I was one of the few people who seemed to genuinely enjoy the first Fantastic Four movie. I found it to be fluff, yes, but enjoyable fluff nonetheless. However, in the sequel just about everything that was fun about the first one is either gone here or more annoying here. TO be honest it starts promising enough for my tastes. I mean the Four are celebrities so I chuckled at how the media was covering the wedding between Reed and Sue and I enjoyed Johnny trying to get the group to use suits that were covered in product placement like logos. How very Nascar of him. Sadly that is about the smartest joke of the movie. There are some burp jokes and some bad physical shtick that only children and idiots will laugh about, but that seems to be what the director is hoping for.
Before the wedding though, the Military(?) comes to the Four for help with giant holes being dug into the core of the world. Eventually we meet the Silver Surfer and as magnificent as he is, his entire reveal/first scene was the teaser trailer shown about a year ago, so that initial amazement lasts about 2.5 seconds. Yes, the surfer looks amazing, like a T1000 for the new decade but he doesn't really get to be a bad ass. In fact, that is the problem with this whole movie. Doom is back and we think he is going to get to be a bad ass because he jacks the Surfer's board (the source of his power) and he starts like that as he fries a military guy, but it is short lived because this movie wraps up in a mere 90 minutes. Which is its saving grace and its biggest flaw. Surfer has come to destroy the Earth, but not really. We learn a bit of the back story of Silver Surfer and we find out he is controlled by Galactus.
What is a Galactus exactly? Well, in the comic books he is often a giant purple planet looking thing with horns and he devours planets to stay alive. In this movie he appears briefly as a molten rock looking lava bursting planet thing being followed by a giant rain cloud full of debris from planets, rocks and the cosmos. While many will complain about how Galactus looks but he is one thing about the movie that didn't bother me. See, comics can get away with having a giant purple planet with horns, but on screen that would look ridiculous, so the director switched it up and that is not a problem. The problems are that most of the best "action" was given away by the trailer, the powers of the Four are still played too much for laughs and my biggest issue was that a fight between a board having Dr. Doom and a Johnny Storm who has all of the powers of the Four only lasts about 2 minutes, in that. If that fight had been as bad ass as it could have been, this entire movie could have been saved, in my opinion. Instead it goes to fast and we get a conclusion that has some of the most god awful dialogue ever. Not even Chris Evan's continues amazing portrayal of the cocky, young and hot Johnny Storm can save this franchise from becoming one big pratfall.
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