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Movie · Superhero, Action, Sci-fi · 2025 · PG-13

The Fantastic Four: First Steps: parents' guide

11+our pick

Best for ages 11 and up. Rated PG-13 for action/violence and some language.

A bright, retro-styled Marvel adventure centered on family, a good pick for tweens. The heroes face Galactus, a giant who devours planets, and his silver herald, who chases them through space and wants Reed and Sue's newborn son. The action is big and destructive but nearly bloodless, though a whole planet's people are wiped out and two characters die on screen, one of them later revived. Expect one s-word, a birth aboard a spaceship with nothing graphic shown, and a few kisses between the married leads. The danger to the baby is the scariest part.

What's in it

Violence

Moderate

Comic-book action with super strength, fire, force fields and stretching, plus New York smashed by tidal waves and a world devoured offscreen as its people plead. Two characters die on screen, one later revived. Almost no blood. Sue urges the others to kill the herald.

Language

Moderate

A single s-word ("bulls--t"), a few uses of "hell," and "God" and "Jesus" as exclamations. Otherwise clean.

Sex and nudity

Mild

The married couple kisses and embraces. Sue jokes about how she got pregnant, and Johnny calls the silver herald a sexy naked alien. In the birth scene Sue kicks off her suit's pants, but only her bent legs are shown.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

Mild

Adults drink what looks like beer at a family dinner. No drunkenness, smoking or drug use.

Scary or intense scenes

Moderate

Galactus is enormous and menacing, and an unborn and then newborn baby is repeatedly in danger, once when the herald reaches into the pregnant mother's belly. Riots, evacuations and a main character's on-screen death add tension, though she is revived.

Worth talking about

Reed and Sue refuse to trade their son for the safety of the planet. Was that the right call, and how should anyone weigh one life against many?

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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Plugged In, the MPA, moviemom.com. The age is our judgment, not an official rating, and every family draws its lines differently: read the notes, not just the number. Spotted something we missed? Tell us. How we rate.