It’s funnier and splashier than the original, but I still can’t quite recommend it.
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06/18/07
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The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:10
Rotten:22
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Jun 15, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $131,766,943
Synopsis: The sequel to the 2005 blockbuster FANTASTIC FOUR, RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER finds the Marvel superhero quartet of Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), Johnny Storm (Chris... [More]
Starring: Michael Chiklis, Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd, Chris Evans
Director: Tim Story
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Reviews for The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Top CriticThe first movie's genesis story was more fun than the perfunctory doomsday scheme trotted out here.
06/18/07
Top CriticIf you swept the cosmic dust of the superhero boom into a flimsy dustpan, you'd have the Fantastic Four franchise.
06/18/07
Top CriticFantastic 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.
06/15/07
Top CriticFantastic 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.
06/15/07
Top CriticFor non comic book fans over the age of 13, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is a tedious, incoherent bore. For comic book fans of any age, it is an atrocity.
06/15/07
Top CriticCompared with its predecessor, the new movie contains less silliness to offend purists. At the same time, there isn't much to thrill anyone, either.
06/15/07
Top CriticRise of the Silver Surfer is an existentially and aesthetically unnecessary sequel to the equally irrelevant if depressingly successful Fantastic Four.
06/15/07
Top CriticIn Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, our heroes get what they deserve: a decent action flick with a jolt of visual wow.
06/15/07
Top CriticUnlike the recent spate of blackened threequels, those bottom-of-the-bag Spideys and Shreks and Pirates and Oceans, this kernel does pop.
06/15/07
Top CriticYes, the too-hot Alba is still miscast, and the film suffers from clumsy moments. But when it soars, it soars, and it is both blessedly brief and bloodless.
06/15/07
Top CriticYou don't walk out of Rise of the Silver Surfer feeling as if you've gone three rounds with the Thing. This is a case where getting less than you bargained for feels like a victory.
06/15/07
Top CriticBetter than its juvenile predecessor.
06/15/07
Top CriticAt times silly and then serious, this Fantastic Four is the cinematic equivalent of multiple personality disorder.
06/15/07
Top CriticThe Marvel comic book this movie is based on was never as sitcom-ish as the two films it's inspired.
06/15/07
Top CriticMaybe it has something to do with seriously diminished expectations, but Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is an improvement of sorts over the lifeless 2005 edition.
06/14/07
Top CriticThe film fails to sustain its modest running time of 87 minutes.
06/14/07
Top CriticOnce you accept that Fantastic Four is not trying to be anything deeper than popcorn fare, the ride can be fun -- with an ending more satisfying than Spider-Man 3.
06/14/07
Top CriticEarnest, gee-whiz and foursquare, this simple and intentionally inoffensive sequel gets points for being easy to take and scrupulously avoiding obvious sources of irritation.
06/14/07
Top CriticSentient humans should stay away; all others may enter confident that their IQs are already in the Chernobyl-fried range and will not be affected, except for downward.
06/14/07
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