The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.
Critics largely dismissed Rise of the Silver Surfer as a shallow, effects-driven sequel, though a minority found it a modest step up from the first film. The divide fell between those who saw its breezy, comic-book lightness as harmless fun and those who found its simplicity actively insulting to the superhero genre.
“amalgam of recycled ideas, dead air, dumb quips, casual sexism and pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo”
Manohla Dargis·The New York Times
“so lackluster it makes Spider-Man 3 feel like a masterpiece by comparison”
James Berardinelli·ReelViews.com
“more fun than in the original”
Joe Morgenstern·The Wall Street Journal
“the film is everything you'd expect from a movie that began in the pages of a 1960s comic book – garish, giddy, emotionally simplistic, boldly idiotic and mercifully short”
Kevin Maher·The Times
Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.
Critics largely dismissed Rise of the Silver Surfer as a shallow, effects-driven sequel, though a minority found it a modest step up from the first film. The divide fell between those who saw its breezy, comic-book lightness as harmless fun and those who found its simplicity actively insulting to the superhero genre.
“amalgam of recycled ideas, dead air, dumb quips, casual sexism and pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo”
Manohla Dargis·The New York Times
“so lackluster it makes Spider-Man 3 feel like a masterpiece by comparison”
James Berardinelli·ReelViews.com
“more fun than in the original”
Joe Morgenstern·The Wall Street Journal
“the film is everything you'd expect from a movie that began in the pages of a 1960s comic book – garish, giddy, emotionally simplistic, boldly idiotic and mercifully short”
Kevin Maher·The Times
Science Fiction, Adventure, Action