Awful Mess of a Movie

Rating: 2/10 (23 February 2010)

This film is awful. I hoped it was going to be merely OK, but this is truly dire. Firstly we spend the first 20 minutes only seeing flashes of the surfer with no explanation of who he is where he came from or why. Holes appear all over the planet, eventually Mr Fantastic works out he can predict where these holes are going to be dug which means they can catch him. No one explains why the holes are being dug. Then they catch him. Then the bad guy from the first film goes AWOL with the board while Galactus arrives in a cloud of fuzzy, bad, CGI. Again, Galactus gets a one sentence explanation. When we see it/him, it/he looks like the all-seeing-eye from TLOTR, minus the eye. The world survives, because having trashed countless worlds the surfer discovers people care for each other (no other planet displayed this habit?). The surfer saves us by destroying Galactus, which leads one to wonder why he didn't just do that in the first place saving himself and most of the universe an awful lot of bother.
Films like this should spend more on CGI and less on acting. They should cut to the action and do away with emotion. Go with what works and ditch what doesn't but ROTSS doesn't, and fails.