Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

All Critics (166) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (108) | DVD (27)

An off-brand superhero movie, the cinematic equivalent of one of those generic breakfast cereals with a badly drawn squirrel for a mascot.

September 22, 2007 Full Review

Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

The performances are plywooden, the cornball visual gags are groanworthy, and Tim Story still can't direct his way out a sack with a map.

June 23, 2007 Full Review

David Fear

Time Out New York

Top Critic

It's funnier and splashier than the original, but I still can't quite recommend it.

June 18, 2007

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

The first movie's genesis story was more fun than the perfunctory doomsday scheme trotted out here.

June 18, 2007 Full Review

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

If you swept the cosmic dust of the superhero boom into a flimsy dustpan, you'd have the Fantastic Four franchise.

June 18, 2007 Full Review

Scott Brown

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is more ambitious than its predecessor. It's also more cluttered and less fleet: The light, pleasingly casual quality of the first picture has evolved into something forced and metallic.

June 15, 2007 Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

Rise is indeed better than 2005's original version, but, then again, wouldn't that be akin to Paris Hilton proclaiming she wants to have a better year next year?

August 24, 2010 Full Review

Frank Wilkins

Frank's Reel Reviews

Boring is the deal.

July 6, 2010 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

A little tastier but still far from a gourmet feast.

July 6, 2010 Full Review

Scott Huver

Hollywood.com

Despite some gratuitous allusions to Gitmo, the third-rate effects and the two-bit characters make this a summer wipeout.

April 23, 2009 Full Review

Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

When Jessica Alba was at the MTV Movie Awards she called Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer the best family/comedy of the summer. That alone should spell disaster for a superhero film.

March 3, 2008 Full Review

Jeff Bayer

The Scorecard Review

It doesn't suck. Or maybe I went into the theater with such low expectations that it couldn't possibly be as bad as my imagination had concocted.

February 28, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Brandon Fibbs

BrandonFibbs.com

Parents longing for entertaining and intelligent family superhero fare would be much better served renting 2005's Zathura or Sky High.

January 4, 2008 Full Review

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

While the gags are aimed squarely at a family audience, there's nothing wrong with that and this is certainly a film you could take even tiddlers to without worrying they are going to have nightmares later.

December 7, 2007 Full Review

Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

While the Silver Surfer cushions the blow, this is a sequel I can ultimately throw away...

November 17, 2007 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Can't anyone in comic book movies come up with new villains anymore?

November 17, 2007 Full Review | Comments (2)

JoBlo

JoBlo's Movie Emporium

This sequel is out, overall succumbing to the weaknesses of the first movie, which, once again, relegates it to sitting at the kids' table at the gathering of comic book movies.

November 8, 2007 Full Review

Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

Much better than the first; OK for tweens and up.

October 31, 2007 Full Review

Sandie Angulo Chen

Common Sense Media

The two-disc 'special edition' DVD provides a pair of commentaries and a whole herd of additional features on the second disc.

October 5, 2007 Full Review

Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

The Rise of the Silver Surfer is definitely better than you'd expect. It's also a popcorn flick full of the same old slop. For everything it gets right... it provides even more fuel for the faithfuls' ire.

September 30, 2007 Full Review

Bill Gibron

PopMatters

• 1. Johnny Storm: Show off.
  – Submitted by Matthew D (5 months ago)
• 1. Victor Von Doom: Let's all go for a spin!
  – Submitted by Matthew D (5 months ago)
• 1. Ben Grimm: OK. That one hurt.
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• 1. Ben Grimm: Yeah, that's right. Keep running, Boo-Boo!
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• 1. Silver Surfer: I will no longer serve. This is the end, for us both.
  – Submitted by Matthew D (6 months ago)
• 1. Johnny Storm: To quote a friend of mine. It's clobbering time.
  – Submitted by Matthew D (6 months ago)

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