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- 2007
- PG
- 1 h 32 m
- 2007
- PG
- 1 h 32 m
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]
Directed By: Tim Story
Written By: Don Payne, Mark Frost, John Turman, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
- 2007
- PG
- 1 h 32 m
- 2007
- PG
- 1 h 32 m
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
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6.9
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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]
Directed By: Tim Story
Written By: Don Payne, Mark Frost, John Turman, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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27% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
45
27% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
55% Mixed
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
18% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
One of the most enjoyable pictures of the season.
It's a decent comic-book movie that delivers its goods with good humor and a minimum of bloat.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 464 User Ratings
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53% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 464 User Ratings
6.9
53% Positive
248 Ratings
248 Ratings
32% Mixed
147 Ratings
147 Ratings
15% Negative
69 Ratings
69 Ratings
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At a time when tortured superheroes like Spider-Man, Superman and Batman would benefit from some serious psychotherapy, it's almost refreshing to see a comicbook caper as blithe, weightless and cheerfully dumb as Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
The early dilemma in "Rise of the Silver Surfer " is this: Save the world or marry Jessica Alba . Your conscience says, "Save the world." But the Maxim reader in you knows better.
Diverting, at times even visually impressive, but has neither the spirit or style of "Spider-Man" nor the ambition of "X-Men."
Surely the dullest of Hollywood's many comic-book-derived summer movies, "Silver Surfer" is drearier than corn dying in the Iowa sun, slower than molasses in Antarctica.
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Anyone above the age of 13 who is not a fan of comic books will find Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer to be a dull, incoherent bore. For comic book fans of any age, the cinematic mutilation of one of the most renowned and beloved Marvel comic book epics is a horror. It transforms recognisable individuals to soulless visual effects and one of the darkest and most frightening villains to an interplanetary storm cloud.
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downgrade to the first movie and the downfall of tim story's f4 frachise this movie is the "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" to the f4 franchise very mediore story but the cast carried the movie but just like x-men origins wolverine this movie made stupid changes my guess it was another fox influence like making Galactus into a cloud the same way fox thought it was a good idea by sewing deadpool mouth shut. so this movie suffers from a med plot, recycled villains and dumb changes to the main baddy. Lawarence Fishburne did a great job as silver suffer maybe they should've got of rid of tim story and find another director like the thor movies did. i think if they would've done that it would've been alot been. it feels like the charm kinda fall apart when there just too much going on and no clear direction for the story. very disappointing its such ashamed that the cast suffer from a poorly written plot.
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This sequel is an improvement over the previous Fantastic Four movie, but it’s still awful and has a lot of the same problems as its predecessor. The slightly overly campy tone, bad character depictions (especially the antagonists), bad casting (mainly for Sue Storm and Victor von Doom), etc. The acting is at least an improvement over the one in the previous Fantastic Four film and so is the action. This has more action and a better plot than previous one and Laurence Fishburne was perfectly cast as the voice of Noran Rad a.k.a. “The Silver Surfer”. That’s it for the positives. The scenes where the Fantastic Four members switched powers by touching each other were stupid, cringe-worthy, and didn’t make sense. It was somewhat explained by Reed Richards who is the scientific genius of the team, but I still don’t buy that poorly written “scientific” explanation. The general was an idiot to trust Victor over the Fantastic Four after the Human Torch accidentally screwed up their rescue mission in England and it later cost him his own life after Doctor Doom steals the Silver Surfer’s board and kills him. I actually heard that Nick Fury was originally going to have the role of the general in this sequel, but I’m so glad that idea was scrapped (because of Marvel Studios obviously owning the rights to that character instead of Constantin Film), cause that character would’ve been ruined by the idiots of Constantin. The Silver Surfer was half-assed in this movie and was heavily nerfed. It seemed that the dumbass writers did not understand his character. He’s the one who gives his silver hovering board its powers, but in this movie it’s the other way around and he is supposed to travel on his board at light speed, so the Human Torch should not have been able to catch up to him in that chase scene. The Silver Surfer in the comics still has superpowers even when he is not on his board, but in this movie he is completely powerless and useless without it. What a huge waste of the amazing actors Doug Jones (who physically portrayed the Silver Surfer by doing the CGI mo-cap for the character) and Laurence Fishburne (who dubbed the Silver Surfer’s voice). But he was still the best character in this movie and that is quite saying a lot. Doctor Doom was once again butchered and the writers and Constantin still did not seem to know what they wanted to do with the character. He is one of the top 10 best supervillains in Marvel Comics and yet, none of these movies have ever gotten him right yet and were an embarrassment to him and fans. He was such a piss poor supervillain in this movie whose motivation was idiotic. He helps knock the Silver Surfer off his board only to have himself steal it later and use it to attempt to stop and destroy Galactus, so he can have all the glory to himself even after Mister Fantastic rightfully informs him that only the Silver Surfer could control the board properly and stop Galactus and save the planet from him, but Doom being too stubborn, arrogant, egotistical, prideful, stupid, and pigheaded to listen to Reed which ultimately led to his downfall and death near the end of the third act. He technically wasn’t even really a villain in this movie, just an idiotic superhero wannabe. Don’t even get me started on Galactus. He was the absolute worst part of the movie, even worse than how Doctor Doom was portrayed. He had no lines, no face, and no voice. He was literally just a humongous CGI purple storm cloud. Constantin Film is **** for completely butchering him like that.
