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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Stars: Ioan Gruffud, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans
Director: Tim Story

First let me say, I'm not a Real Fan of The Fantastic Four, never have been, There's just something about the whole "Famliy" aspect that never appealed to me. That's just something I can't relate to, so needless to say these Guys and Gal aren't my Cup of Coffe. Now onto the movies.

This Review contains Spoliers
The First Film wasn't that good to be honest. It was filled with Bad Acting, Campiness, Dry Humour and not alot of action. Although, I haven't Watched the New Edition DVD that came out, I've heard some good things about it. The Second film suffers from some of the same things the first one did, Bad Acting, Campiness(Not alot but it's still here), Humour was a little better this time around. There was quite abit of Action that wasn't over the top But just enough to get by.

So the Silver Surfer comes to our humble Planet in order to feed the hunger of Galactus and the FF try to stop them. The Silver Surfer is Eye-Candy at it's best, I thought they pulled him off very well, probably the best part of the movie. Seeing him Zip around was really cool, I think Laurence Fishburne did an excellent job as the voice for our Cosmic Sufer as well(Even with the very few lines he has) We really don't learn much about the Surfer, He simply says he was once Norin Rad and he serves Galactus And That's about it. But I can see why they didn't explain much about him as he is suppose to have his own Solo Movie, Hopefully they'll use him exactly as he is in this film (CG/Voice).

Galactus, well what can I say about Galactus? I certainly didn't imagine him as a Cloud, But you can make out a shadow that resembles the Purple Planet Eater as he passes by Jupiter, so maybe there is something there. When I first realized he was indeed a cloud I was expecting for a voice,for some reason the thought of Unicron's voice from the animated Transformers movie popped into my head. That would be a weird fight huh? Galactus vs. Unicron, I imagine an All you can Eat Buffet where there's Two Very Big and Very Hungry people and only one Serving plate. . . well before I get too sidetracked, DOOM! Yes the Evil doctor is in and he actually kicks major ass this time, well atleast more than he did in the first time round. He awakens from his frozen slumber when the Surfer flies over head and wakes him up, I suppose it's better than Foldgers. He get's some Metal Work done to his Armor and it looks alot better than he did before. I think Doom was pulled off pretty well, although I'm pissed at the fact he was defeated by Super Skrull(More on that later). I couldn't help but laugh as I saw him Riding the Surfer's Board, looked cool and Hillarious at the same time.

Now onto the Big Four, they seem pretty much the same, Thing looks better in my eyes but Sue's eyes freak the hell out man! The Acting is still very much a problem from these guys for me. Are these really the best people they could find? Mr. Fantastic his nerdy ass self, the whole speech about how he was a nerd in school and never played football blah blah blah, is really stupid. Johnny Storm is still great and his horseplay with The Thing is fun comedy relief. Through-out the movie he's hitting on this army babe who turns out to be, wait for it, Frankie Raye. However, there's sadly no Nova to be found, if they were gonna use her, this would've been the perfect time. Now for my Biggest Complaint, besides Galactus. Johnny Storm's interaction with the surfer messes with his body and anyone he touches, he absorbs their power. So when it came time to defeat Doom of course the only logical Action was for him to absorb all their powers at once and become Super Human Torch. This was a huge let down, not only because he defeated doom with hardly any effort, but any Chance of them using Super Skrull in the Sequel(s) is going to seem redundant and people are gonna say "Didn't they already do this?" Ok, now the ending and Defeat of Galactus is really anti-Climatic, way more than Spiderman 3, Surfer flies up Galactus' mouth or whatever and summons all his Cosmic Power to explode and take down the G-man. Huge plot hole right? If Galactus gave the Cosmic Power to Norin Rad, wouldn't he be able to withstand it?

With all the Problems I had with this movie, I can take away the Comic Fan in me and still enjoy it as a good Action/Sci-fi Movie. B+