"First Steps" promises to push the MCU out of its comfort zone, but the movie quickly retreats into a tired version of the same old story.

Nowadays, the Emmy winner is in $200-million Marvel movies. His first film credit, though, came in 2006 when he played a teenage "Paperboy Zombie" for a $22,000-budget horror flick.

Four Fantastic Four movies were produced before Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and the MCU reboot has finally broken what was a pretty unfortunate streak for the team's

The Marvel film stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Julia Garner and hits theaters July 25.

But it was a little odd to hear that Marvel also planned to make the Fantastic Four a major part of the MCU’s future. Even though the Fantastic Four have always been prominent in Marvel’s comics, the characters — created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee — had never translated well to the big screen.

Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn star in Marvel's latest, out July 25.

First Steps is ready to land in cinemas, bringing a new group of heroes into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it's already being heralded as a return to form for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Starring Pedro Pascal,

It’s box office clobberin’ time — or so Marvel hopes.

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Despite strong performances by Pedro Pascal and others – and for all its "breezy competence and flair" – this retro vision of the future from Marvel doesn't have enough suspense.