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Be careful what you wish for, you may get it…
For non comic book fans over the age of 13, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is a tedious, incoherent bore. For comic book fans of any age, it is an atrocity - the cinematic desecration of one of the most storied and beloved of Marvel comic book epics. It reduces iconic characters to soulless special effects and turns one of the most ominous and dangerous of all villains into an interplanetary storm cloud. The action, of which there is little, is predictable and unexciting. The so-called "drama," of which there is far too much, is painful. Soap opera writers would be embarrassed to script such drivel. Then there's the overlay of "comedy," which is intended to reflect the superheroes' comic book origins, except it's not funny and it makes the Fantastic Four seem more like the Four Stooges than a quartet of world saviors. For a story that has been kicking around in one form or another in Hollywood for 30 years (at one point, it was to have starred Olivia Newton-John as the Silver Surfer's girlfriend), it's discouraging that this is the best the filmmakers could divine.
Bring on Galactus, I advised during my review of the underwhelming first Fantastic Four movie. Well, they brought him on and promptly dissed him. He's not much of a presence in the film, always hovering out of sight if not entirely out of mind. And when it comes time for the big "reveal," the word "underwhelming" doesn't do the experience justice. Granted, the Galactus of the comic books, with his bright purple suit and ridiculous helmet, might have looked a little silly on the big screen, but his stand-in is a huge disappointment. To quote Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which also featured a space cloud heading for Earth: "Is that all there is? Is there nothing more?"
When the movie opens, Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd) and Sue Storm (Jessica Alba) are trying to get married. But their nuptial plans are interrupted when a celestial traveler called the Silver Surfer (Doug Jones, voice of Laurence Fishburne) arrives at Earth to prepare it as the next meal for his planet devouring master, Galactus. His arrival awakens Dr. Doom (Julian McMahon), who manages through nefarious means to be named the lead scientist on a government project studying the Surfer and his board. Reed, Sue, and the other members of their quartet, Johnny Storm (Chris Evans) and Ben Grimm (Michael Chilkis), find their best efforts to stop the Surfer to be futile, and every time they fail, Galactus looms ever closer.
Director Tim Story, who also helmed 2005's Fantastic Four, seems convinced that the movie must be pitched to pre-teens. There's something unsettling about a superhero movie carrying a PG rating. There are plenty of special effects but the action sequences (which include a soaring flight past New York **** and a chase featuring a souped-up Dodge - talk about a product placement!) could have been lifted from a video game and the characterization is atrocious. Story is creating a product and he has lost sight of everything that makes the Fantastic Four beloved by fans. I can't say this is the worst comic book superhero movie to grace the silver screen, but it's in the dregs (and this series hasn't even reached #3 yet).
The acting is almost uniformly cringe-inducing. If not for his work in Amazing Grace, I would be convinced that Ioan Gruffudd has no talent whatsoever. Jessica Alba makes love to the camera with her looks but no amount of physical beauty can camouflage the fact that she can't act. (The guy sitting next to me kept murmuring, "She's hot!" not "What an actress!" That, I suppose, is the point.) Nip/Tuck's Julian McMahon froths at the mouth so energetically that one wonders if he has rabies. Stripped of his Shield and trapped under foam and latex, Michael Chilkis comes close to making Ben Grimm a sympathetic figure, until bad jokes get in the way. And Chris Evans is simply annoying, even though he has what comes closest to a character arc.
This movie is a mess. It's as if the script was cobbled together in a rush then changed during filming. The ending, in addition to being a letdown, is nonsensical. A lot of what happens in the film, including the re-introduction of Dr. Doom, feels completely arbitrary. What does it say about a major motion picture when the Stan Lee cameo is the highlight? (That was the only time when I smiled.) Rise of the Silver Surfer is only 90 minutes long but it seems as protracted and pointless as anything else this summer has had to offer.
ise of the Silver Surfer is an insult to comic book aficionados and movie lovers alike. Those who know and love the Fantastic Four will curse Tim Story and 20th Century Fox as they leave multiplexes shaking their heads in disgust.
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Production Company
Twentieth Century Fox,
Constantin Film,
Marvel Studios,
1492 Pictures,
Bernd Eichinger Productions,
Ingenious Film Partners,
Dune Entertainment,
FortyFour Studios
Release Date Jun 15, 2007
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating PG
Tagline Rise
Awards
Teen Choice Awards
• 8 Nominations
Scream Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Razzie Awards
• 2 Nominations
