Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Critic Reviews
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One of the most enjoyable pictures of the season.Read the full review
Doesn't quite live up to the billing, but it improves mightily on the original. And the superhero family can thank its new addition for the upgrade.Read the full review
It's miscast, underwritten, muddily shot, and slackly paced, but there's something captivating about its unabashed shittiness.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Earnest, gee-whiz and foursquare, this simple and intentionally inoffensive sequel gets points for being easy to take and scrupulously avoiding obvious sources of irritation.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Good fun -- more fun than in the original -- punctuated by some lines of admirable awfulness.Read the full review
An improvement of sorts over the lifeless 2005 edition.Read the full review
The dialogue aims young and low, and sounds translated from comic-book Esperanto.Read the full review
Purists will balk at a pointless--and boring--revamp of a major villain, but that's the least of the film's worries. Only a few isolated shots of the group striding together as a team make Surfer feel like a Fantastic Four movie.Read the full review
