Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (22 July 2007)

SPOILER ALERT If you could make a movie about Galactus, the biggest and most powerful villain in Marvel mythos, a being capable of actually consuming planets, What would you do? What sorts of cool shots would you do? Well, I for one would actually HAVE HIM IN THE MOVIE. This is like having the hypothetical concept of King Kong alluded to for 90 minutes rather than actually having a giant monkey grab Fae Wray. It's like making a Godzilla movie shot from the point of view of people in the suburbs of New York reading in the Newspaper about Godzilla.
Suposedly, some studio exec didn't want Galactus in the movie because that would be "silly" as opposed to a guy made of rock or Jessica Alba with blue eyes. I'm sorry; Galactus I believe, but Jessica Alba with blue eyes does NOT make any sense. She just looks weird.
Now, the scene where Johnny Storm and the Thing switch powers, I have trouble believing that Johnny would be that vein or have such little pity for Ben.
Also, I read another review that said "it was nothing but sexist jokes at Jessica Alba's expense" There was one! The other problem with The Thing and Johnny Storm switching powers is, the whole point of the character is that he's the first super-hero who actually hates being a super-hero. That's his character. He doesn't WANT to be The Thing, he wants to be human, that's the tragedy of the character. But if he keep being given the opportunity to become human, especially of he gets there, but changes his mind "for the good of the team", that just seems like bad TV writing.
And Dr. Doom; Why did they heal him? They should've left him ugly. Like he is in the comics. Why did they magically heal him? There's just... there's no reason to do that. Without any make-up or mask, he just looks like he does on Charmed. So? And having him steal the Board, there's two possible purposes for that; either they're making a Silver Doom toy (wouldn't be surprised if there's one on ebay as I type this) or they were trying to replace the fact that they turned the biggest villain ever into a cloud.
And; what are the holes for? the hones sort of make sense in the Silver Surfer cartoon, Galactus has a giant machine with tentacles. But in the movie, Galactus is a cloud, and no explanation is given as to the holes.
However, the Silver Surfer himself was good. I bought him as an alien. The Silver Surfer is about the only thing in the movie that didn't suck.