Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | 
 enlarge | Actors: Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
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MPN: 2247077
UPC: 024543470779
EAN: 0024543470779
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 2007
Release Date: October 2, 2007
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Product Description
The enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom, before all hope is lost.
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is another entertaining romp for the Marvel-superhero franchise. Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd), is treading on thin ice when his fiancée, Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman (Jessica Alba), thinks he's more interested in a series of cosmic phenomena occurring around the earth than in the preparations for their upcoming wedding. Sorry, ladies, but Reed is right. The disturbances are caused by a surge of cosmic power from a mysterious being called the Silver Surfer (an all-CGI creation, modeled by Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne), who not only zooms around the skies on his board, but also has enough power to fight the FF, sometimes by turning their own power against them, not only mixing up Sue and Reed, but also Johnny Storm, the Human Torch (Chris Evans), and Ben Grimm, the Thing (Michael Chiklis). But that's not the worst of it. The Surfer is only an opening act, a herald looking for planets that his master, Galactus, can consume for his sustenance. With its initial installment, Fantastic Four established itself as the superhero franchise that didn't take itself too seriously, and that continues here. There are numerous moments of laugh-out-loud humor, and the most angst they suffer is whether Sue and Reed will ever be able to live a normal family life. (That, and whether they'll ever really get married, of course.) If Fantastic Four were a normal superhero franchise, the ending would be a knock-down drag-out war with Galactus, featuring the FF in a colossal battle for the planet Earth and the lives of everyone on it. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer just doesn't do that, and we don't quite get the payoff we expected. Effects are dazzling, but the Surfer looks too metallic, more like a skyriding T-1000 robot. --David Horiuchi Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Extras
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 Fall of, more like it January 14, 2010
Inept Editor (New York, NY)
In the interest of full disclosure, let me state for the record that I hated the first Fantastic Four movie. I had once attributed this possible hatred to my projecting issues in my life the day I saw it (i.e. a nasty breakup) onto the movie and this hated it unfairly. Then when this movie began play on HBO, I decided to give it a second chance. My final conclusion was that I would have rather found my ex, and had her dump me all over again than watch FF again. As this is not a review of that movie, I will not go into my VERY long rant about why exactly it represents to me everything that is wrong with the modern comic book movie, so just trust me when I say that it does.
Having said that, why would I willingly go see the sequel to said load of excrement? There are two reasons. One, I fricken love the Silver Surfer. And two, I'm in Cleveland this week doing comedy, and there's really just nothing else to do. Other movies I have seen in Cleveland include School for Scoundrels, Employee of the Month, and the Benchwarmers.
Is Fantastic Four 2 better than the first one? Yes. But that isn't saying much. I will admit my intense hatred of the first one did cloud my judgement a little. Especially because I was so annoyed at hearing director Tim Story's comments in articles about the original movie being at a disadvantage because it had to focus on being an origin story. Really? 'cause Batman Begins spent well over an hour before Batman even appeared on screen, and still managed to be a really good movie. Spiderman dealt with the origins of Peter Parker with finesse and fun. It's just a lame excuse, in my opinion, and doesn't explain away the true weaknesses of the film.
So here you go Tim, here was a movie that had no character origins to develop, aside from a quick exposition on the Silver Surfer. Why then, is it still kind of dull? I don't know what exactly it is about these two movies but I find myself never ever giving a crap what happens to any of the characters. The action sequences feel thrill-less and empty, and I still feel like Dr. Doom is being given the short end of the villain stick, and frankly, the attempt at making the obviously-of-latin-descent Jessica Alba look like a blonde-haired, blue-eyed WASP of a girl just makes her look creepy. The relationship scenes between Sue and Reed made me wish I could stretch myself down the hall and go watch Ocean's 13 instead. About the only interactions between characters that didn't make me want to slice my own ears off with my movie ticket was the banter between The Thing and Human Torch.
The Human Torch, AKA Johnny Storm, is given a little more of a conscience in this movie, although there never is really a logical reason for it to happen. Apparently it stems from a crush he develops on a character he speaks maybe three sentences to throughout the movie. The love interest exists, I believe, simply because it felt like a love interest should, but it never feels organic or even logical, leading to a payoff with little setup.
The one thing that part 2 does triumph over the original movie with, is it actually makes the team into heroes. In the first movie they never really save anyone but themselves, unless it's someone they put in harms way (I'm looking at you, car accident-causing Thing.) In this movie, a threat is established early on and gives them something to actually fight, even if said fighting never amounts to much more than a glorified chase. But it is still better than spending the entire movie wondering how to get rid of your powers.
And finally there is one trend I would like to see end it's run in these sort of movies, and I will put a SPOILER SPACE here to give you dear readers a chance to avoid even though I will attempt to be vague about it and not name any actual characters.
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I am sick and tired of the fake death scene. Enough already. Stop it. Stop using that cheap attempt at shocking the audience by giving a character a fatal wound only to miraculously revive them only moments later. It's not clever storytelling, it's just cliche crap and it reeks of having no real respect for your audience. To me the shock of seeing characters die has completely faded because I never believe they are dead anymore. It's just bad writing and in this case, totally unnecessary to the action of the moment.
 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer December 31, 2009
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
I thouroughly enjoyed this movie. The whole movie is filled with excitment and humor. The graphics were great. The story line was on the money and no one over acting. This was an overall entertaining movie.
 Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer December 9, 2009
L. N. KEARNEY (Osan, Korea)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The movie was good, but I wish it could have gone more into his rebellion and conflict with Galactus.
DVD came in excellent condition November 11, 2009
John I. Green Jr. (Long Branch, N.J.)
The DVD came on time and was in excellent condition...my wife and I have watched this movie several times with our grand kids. Thank you!
John Green
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