The Fantastic Four: First Steps
NZ release: 25 July 2025
Violence & coarse language Rated on: 25 July 2025
What’s it about?
Whilst navigating their roles as superheroes and their newfound family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.
The facts
- Directed by Matt Shakman
- Starring Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us), Vanessa Kirby (Mission: Impossible – Fallout), Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things), and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear)
- Runtime: 115 minutes
- English language
Why did it get this rating?
This film was cross-rated by the Film and Video Labelling Body. You can find out more about cross-rating here.
Violence
The film contains violence at the level to be expected from teenager superhero action films. There is frequent peril, suspense, and destruction, with one scene depicting a mass evacuation of a city’s residents into underground shelters. There is not much onscreen death, but one character does die during an intense fight scene.
A massive alien entity consumes entire planets to satisfy his hunger. In one scene, he destroys an entire planet and all its inhabitants.
During the various fantasy-style fight sequences, opponents punch each other and fire blasts of energy and fire at each other.
A villain chases a woman seeking her unborn child as she goes into labour.
Coarse language
There is one use of the word “bullsh*” and three uses of the word “sh*t.”
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