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In the wake of Fantastic Four: First Steps' release, plenty of Marvel fans have reappraised the original Fantastic Four movies from the mid-2000s. One such figure is The Thing himself, Michael Chiklis.
"There were a lot of people, I think, critically who got it wrong," Chiklis told Collider. "They really maligned our films, and they were very underrated considering… they were very loved by the audience. It was one of those cases where critics weren’t great to those films, but the audience was, and that still remains."
Chiklis added, "I’ve always sort of quietly gone like, 'Okay, say what you want to say, but the people see it.' And now all these years later, people are sort of acknowledging like, hey, these films are family-friendly, fun movies… they got a lot right. They may be imperfect, but they’re really good movies."
Its sequel, Rise of the Silver Surfer, didn't fare much better at 37% – though each garnered over $300 million at the worldwide box office.
