I have a crush on Doug Jones.

The Movie: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, directed by Tim Story
Recommendation: Broomie
Reason: He's a Chris Evans fan, and a Marvel comics geek.

So, the first Fantastic Four movie is probably best forgotten. In a real case of the sequel kicking the ass of the original, Rise of the Silver Surfer completely wipes the slate free of our sickening memories of Dr. Doom arriving at the final confrontation on a bus, and Ben Mulroney. Wanktastic Marvel geeks are going to hate it, as their precious Galactus is altered from 'retarded looking planet eating robot' to 'amorphous cthonic cloud', as well as loads of other 'inaccuracies'. I'm going to take the perspective of a DC fan and say 'suck it'. I've had to put up with all sorts of jackassery surrounding the Batman franchise-yon Marvel wankers can just deal with the 'assault on canon' the Fantastic Four are undergoing.

But I get off track-spent a little too long discussing that particular bit with Broomie I think. Rise of the Silver Surfer is a really good movie. Nothing that's going to win any awards, but for a comic book movie, it rises to the occasion. It ranks with X2, Batman Begins and X-Men, though doesn't quite reach Spiderman levels of excellence. The effects were stunning (even Galactus, you whiny fanboys), the performances were alright and the story was better than the first one. Altogether, Rise of the Silver Surfer was just all-round a better movie. It was less boring, much tighter, and Doug Jones was in it. We have a silly amount of love for that man.

From the perspective of a comics fan, I liked the movie. It had a good feel to it, it found the balance between the multiple storylines better than the first movie did, and the superpowers were appropriately over-the-top. As a movie, it's good summer fare, and that's all it needed to be.

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