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Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Marvel is or has been in the process for quite a while adapting all its comic book heroes to the silver screen. Is it because Hollywood has run out of original ideas? Maybe, but mainly because they figure since Spider-Man and X-Men, comics are cash cows. Some are, but for the most part the quality suffers with these rushed together, half packaged final products.

The sequel to Fantastic Four, subtitled Rise of the Silver Surfer, continues the story where the first one left off. Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd) is about to marry the Invisible Woman (Jessica Alba), when the superhero team learns they are not the only super powered beings. Cue the Silver Surfer, voiced by Laurence Fishburne, sent from the planet eating Galactus to exterminate the Earth. Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman put their marriage on hold and rejoin with their better half counterparts, the Thing (Michael Chiklis) and the Human Torch (Chris Evans), to ensure Earth’s survival.

My first complaint is why did they make a sequel? I hated the first one with its stilted acting and horrible writing that is spoon fed to us against our will. The answer to that is simply to make money. The first one was considered a box office success, so why not try and capitalize by cashing in on a sequel. I mean they are making a sequel to The Punisher. Has Marvel no shame?

Well, Rise of the Silver Surfer managed to be worse than its predecessor. With horrible dialogue and chemistry between the characters that seems nothing short of artificial, it’s a tough watch. I held my breath hoping that the “new” special effects incorporated would be the saving grace, but pretty much everything is revealed in the trailer with the Surfer dodging a missile attack.

It’s been a long held belief by me that anything Jessica Alba is in is a bomb with the exception of Sin City. Being nothing more than eye candy and married to a guy named Cash, her acting is horrendous and makes every movie she’s in suffer, yet guys across America have their hearts go pitter patter anytime they see her face. Could she have been the downfall of this movie comic? I’d say definitely with its terrible writing, Fantastic Four suffers.

Rise of the Silver Surfer is nothing more than a train wreck that oozes out corny, mind numbing dialogue with phony bologna CGI action sequences that don’t faze us. It looks like they threw a whole bunch of crap in a blender and whatever stuck, stuck. And that’s the movie. I pray that they end it here and don’t have a third installment.

Written by: John Berkowitz

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