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Fantastic Four – Rise of the Silver Surfer
Spoiler alert - Not a buttload of spoilers, but some...
First of all, the most “fantastic” part of this movie was a great, ballsy cameo by Stan Lee (“But… I’m Stan Lee!”)
Jessica Alba needs to dial down on the Botox treatments and the eye makeup (including the blue contact lenses). In the first FF, she was pretty hot. This time she looked like more like a truck-stop hooker. (And if that doesn’t get her to quit calling me, nothing will!)
There was no chemistry whatsoever between Susan Storm (Alba) and her fiancée, Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd). (I guess) they tried, but their scenes together were about as sizzling as a brass toilet seat. There was more sexual tension between her and damn near everybody in the movie including her own brother, the Torch (...I know. Eeww.) There was even some friction going on between her and the Silver Surfer (apparently, she reminded him of his former girlfriend back on Melmac or wherever).
The Torch (Chris Evans) is obviously having the most fun with his character. Cocky and narcissistic, and loving every minute of it.
The Silver Surfer was voiced by Laurence Fishburne. He did his best to sound spooky and otherwordly, but it was just Morpheus in a silver suit.
Dr. Doom (Julian McMahon) was again a one-note wonder; a stereotypical, arrogant, yuppie metrosexual bad guy. His one redeeming moment in the film was when he punched the HELL out of an equally irritating General.
The Thing (Michael Chiklis) was, again, the clobberin’ anti-hero who belches for comedic effect and out-growls a grizzly. ‘Nuff said.
Great special effects, a convoluted and confusing script and tepid acting - pretty much what you’d expect from a comic book popcorn movie. It wasn’t great, but it could have been a lot better.
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