With the summer movie season kicking off next month, everybody is on thin, melting ice. Over the next several months, the Disney-owned Marvel Studios will continue its sad quest to pretend we’re still in 2019 by releasing two more MCU flicks: “Thunderbolts” (May 2) and “The Fantastic Four — First Steps” (July 25). For those keeping score at home, that’s No. 36 and 37. Franchise fatigue? More like franchise fatality. Their last attempt, February’s “Captain America: Brave New World,” was a critical and box office disaster — and the Captain is one of their most popular tentpoles. Who the heck are the Thunderbolts? A Google search reveals they are B-team antiheroes, including Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova. Uh oh. Sounds like “Eternals.” “Fantastic Four,” meanwhile, has the distinct advantage of people actually knowing what it is. But name recognition won’t be enough to ensure success. The last two movies featuring these characters, produced by 20th Century Fox, were major failures. Sweaty season will show whether Marvel has enough gas in the tank for more hits than just Spider-Man. And whether or not audiences still want to watch Tom Cruise sweat for 2 1/2 hours. Paramount enters the fray just before Memorial Day with “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.” Slam dunk, you’d think. Cruise is box office gold, you say. Well, this movie, the eighth in the 31-year-old series, is said to have cost $400 million to make, and millions more to market. Cruise isn’t always “Top Gun.” The last “M:I” entry, “Dead Reckoning,” only grossed $571 million despite good reviews. Turning that around could be Ethan Hunt’s most impossible mission yet. The biggest test of them all, unfortunately for its embattled co-chairs, falls on Warner Bros. On July 11 comes “Superman” from newish DC Studios co-head James Gunn, who’s been tasked with revitalizing the stagnant DC Studios. DC’s got it even worse than Marvel. Under old management, they became an assembly line for cataclysmic disasters. After “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” and “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” fans are tip-toeing to the theater in terror. Five minutes of “Superman,” which sees the little-known David Corenswet replace Henry Cavill, dropped on YouTube. Some responses were euphoric, others not so much. Superman “doesn’t whine like a little b—h,” one eloquent commenter said. Nope. But Warner Bros. will be if their movie isn’t a hit. Very soon we’ll know whether Clark Kent will rescue the studio from its rut, or if he’ll be their Kryptonite. 📸: skynesher via Getty Images; ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection; ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection; jamesgunn - @nypost