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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 166
Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 105

While an improvement on its predecessor, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is nevertheless a juvenile, simplistic picture that has little benefit beyond its special effects.

Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 23

While an improvement on its predecessor, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is nevertheless a juvenile, simplistic picture that has little benefit beyond its special effects.

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The world's most famous team of astronauts-cum-superheroes returns in the effects-heavy sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. As the story opens, Sue Storm (aka The Invisible Girl [Jessica Alba]) and Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic [Ioan Gruffudd]) prepare for their upcoming, superhero-studded wedding celebration. But Reed cannot stay focused on the nuptials -- he's distracted by wire reports of a bizarre, comet-like object hurtling toward the Earth with tremendous force, triggering

PG, 1 hr. 31 min.

Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Tim Story

Written By: Don Payne, Mark Frost

In Theaters: Jun 15, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Oct 2, 2007

Box Office:$131.8M

20th Century Fox

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 Source: Slate

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Dana Stevens

Slate

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

June 18, 2007 Comment

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 Source: Chicago Reader

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

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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 Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Scott Brown

Entertainment Weekly

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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 Source: Salon.com

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Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is a vast and significant improvement -- if not quite "fantastic," then the next best thing: It does not suck.

June 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Rob Salem

Toronto Star

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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 Source: Frank's Reel Reviews

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Frank Wilkins

Frank's Reel Reviews

Boring is the deal.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Movies.com

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Dave White

Movies.com

A little tastier but still far from a gourmet feast.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com

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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 Source: Boston Phoenix

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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 Source: The Scorecard Review

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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 Source: BrandonFibbs.com

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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 Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

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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 Source: Eye for Film

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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 Source: Cinema Crazed

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

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

November 17, 2007 Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium

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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 Source: Window to the Movies

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Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

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

October 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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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 Source: Apollo Guide

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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 Source: PopMatters

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Bill Gibron

PopMatters

A big improvement over Story's first Fantastic Four outing.

September 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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James Plath

Movie Metropolis

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In this sequel to "Fantastic Four", the super hero foursome have to deal with a new foe. Just as Reed(Ioan Gruffudd) and Sue(Jessica Alba) are about to get married, the world comes under attack by the Silver Surfer. The Surfer has been sent to earth to prepare it for it's doom by Galactus, a giant world eating cloud.

April 29, 2012

Everett Johnson

Super Reviewer

Better than the first, but still too silly and mediocre.

October 2, 2011

Eric Alvarez

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