations, with three attempts (Plus the fourth that has never been released) that have failed to really make or to capture what makes the original characters fun - even if the 2005 film is not that bad!

Now, Marvel Studios hopes the fourth time is charm, and it seems to work. "Fantastic Four: First Steps" is very different from the last three films, and also differs from any recent Marvel movie. Although choosing a style over the substance, the style is so different and unique that it makes this fascinating film about superhero. Retro-Futuristic aesthetic and stunning (award-winning) production design creates a world unlike all we have seen in the last 20 years. Plus, the focus of fun, hope and family makes a movie that, like /movie Whitney Seibord described in his review"It balances the necessary, Wimpy Cornesty with stunning spatial adventures, appears as one of the better superhero films of the year."

However, as much as there are very good ideas as there are "the first steps", it is not yet the best movie "Fantastic Four" we have ever seen. This is because the most perfect performance of the fantastic four has already happened in a film more than 20 years ago, and Marvel did not do that.

That's the case: the best movie "Fantastic Four" is still the "incredible" of Pixar.

21 years have passed since the "incredible", but remains one of the best American animated films in the 21st century. A big cube for Pixar At that time, it was the company's first film as a whole for the people and its first film originating from an animator that didn't start in the studio. "Incredible" are not just, well, an incredibly good animated film, but also an incredibly good superhero movie. He ozes the style without losing his substance, paying tribute to the golden age of comic books with exceptional late in the 1960s, aesthetic wound 70s. Pays a lot of time, and Saved in box office by becoming the biggest original movie for superhero.

When the "incredible" came out for the first time, many critics and audiences pointed out how similar it was to a fantastic story of four, and the comparison reappeared "the first steps". Outside the fact that both films first refer to one family and superheroes in second place, the fact is that they have very similar forces. Mr. Fantastic is basically a male elastigir, something is only Mr. Incredible, but made of rock, Sue Storm's forces are similar to purple, and (this will be important for a little) Reid and Sue's son, Franklin, is the baby Jackec-shack.

Both films look retro-footsteps, set in alternative versions of the 1960s full of miracle and cool technology. And they both open to Medias Res with mounting showing the history of their respective universes, showing the feats of heroes through news footage. This helps to establish movies in the world and makes them feel full of history and details. Both films also have interrogations at the site of superheroes in society, with the "incredible" set after the government decided not to pay for the damage to the heroes caused and forced them to hide, while the "first steps" were placed in a world clearly done with the work of a fantastic four. (They both have a mole's villain.)

But perhaps the biggest similarity is like both films have an almighty creature that becomes a key part of the culmination of the story: baby.

A significant part of the story of "Fantastic Four: First Steps" has to do with Reed (Pedro Pascal) and Sue (Vanessa Kirby) son, Franklin. Even before the child is born, he is targeted by galaxy (Ralph Ineson), swallowing the worlds. Galacutus believes that the child has huge cosmic forces, perhaps as big as his or her, and is ready to allow the earth to survive if the fantastic four have delivered the child to him to become his successor. By the end of the film, when Sue sacrifices to push Galacus into a portal that sends it away, she is literally returned to life through Franklin's forces.

In comics, Franklin Richards is considered one of the most powerful creatures in the universe (and in a continuity, he becomes galacutus), even capable of creating whole new universes. He is the equivalent of Marvel of Akira from Akira.

Although not so powerful, the baby Jackec-Shack from "The Incretibles" serves a similar narrative function in the culmination of the film when we discover that only the normal member of the family pair is actually the most powerful. After beating Omnroid, the syndrome tries to kidnap Jackec-Jackec to raise him as his coach, but he is killed after the baby develops any power you can think about and kick the syndrome syndrome. "Incredible II" duplicates this by giving the baby even more authorityMaking a cute but very dangerous child.

Even after 20 years, the "incredible" remains an ellevel piece of superhero cinema and the best film "Fantastic Four" that does not contain the human torch (although the Jackec-Shkek has the power of Nyoni).