TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Lawbolisted Powerful

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

TownRootGuy Despite being at least 30 minutes too short and just not as good as the first one I still really like this movie.It has great eye candy, awesome FX, good action, a great cast AND the burns are rock solid laugh generators. I think this is a must see for fans of the genre. I enjoy watching it every year.

Pokedom I don't even need to talk about anything that happens in the first half, because it's all dumb, boring, and visually looks really bad. The second half is where I wanted to lose hope in humanity.Around the start of the last half of the movie, they begin to tease Galactus. If you've never read a comic with him in it or never even played Marvel Vs Capcom 3, you probably don't know who that is. In essence, he's a giant man in a blue and purple suit under a big goofy purple helmet. He was once known as Galan in a universe before the prime one in the comics. He somehow survived the death of said Universe and was merged with an entity known as the Sentience of the Multiverse to become Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds, the Monster of All Worlds, The Hunger That Does Not Cease, etc. He's quite possibly my favorite villain in the entire Marvel franchise. You can't even kill him by conventional means. He can only be defeated by using The Ultimate Nullifier, and even then he manages to live on anyways. You can negotiate with him to become his Herald in exchange for your planet's safety, but you literally don't have an afterlife if you do so. And what Galactus hungers for, he takes without question. If your planet is the one he's after, your basically screwed. He's the final boss in Marvel Vs Capcom 3's arcade mode (and UMVC3), and while they did screw up his AI to the point where he's too easy, he still has some of the best lines and one of the best music tracks in the entire game. "You dare pit your mystic arts against the Power Cosmic? ARROGANT FOOL!" -Galactus. I'm just gonna copy and paste a link for the music at the bottom of this review so you can understand what we're dealing with here. Just listening to it without any knowledge of his actual design gives off a menacing vibe. Better still, you can actually play as him in all his glory in Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3! And it might be one of the most fun experiences you'll have in a while. Giant lasers, screen wide punch attacks, one-hit-kills, it's so much fun! God I love that game. Please purchase it! You will not be let down, unlike with this movie.So you can imagine my disappointment and rage when, in this garbage film, he's just a cloud of smoke.That's literally it. He's just a cloud of smoke. They tease his helmet in a scene where he goes over Saturn, and his helmet looks pretty okay. Then he actually arrives at Earth. There's no indication that he even has a helmet. There's no indication that he's even a he. He's just a cloud of "cosmic" vapor. And it kind of looks like a hand when it looms closer to the Earth. I don't- I DON'T KNOW! This is possibly the worst redesign a movie has ever given a villain. At least in Doctor Strange, Dormammu may look really bad compared to his actual comic book design, but they made up for that by having one of the coolest sequences in any movie, maybe ever!Botched design aside, whatever. Galactus is on Earth, and unless Reed Richards over here wants to give up his afterlife then Earth is about to be torn apart. Get ready for really cool destruction!...Oh wait, that didn't happen either.Literally all that happens in the climax where the cloud of smoke draws near is just that; the cloud of smoke draws near, the sky darkens... and that's it. No destruction, nothing cool, just a waste of time. And as Doctor Doom is fighting a powered-up version of The Human Torch, Silver Surfer flies up to stop him. Hah! What an idiot! He's already given up so much, and now he's trying to kill the unkillable!Oh. It actually worked. He literally threw his Silver Surfer brand Surfboard into the "Heart of Galactus" and blew up. Then Galactus went bye-bye. Wow. Just... wow.Please don't watch this movie. I don't even have anything else to say. I just... I just really want there to be an actually good version of Galactus in some movie soon. Read up on his history, I'll provide the link. Please do your research on the greatest Marvel villain of all time, and stay far away from this film.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glT8P09WC3Ihttp://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Galactus_(Earth-616)

jimbo-53-186511 In some ways The Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer got off to a rather bad start when I realised that it opened up with arguably the two dullest members of the Fantastic Four getting married. I wish I could say that I was wrong and that I was being unnecessarily harsh, but sadly this second film in the franchise never really worked for me;After I watch a film I'll usually look at its rating and see what the critics thought of the film that I've watched and I must admit to being somewhat surprised that the critics generally gave this film 'positive' feedback and many said that it was more fun and less boring than the first film. Well maybe I watched a different film because I actually thought it was more boring, less fun and less interesting than the first film...Starting the film with the approaching wedding of arguably the two dullest characters in the franchise didn't give the film the best of starts as far as I was concerned, but to then drag this aspect out for about a third of the running time meant that the film started to get on my wick. Even when the film does get going it never really caught my interest mainly because I felt that the story wasn't explored or developed properly - little is really learnt about the Silver Surfer or his cause (other than helping some other worldly being to destroy planets across the universe). The writers never really attempt to explain a lot of what is happening in this film which wouldn't be as much of a problem if the film had a sense of fun to distract from the poor storytelling, but because it doesn't the weak story stands out all the more. I also thought that the idea of The Fantastic Four temporarily switching powers could potentially have been interesting, but here it seemed to be played more for laughs and ultimately went nowhere and had little impact on the story. The only thing that I actually liked about this film was Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans as The Thing and The Human Torch respectively. Their camaraderie did give the film some lift and both Chiklis and Evans were every bit as good as they were in the first film. It's a shame really that many other plot elements are so weak.I'm somewhat surprised that this film has a similar rating to the first film as to me there are pretty much worlds apart in terms of quality. Whereas the first film offered the viewer an interesting exploration of normal people getting superpowers following exposure to radiation coupled with heart, amusing banter and a fairly well developed villain. The sequel offers a poorly developed and uninteresting story, a dull antagonist that offers no real menace, a silly use of superpowers and to top it all off it also offers one of the weakest ending to a film that I've ever seen. Those looking for silly special effects will be well-catered for me, but if you're like me and value content over style then this sequel is one I suggest you avoid.

caseynicholson I just watched this movie on Blu-Ray, and it was the first time I'd seen it since viewing it in the theater during its 2007 release. Then and now I found this movie to be much better than the reviews and reception it received. The only thing I can figure is that in 2007 people were just beginning to grow tired of the first wave of superhero movies. The movie is a bit hokey--but that is in staying true to its source material. As in the original film, "Rise of the Silver Surfer" features a "Thing" costume that could have been a bit better done, and an actor playing Mr. Fantastic who doesn't look a whole lot like the Reed Richards of the comic books. But the movie features a dynamic and fun plot, a well-paced storyline, extraordinary effects, and an altogether good movie experience. That being the case, I'm going to give this film 9/10 stars, after having given its predecessor 8/10. "Rise of the Silver Surfer" is actually one of the better comic book adaptations that I've seen--yes, MCU movies included. Galactus is neat (even if a complete reimagining of the comic character), the Silver Surfer storyline is neat, Doom's return is neat. It's just a neat movie all in all! If you haven't seen it or haven't seen it in a while, give it a shot. You may be surprised at how much you enjoy this film that tends to get lots of criticism.