Fantastic 4 Review
June 27th, 2007First, let me preface this review with the admission that I really hated the first Fantastic 4 movie. I thought it was ridiculous, forced, poorly acted, and worst of all boring and pointless. I could care less whether any of the Fantastic 4 characters lived or died, especially the seemingly (I still think this) vapid Jessica Alba character, who by the way didn’t exactly pull my heart strings in the second installment either.
With that said, I must admit I found myself enjoying the second Fantastic 4, Rise of the Silver Surfer, at least more than the first one. There was definitely more action, but the movie just still seemed to be a lot of “fluff”, with the destruction of the world by Galactus, the giant planet-eating being seeming not so imminent and the in-fighting and escapades of the characters seeming to be more of the focus.
The Silver Surfer, who is voiced over by Lawrence Fishburne, does look very good, and I like the way they didn’t just CG him when he came off his surf board and lost his “luster” like the Terminator in Terminator 2, but instead it looked like they had a real man in head to toe makeup - it was a very cool look that wasn’t over the top or cheesy. The special effects over all seemed to be much better in the second Fantastic 4 movie, but the effect still left in the end, at least with me, was that I did not feel any closer to the characters.
I do think it had more humor in it though, so I did appreciate that. My final note : I hope Julian McMahon doesn’t stink up the screen again in the next movie as Dr. Doom, he really needs to give up on movie acting and stick with cheesy dramas on TV.
