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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.

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Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 25

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

Oct 2, 2007

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All Critics (166) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (105) | 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 Source: Slate
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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 Source: Time Out New York
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It's funnier and splashier than the original, but I still can't quite recommend it.

June 18, 2007
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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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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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Peppier than the stale original from 2005, and it's sprinkled with more eye candy, but no one will mistake it for brain food.

June 16, 2007 Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Boring is the deal.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Movies.com
Movies.com

A little tastier but still far from a gourmet feast.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com
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
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
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 | Comment (1)
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)
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
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
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 | Comments (2)
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
Window to the Movies

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

October 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

The same kind of lightweight but well executed comic book-based romp as its predecessor.

September 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Screen International
Screen International

For a film that's supposed to be playful, it's an awful, tedious drudge.

September 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
Antagony & Ecstasy

Characters to love, story to hate.

August 12, 2007 Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com
MovieCrypt.com

A big-budget bust, and while it isn't as awful as its lame 2005 predecessor, it does come close to achieving the former film's sense of decay.

July 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

I have read many of the legitimate criticisms of this sequel, and I agree with them, and I do not care.

July 23, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

As the Surfer rises, so too does this franchise.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment (1)
Big Picture Big Sound

While not entirely fantastic, this Four is fun, fast-paced, and family friendly.

July 12, 2007 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews
rec.arts.movies.reviews

A merciful dearth of plot in favor of mindless set pieces, so-so effects work and passable PG-rated humor.

July 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine
Boxoffice Magazine

Audience Reviews for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Reasonably entertaining
April 5, 2013
jarobb3

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Horrid and useless plot with horrid and useless acting.
March 22, 2013
Matthew Samuel Mirliani

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    1. Johnny Storm: Show off.
    – Submitted by Matthew D (6 months ago)
    1. Victor Von Doom: Let's all go for a spin!
    – Submitted by Matthew D (6 months ago)
    1. Ben Grimm: OK. That one hurt.
    – Submitted by Matthew D (6 months ago)
    1. Ben Grimm: Yeah, that's right. Keep running, Boo-Boo!
    – Submitted by Matthew D (6 months ago)
    1. Silver Surfer: I will no longer serve. This is the end, for us both.
    – Submitted by Matthew D (8 months ago)
    1. Johnny Storm: To quote a friend of mine. It's clobbering time.
    – Submitted by Matthew D (8 months ago)

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