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  • Starring: Chris Evans, Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis
  • Summary: Marvel's first family of superheroes, The Fantastic Four, meets their greatest challenge yet in The Rise of the Silver Surfer as the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare for its destruction. (20th Century Fox)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 33
  2. Negative: 6 out of 33
  1. It's almost a surprise that the sequel is actually better - much better - than the original.
  2. Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    60
    It's miscast, underwritten, muddily shot, and slackly paced, but there's something captivating about its unabashed shittiness.
  3. Reviewed by: Angie Errigo
    60
    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.
  4. 38
    A tedious, incoherent bore.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 70
  2. Negative: 22 out of 70
  1. JCA.
    10
    Very good, the best superhero film ever since X2.
  2. BenH
    8
    I dunno what the problem is with critics these days... they don't seem to rate a movie on what it is.. they want another Schindlers list or something equally as deep. News flash!, comic books aren't meant to be deep (Well most of them), they are meant to be action a bit of comedy and stick to the storyline of the comic book that made them so damn.. well.. fantastic. I really liked some of the stuff they did the merging of powers was cool and i never really had a bored moment in it. However i do have three very big problems with this film 1) Silver Surfer never says.. TO ME MY BOARD!, even though they give him the perfect chance to do it. 2) Galactus is a giant smoke screen and the little we do see of his face is fire? What the hell, I love silver surfer but the possibility of seeing Galactus was what drew me to this movie.. I didn't see him once.. i saw a shadow of his head on Jupiter :S that was about it... very disappointing. 3) Silver Surfer who Galactus gave a tiny bit of his power was able to kill galactus... and yet seemingly survive at the end.... ok cmon now your stretching things.. Galactus would have laughed, with that awesome voice of his, at the pure audacity of such an attempt.. Silver Surfer is meant to beg for Galactuses mercy and then be trapped to earth forever for his treachery... Why Stan lee allowed someone to change this we will never know i guess. Ok other then that i was entertained but severely disappointed at the changes in storyline. Expand
  3. I found this movie quite a disappointing sequel, but still it is good. It is still with the memorable four superheroes, but the plot is quite disappointing. I don't know how this sequel gets better rating than the first movie. Still it haves it's great moments, and great villains. (7.0) Expand
  4. "Fantastic Four 2" is extremely terrible. Everything has gotten one step worse, and the more you watch the more paint it will bring you.

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