The true power of The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the love between a mother and her child.

Garner also noted that she’s portraying Shalla-Bal, a female iteration of the Silver Surfer, and not Norrin Radd, the male version of the character who was played Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne in 2007’s “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.”

For decades, the Fantastic Four have struggled to find their footing in live-action, with multiple attempts resulting in films that failed to capture the unique blend of cosmic adventure, family dynamics,

The Silver Surfer is back. But long before “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” the most intriguing hero in comics history was predicting the doomscroll.

After an infamously unreleased low budget Roger Corman treatment in 1994, two coolly received noughties movies, and the total car crash that was Josh Trank’s 2015 reboot, Matt Shakman is about to have another go with The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four finally get a worthy big-screen adaption in a spiffy ’60s-era romp, bathed in retrofuturism and bygone American optimism.

With strong, universal themes around familial bond and protecting the future, this latest Marvel film should resonate most with parents.

Ahead of The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ release, the film featured on Rotten Tomatoes’ score list with 87%. It is the highest in the franchise's history. Rise of the Silver Surfer, released in 2007, stood second with 37%. Fantastic Four (2005 ...