Must See Movie...

The first must-see film of the year.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

A Fantastic Wedding...that was the plot, right? Sue and Reed are finally getting hitched.Oh, wait, they switch powers, yeah, that happened. A troupe and an expected and welcomed one in Sci-Fi Television shows, one that gives the actors the chance to playfully mock one another and gives the audience some comic relief...but not really something you'd expect in a major high budget movie In a movie like this it feel sort of cheap, lazy, but hey, we get the Silver Surfer...kind of.We get a few glimpses of the Silver Surfer that is. We get to see him fly around on his surf board and really do nothing at all. The Silver Surfer basically just, well, surfs.And then back to the wedding and then...well, there are bad guys and big ones and, well, they sort of get shadowed by, well, nothing.Don't get me wrong, it was OK, more or less. There were entertaining parts. You get to see Alba almost naked again rather than developing her as a character and Johnny and Ben are entertaining.But the Silver Surfer is in the title and, well, that made for the disappointment. We expected him to do something big, not just surf.

The Fantastic Four learn that they aren't the only super-powered beings in the universe when they square off against the powerful Silver Surfer and the planet-eating Galactus. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer might not be the greatest Marvel film of all time but for sure it's way better than the reboot which was boring and killed the F4 once and for all. Chris Evans, Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis return as the Fantastic 4 once again and they are all great in their roles as for Julian McMahon as Dr. Doom? So far he is the best Doom we got and that says a lot he also looks like Doom and not a kryptonite robot and i loved Silver Surfer with this whole shiny metal that he is covered with and he rides his board and he becomes cool in less than 2 seconds he is played by Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne. Now the problems with this film is easily Galactus himself cause instead of a giant purple/blue guy we get a cloud and it makes no sense, also the film has some pretty laughable cgi mostly upon Mr. Fantastic and it doesn't have a lot of action as it should but overall it's a nice pop corn movie that it does it's job well unlike the remake 8/10.

Released in 2007, "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" continues the adventures of the Fantastic Four with Reed (Ioan Gruffudd) and Sue (Jessica Alba) getting married, but their wedding is interrupted by a literal herald of global destruction, the Silver Surfer (voiced by none other than Laurence Fishburne). Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans and Julian McMahon return as The Thing, the Human Torch and Dr. Doom respectively, not to mention Kerry Washington as Alicia Masters. Andre Braugher and Beau Garrett are on hand as General Hager and Capt. Frankie Raye.I've been a fan of the Fantastic Four since my childhood and felt that the 2005 movie was a very good set-up for the series despite fumbling the ball with Dr. Doom and a mediocre action climax. With the presence of the Silver Surfer and Galactus I was expecting a great sequel, but it was not to be. The first half is quite good, however, with the main cast comfortable in their roles and obviously having a good time. But something goes awry in the second half where the proceedings get dull. It's hard to pinpoint the problem, but clearly they needed to work some kinks out in the script. On the positive side, Dr. Doom is better portrayed than in the first film. Despite my criticisms, there's enough good here to give "Rise of the Silver Surfer" a lukewarm 'thumbs up,' just don't expect greatness.The film runs 92 minutes and was shot in British Columbia, California, New York City, Germany (The Black Forest), China, Japan and Greenland.GRADE: B-

Perhaps the dopiest supervillain or superhero depending on the point in the film in the Marvel universe is the ridiculous Silver Surfer. Literally he's a spaceman on a surfboard. One imagines Stan Lee struggling with a looming deadline ahead of a beach vacation and just rolling with whatever the first idea that came to mind. Given a whole movie around this loser concept, the film had an institutional upper limit on quality. Not that it worked hard to overcome the Silver Surfer handicap. The film growns under the weight of extensive product placement for some reason mostly around mediocre products most notably Dodge motor cars (one imagines the Fantastic Four quickly tired of going to the dealer to solve minor quality hiccups with their Dodge Fantasticar). It also struggles with Chris Evans and Michael Chilkris clearly feeling upstaged by their more talented, attractive and necessary members of the foursome so much so they spend a distracting amount of the movie breaking the fourth wall. While o plot, characters, acting and advertising all come in sub optimal, it would be remiss to not notice the smaller, inferior details. Why did Costume Design just recycle the one-piece blue and black unitards from "Stark Treak Next Generation". More importantly, did women have to take the whole thing off in order to pee? The Silver Surfer most remains unresponsive to the hero's questions but he does answer some queries particularly around his romantic interest back home. Does he just not understand the heroes or is it that he finds their dialog not worth of responding to much like most of the audience feels about the script? The film poses many questions, the most of important of which is whether you can get some of your ticket price back. In short, keep in mind that Marvel produces so many superheroes that most won't be that good.