Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Michael Chiklis, Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd, Chris Evans, Kerry Washington
With the wedding ruined and the future of the world at stake, it’s showtime. Suddenly, Tim Story goes CGI crazy delivering scene after scene of edge-of-your-seat action that will make your eyeballs bleed.
With a livelier script and stronger production values, this sequel far outdoes the 2004 original.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is an enjoyable sequel that delivers humour, likeable characters, great special effects and plenty of comic book-style action, though fans hoping for a glimpse of Galactus should prepare for disappointment.
In the universe of dark and gloomy superheroes, this foursome are still dipping into the lighter side of fantastic.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it gets a whole lot better. Fantastic 2 may not hold a candle to Marvel's crown jewels, but by dialling down the camp it at least makes amends for its dreary predecessor.
It's all quite harmless, the shape-shifting plot does not extend much beyond 90 minutes, and Alba still looks good in a jumpsuit. We've seen it before, we'll see it again.
KAPOW! The world’s most boring superheroes return to lull us back to sleep in a sequel that could put the makers of Nytol out of business.
The banter between characters is laboured and unfunny, while there is also a pointless in-joke involving Stan Lee, creator of the original comic, being turned away from Storm's marriage. You may wish to turn away from this exercise in coercive banality.
Top Critic It's all very silly and the Four's life together has all the gravitas of an episode of the Monkees. Entertaining, though.
Top Critic Top Critic Bigger, better and more polished than the first, with a quite satisfactory ratio of action set-pieces and a lot of juvenile japery squarely aimed at its PG and fanboy audience.
Top Critic At last! A comic-book block-buster that doesn’t feel the need to justify its own existence with ponderous philosophical subtext and bloated running times.
Top Critic When Jessica Alba was at the MTV Movie Awards she called Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer the best family/comedy of the summer. That alone should spell disaster for a superhero film.
Parents longing for entertaining and intelligent family superhero fare would be much better served renting 2005's Zathura or Sky High.
Can’t anyone in comic book movies come up with new villains anymore?
This sequel is out, overall succumbing to the weaknesses of the first movie, which, once again, relegates it to sitting at the kids' table at the gathering of comic book movies.
An off-brand superhero movie, the cinematic equivalent of one of those generic breakfast cereals with a badly drawn squirrel for a mascot.
For a film that's supposed to be playful, it's an awful, tedious drudge.
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