Fox's follow up to it's modest hit Fantastic Four is just what you'd expect from a sequel; bigger, more epic, taking what worked in the first movie and expands on it.
However Rise of the Silver Surfer, although enjoyable in a braindead kind of way, is just as hollow, dumbed-down, for the masses superhero tosh as it's predecessor.
As before Chiklis and Evans make a watchable sparring couple while Gruffold is weak, nerdy and dull while Alba (sex bomb she may be), comes across as an unlikable pissy bitch with an unflattering blond atrocity on her bonce. Julian McMahon continues his tragic performance as the least menacing baddie in cinema of the last quarter century.
Any film that features a naked Jessica Alba as an invisible woman must be doing something seriously wrong. To do it again in the sequel is unforgivable.
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I haven't seen this since the cinema. I remember quite enjoying it at the time (like the first one) but still finding it lightweight and fairly well 'Foxed Up.' And I can't remember anything at all of what actually happens in it - except that Doug Jones is the CGI Surfer dude. Oh Fox, you purveyor of quality cinema you (Avatar not included in sarcasm.)
I watched this again recently as got a cheap copy on Blu. Needless to say it went straight on sale again after watching. I thinks it's worse than the first one.
Nick: Actually, dougjones played most of it live action in a suit. Like Iron Man, they just CGI'd the suit gaps and face.
Sickboy: I prefer this to the first one. But that's like saying which brussell sprout I prefer.
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