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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:5
Rotten:5
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: While an improvement on its predecessor, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is nevertheless a juvenile, simplistic picture that has little benefit beyond its special effects.
Theatrical Release:15-06-2007
Synopsis: The sequel to the 2005 blockbuster FANTASTIC FOUR, RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER finds the Marvel superhero quartet of Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), Johnny Storm (Chris... [More]
Starring: Michael Chiklis, Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd, Chris Evans
Director: Tim Story
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 CriticIt's all very silly and the Four's life together has all the gravitas of an episode of the Monkees. Entertaining, though.
Top CriticDAZZLING GLOBE-SKIPPING, LANDMARK-BASHING ACTION
Top CriticBigger, 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 CriticAt 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 CriticRise of the Silver Surfer is an existentially and aesthetically unnecessary sequel to the equally irrelevant if depressingly successful Fantastic Four.
Top CriticAt times silly and then serious, this Fantastic Four is the cinematic equivalent of multiple personality disorder.
Top CriticMaybe it has something to do with seriously diminished expectations, but Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is an improvement of sorts over the lifeless 2005 edition.
Top CriticEarnest, gee-whiz and foursquare, this simple and intentionally inoffensive sequel gets points for being easy to take and scrupulously avoiding obvious sources of irritation.
Top CriticFaithfully mining one of the Marvel franchise's more intriguing mythologies, the sequel proves every bit as disposable as its predecessor, with even less character definition and several tons more poundage in the f/x department.
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