Marvel Movie Madness! Part 6: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Samuel Cannon

well, i haven't seen this movie in a while, but from what i remember, looking back, the entire franchise was pretty terrible. Human Torch should have his own movie, that would have been better. But now he's playing Captain America, so that's a good thing.

May 20 - 02:05 AM

Joshua Dinsmore

Never saw this one. And I'm ok with that. :)

May 20 - 02:21 AM

CJ Calvin

Both films are terrible but this one really does sink to a lower level than the first with the super cheesy humor and the hokey "appearance" of Galactus. I'm really glad Chris Evans, whose solid in everything I've ever seen him in, will get to shine in what will hopefully be a good superhero flick with Captain America. The first FF movie was at best mediocre but this one makes the first look like a good movie. And Jessica Alba? Yes, she's beautiful. But the chick can't act and when I see her name attached to a movie or something now I try to avoid it. Maybe, hopefully, one day we'll have a fitting and truly epic Fantastic Four movie.

May 20 - 02:27 AM

Worth Watching

It would be interesting if Darren Aronofsky were to take over FF. He could turn the franchise over to something good like Christopher Nolan did with Batman. Too bad Aronofsky had to drop out of the latest Wolverine installment.

May 20 - 03:35 AM

Luke J.C.

People seem to not like these fantastic four movies. Maybe that's because in their fantasies superheroes are only about being cool, tough and threatening. That is a very adolescent approach to superheroes. Superheroes are just fantasy characters and it's okay to try anything with them. What I like about these fantastic four movies is their charm, their friendliness, their NOT-'i'm gonna kick your ass'-attitude. It's about sympathetic characters (which Ioan and Jessica embody perfectly), even family, joining wits and forces to face, in this case, the downfall of earth. I'm not claiming that this is what all movies should be like, but it has qualities that other superhero-movies lack.
And a dr. Doom who cleverly deceives the army and the ff, a world threatened by galactus, the mysterious silver surfer who might make or break the world and the ff who figure it all out, this is almost the most perfect fantastic four movie imaginable to me. The force-switching seemed a bit over the top, but eventually I can still accept it pretty easily. This is light and charming entertainment, and I like it for what it is, a lot.

May 20 - 03:42 AM

Sharukh Khan

Fantastic Article. Hulk is superb film

May 20 - 04:53 AM

Michael McCann

The Fantastic Four movies had the material be great, but unfortunately it was not given the same opportunities that other Marvel properties have had, i.e. good direction, writing, acting.

May 20 - 05:06 AM

Captain Terror

I seem to be in the minority regarding Evans. In the comics I always felt that Torch was arrogant and brash (a "hothead", if you will), but in a likable way. I found Evans to be obnoxious and annoying, in an unlikable way.

As for the film itself, I don't remember enough of it to comment, which IS a comment in a way, I guess.

May 20 - 05:30 AM

Henry Owens

I hated this movie so much. One of the only films i've actually walked out on.

May 20 - 06:01 AM

Takis Iomos

I saw this the same day I saw Hostel II. I'm not sure which made me more sick (no, wait, it was definitely Hostel II). It definitely seemed like they retooled the script to make it PG and kid friendly, without doing a full re-write, resulting in those odd bits of adult humor.

But what's up with the ability for violent scenes to be allowed in PG movies? in FF2, that guy gets half his body destroyed; no blood, but pretty friggin' violent. In Harry Potter 6, Malfoy stomps on the face of a completely immobile, paralyzed opponent, breaking his nose. And yet some side boob = pg-13? C'mon.

May 20 - 07:09 AM

First Last

I thought this was a big improvement over the first. (The critical consensus is with me on this) At least the action was better and the FX a little more special. Plus, much less Doom! He was just absolutely embarrassing. I hated watching the bastardized version of their origin in the first film. Especially the would-be love triangle over the Invisible Girl. Doesn't really work when both men seem gay.

I also think Chris Evans gets far too much credit. He was okay. I just think he just stood out amongst the horror all around him.

What was really embarrassing was watching the clever set peieces revolving around the elastic girl in "The Incredibles," then comparing that to the "imagination" shown the in Fantastic Four. I think Reed slides his hand under a door at one point.

The characters didn't even make sence. One minute the Thing hates Doom next minute he's turning on his best friend Reed because Doom said so.

And as bad as the product placement was in Rise, I thought Jonny setting a flame broiled whopper billboard on fire was even more agregious. What happened with these movies anyone. At one point it was rumored to be directed by Steven Soderberg and starting George Clooney? How did we end up with the director of Barbershop and the star of nothing?

May 20 - 07:35 AM

Mister Vile

All i remember about this movie is how angry i was that Silver Surfer did nothing. They might as well put "The Rise of Stan Lee" in the title, they had just about as much screen time.

May 20 - 07:50 AM

John Taylor

I enjoyed both movies for what they were, mindless comicbook movies. But they did drop the ball on numerous levels, especially with casting that guy who played Doom. Doom is suppose to be from a slavic country, yet he didn't have any sliver of an accent. His acting was no where near what Doom was like in the comics.

The actor who play SS wasn't bad; but did he get his powers from Galactus (like in the comics), was he born with them, or did he get them from his board? In the movie, it looks like he got his powers from the board; pretty lame. Also, why didn't he use his abilities to destroy Galactus when he first encountered him?

In the comics, Galactus was just energy until a race created armor to house his power, so I understand why he's a cloud in the movie but it did look pretty dumb. I suppose it's difficult to create a CGI ship the size of a small moon. Oh, wait, George Lucas already did that. :-)

May 20 - 08:30 AM