Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Day 16: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

History
The first Fantastic Four wasn't bad, and made enough money to warrant a sequel.

Random Connections
Michael Chiklis, who plays The Thing, is on The Shield which is an awesome show. Unfortunately, not even he could save this movie.

What's it about?
The Fantastic Four are used to their powers as well as being famous, but things are still far from normal. Now the Silver Surfer is approaching Earth, and he wants to destroy the planet. But why?

Thoughts
This movie started off good, and eventually fell apart as it went on. The banter beween Johnny Storm and The Thing is always good. The Silver Surfer looked cool, and the action was all right, but not great. The story could have been better. One of my main gripes is that it had unnecessary team ups. Good guys teaming up with bad guys out of necessity, bad guy turns on them, etc. Now that doesn't always happen in movies, sometimes the bad guy turns out to actaully be a good ally. But not this time. No, in this movie, you could see the double cross coming from a mile away. Not even a mile away. You could see it coming from farther away than the Silver Surfer's home planet. That joke fell flatter than Mr. Fantastic getting squashed by The Thing during a shitty attempt at slapstick comedy, but my point is that this movie is medicore. But then again, that's what I said about the first one the first time I saw it, and it got better on subsequent viewings.

Rating
Oh.

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