Should excite many nerds and kids.

Rating: Null/10 (15 September 2007)

So basically Reed is like the Dad in "The Brady Bunch", wholesome and cheerful, while Ben is... the Hulk? (I hope this doesn't upset the comic-book geeks.) A fairly entertaining film; nice visually, not dull, and with two stunners in Jessica Alba and Beau Garrett. (As opposed to two dogs like Aniston and Diaz.) It's just comic-book nonsense so there's no point in nit-picking too much over the logic/plot, but I do want to point out that even a dumb Marvel comic-book (sorry... "graphic novel") cannot or should not have an army general as dumb as this one, and a villain with an even lower I.Q. than the general. The general is played by a black guy, "so whassup with that"? I.e. shouldn't the PC police raise a stink that the only strong black male lead here is dumb as dirt? As for the villain, why would he not give up the board to save Earth hence himself? Duh.
The reason the Silver Surfer didn't get his own movie isn't because his inter-planetary address keeps changing so he couldn't be reached, but because the film studio (and perhaps Stan Lee, as well) were nervous about whether that character could work on the big screen without being merely laughable. And they have a right to be: in the comic-book the SS is a philosophizing alien destroying billions of creatures/people. And that's why his role here is strictly that of a bland, silent alien. He has perhaps 10-15 lines in the entire movie.
It's amazing that even in a supposedly harmless little comic-book picture like "F4" does Tinseltown's decadent Leftist elite have to throw in little political/social commentary - quite "well disguised" - of course - and "totally unobtrusive". Examples?
Example 1: "We are now officially the enemy of the United States." A nod to the Iraq War, i.e. anti-war Hollywood whine-bitching. Translation: "An enemy of the States are probably the good guys."
Example 2: "Who says you need to be normal to have a family?" A friendly little pink wink to gay rights, i.e. the rights of homosexuals to adopt kids. Unalienable rights, of course: indisputable and unchallengeable rights. After all, Hollywood ALWAYS knows what's best for society, civilization and the universe. Kind of like Galactus.