4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)'s comments

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badblokebob

It's better than the first one... though that's really not saying much.

11 years ago

MASD

This movie has the most awkward Stan Lee cameo i've ever seen.

13 years 7 months ago

Dieguito

Terrible of course

12 years 10 months ago

Warrison

Holloywood money machine in action.

13 years 3 months ago

Baxrus

The orginal name is Fantastic 4: Rise of the silver surfer, aint it?

12 years 11 months ago

I'll tell you why Galactus is a big cloud in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. It's for the same reason its Doctor Doom is the most boring ever. This is a movie franchise that, like a lot of pre-MCU superhero fare, is ashamed of its comic book sources. So there's a dull effort to make it work within a kind of "logic" the presumptive audience will understand. That's why there's a media circus, why the Torch is trying to get sponsors, why Doom can't just have built an armor and communed with the devil, etc. At the same time, they don't seem to mind all the bad hair pieces. And for all that, it's a better film that the original. The wedding stuff is slightly impaired by Ioan Gruffudd being a terribly off-model Reed Richards (Jessica Alba is an odd choice for Sue, but at least I like her), but Johnny's coming of age is a good bit (if undermined by the contrived power-switch subplot). There's far less faffing about and the action set pieces are generally good. It won't win any awards - I keep qualifying my compliments, as you can see - but it's reasonable. What I think fans resent about these failed films (and I can say the same about the X-Men's two tried at the Dark Phoenix Saga) is that they hurt those classic stories' chances of making it intact to the big screen. The MCU treatment could definitely do them justice (like, how is the whole bit with the Ultimate Nullifier not more interesting than having the Silver Surfer somehow have the power to kill Galactus all along?!), but by then audiences might say "this again?!".

3 years 1 month ago