DVD Review - Fantastic 4 - Rise of the Silver Surfer

By Rob Sullivan on January 31, 2008 9:14 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
ff2.jpgThere has been a lot of criticism about The latest Fantastic 4 - Rise of the Silver Surfer. But I have to say that I liked it.

Maybe it's cause the characters are familiar.  Maybe it's just because Jessica Alba never fails to impress (especially in her outfit).

But seriously, I did enjoy the movie.   We got to learn a little more about the characters.  While character development was a little lacking, there still was some.

That's the problem with a lot of sequels (which I didn't find in this movie) - Character development goes out the door in favor of bigger special effects.

The movie is about how the Silver Surfer is going to destroy the world.  We soon find out, however, that he does so not because he wants too but because he has too.

Of course the Fantastic Four set out to stop him but in the mean time Dr. Doom manages to resurrect himself and he intercepts the Surfer before the 4 can get to him.



Not surprisingly, Doom has other plans but we don't find out about that until later.  In fact, Doom starts out seeming to have a general interest in the survival of the world.

Ultimately they convince the Surfer not to destroy the world and in fact turn on the force which compels  him to destroy planet after planet.

I guess my only real problem with the movie is that they combined 2 legendary comic books into one story line.  I would have liked to see the Silver Surfer in his own movie.

In the end I liked this movie (as I like all comic book hero movies).  These are characters I am familiar with growing up.  We read comics and imagine what the comic would be like in real life and now here we are - we have many of our favorite comic book heros coming to life on the big screen - Spiderman, Batman, X-men and more.

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