Rise of Silver Surfer Likely To Receive Lukewarm Reviews
Rise of the Silver surfer will not be well-reviewed. Will it make a ton of money anyway? You bet.
Two summers ago, "Fantastic Four" overcame mostly negative reviews and garnered around $330 million a pattern which is likely to be followed by its sequel, "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," which opens tomorrow. In his Chicago Tribune blog, Michael Phillips writes, "It is passable comic book stuff, dumb and loud. Loud. LOUD." He adds, "A fair amount of dialog is assigned to the topic of media celebrity and the pressures involved. This represents the summer's superhero theme, what with millions of multiplex attendees having sat through Peter Parker's egotistical fame-bingeing in Spider-Man 3. I believe it's time to retire the burden-of-fame plot device. It has a way of making an audience root for an asteroid from the planet Obscurity to crash in out of nowhere."
Will bad reviews stop people from going to see it? Don't count on it; after all, people have been waiting TWO YEARS to see what happens to the fantastic four, and anything featuring Jessica Alba will attract throngs of horny teenagers.
