Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Like with the previous this film was very awesome it had good acting, special effects and I also like the dialogues. However, the only disappointment with this film was we never got to see Galactus (What he would look like in The Movie.)My favorite part in the movie was where Johnny calls The Thing a rock-slide and Ben says "I'LL SHOW YOU ROCKSLIDE!" and starts to chase him.Overall awesome and as I have said in my review for the previous movie if you are a fan of The Fantastic Four you have come to the right place.

A Fantastic Wedding...that was the plot, right? Sue and Reed are finally getting hitched.Oh, wait, they switch powers, yeah, that happened. A troupe and an expected and welcomed one in Sci-Fi Television shows, one that gives the actors the chance to playfully mock one another and gives the audience some comic relief...but not really something you'd expect in a major high budget movie In a movie like this it feel sort of cheap, lazy, but hey, we get the Silver Surfer...kind of.We get a few glimpses of the Silver Surfer that is. We get to see him fly around on his surf board and really do nothing at all. The Silver Surfer basically just, well, surfs.And then back to the wedding and then...well, there are bad guys and big ones and, well, they sort of get shadowed by, well, nothing.Don't get me wrong, it was OK, more or less. There were entertaining parts. You get to see Alba almost naked again rather than developing her as a character and Johnny and Ben are entertaining.But the Silver Surfer is in the title and, well, that made for the disappointment. We expected him to do something big, not just surf.

Garbage.But seriously, why even bother. I'm not so much angry with Hollywood as I am disappointed with the American movie-going public. Hollywood thinks we're gullible jackasses and they're right.Rise of the Silver Surfer is high in the running as absolute epitome of Hollywood complacency and mediocrity, in close competition with Eragon, Snakes on a Plane, and Meet the Spartans. There's something mystically worse about a film that's so profoundly mediocre as ROTSS as opposed to "so-brain-gratingly-bad-it's-good," as was the case with your Space Mutinies or your Manoses or your Three Men And A Babieses.How anyone can consider this crap entertaining enough to warrant even so much as a rental, hell, to even warrant 100 minutes of their life, is beyond my comprehension. After Kill Bill? After Die Hard? After X-Men? After Sin City? After 300? Are you serious? How much more obvious could it get that the director--hell, everybody involved, even Stan Lee himself--doesn't even care? Aren't you insulted? Do YOU care? I'm to the point that I no longer hate Hollywood for producing garbage of this ilk. I now am much more disappointed with you, the viewing public.Let me tell you something, straight up. If you don't care about finding that special something that, if not transcendent of mere entertainment is at LEAST crafted by people who give a damn, you don't love movies. You're a poser. Period. This unending deluge of Hollywood tripe is your fault, not theirs. Get out of my playground and stay out.So cast your no votes and pat yourself on the back. You'll have forgotten all about this little piece of disposable kitsch before you know it, but somewhere inside yourself, subconsciously, will remain the harsh truth. Get real or get lost.I exclude 0-15 year olds from this tongue lashing. Around 16 or so, you should have enough figured out to know better.

I loathed the first FANTASTIC FOUR movie with a passion, so when I saw that this sequel was on TV I wasn't really considering watching it. In the event, nothing else was on, so I decided to give it a try. It was everything I expected, and nothing more.The best thing you can say about this film is that it's slightly better than the first. I find 'origin' stories long-winded and often boring, but that's not the case here. The film straight away gets on with the (slim) plot, so there's not a lot of time for boredom. However, there is a lot of silliness, mostly involving some excruciating CGI effects used to animate Ioan Gruffudd's stretchy arms and legs.Amid this kid's stuff, there's a very, very thin plot about the titular character, who flies around the world, causing disaster and making craters in the ground. After a couple of lacklustre set-pieces at the London Eye and Black Forest, there's an unsurprising twist, a briefly seen and rather ludicrous super-baddie (the size of a planet) and the unwelcome return of ultra-stiff actor Julian McMahon as the ludicrously named villain, Victor Von Doom.Gruffudd has the decency to look mildly embarrassed at all this, and Jessica Alba's acting is absolutely diabolical. Chris Evans is, once again, irritating, and only Michael Chiklis seems to be having fun as the guy made out of rock. The silver surfer is well animated (you can see that's where the money went), voiced by Laurence Fishburne and occasionally acted by the skinny guy in a suit Doug Jones (HELLBOY), but otherwise there's little of interest here for adults in what is definitely a kid's film.