From start to finish this movie is fun. X-Men is about super heroes that are rock hard and completely serious about saving the world, the Fantastic Four are more light hearted, and if I’m honest looking at their super powers that’s the way it should be.
In Rise Of The Silver Surfer we get to meet, well, the Silver Surfer and quite frankly he rocks too. Voiced by Laurence Fishburne, the Silver Surfer really shines as a character.
Galactus on the other hand has become smoke. How this happened I’m not quite sure but that’s the way it is. To be perfectly honest I don’t think the movie suffers any for it. Although the Andys of this world may disagree!
The whole movie rollocks along at a fairly brisk pace, never becoming serious and never digging into character any more than it really needs to. The product placement is a little overwhelming at times and could do with being toned down, but the underlying story is fun. Forget that Ben Grimm is a bit too rubbery looking, just watch cool stuff happen and enjoy an hour and forty minutes of silly fun that lets you switch your brain off.
The bottom line is that this is a popcorn movie, characters like Batman need a little bit of gravity. The difference being that they’ve got a decent human back story that allows for that. The Fantastic Four got zapped by cosmic radiation, yeah, cosmic radiation. Almost as bad as gamma rays.
If you’re at a loose end go and see it. Take a bit of booze with you and it’ll be even more fun!
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