Egypt is Not a Desert with 2 Men and a Camel !

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2008)

On the upside, the CGI wasn't too much. The editing wasn't hysterical like a lot of the American action movies recently. There are some dexterous moments like the attack at the wedding. (Laurence Fishburne) as the Surfer's voice was more charismatic and deep than the whole performances here. I loved giving the creator (Stan Lee) a cameo as a rejected wedding guest; it could be bitter self-irony as the writer is always deprived of being in the shooting location in Hollywood. It was better than seeing him in idiot cameos in Spider-man movies, where he always stands under a fallen balcony to rescue a kid! The best of it was its brilliant idea to see a matter of exchanging superpowers, and the marvelous sound effects which you wouldn't experience unless in a theater.
But, on the downside, the action is lesser, (Jessica Alba) is unbearable as usual, and with yellow hair; she's even mega-unbearable, though she was sensitive enough to serve the uneasiness of her character. Putting in mind that the Silver Surfer can cut off any kind of industrial energy, so how come that all the cars in the street didn't stop while his flying over them after destroying the wedding?! There is a big mistake in terms of the climax, since it's too short, too deficient, and handled by only one person, not the whole team, which weakens what's supposed to be the movie's most important sequence, as well as lessened the total effect of the fun.
Now the bigger mistake that poisoned the fun itself was that brief scene where (Chris Evans) is thrown faraway by the Silver Surfer to Egypt, like it's the end of the world already! I feel sick out of watching a lot of movies that deal with Egypt through one constant foolish look; where it is nothing but a primed, a desert, and 2 men with a camel! It's more like seeing America as a Red Indian, and a cowboy who's shooting him in the back! I was in the theater in Cairo, and once this scene took place, we all were in silence, rising eyebrows, then whispering sarcastically something like: Yeah, Hollywood.. it's typical!
This is a sequel that didn't outclass its original. Director (Tim Story) managed to make it fine, but the script determined on being just another B-grade B-movie.
All in all, not a bad movie, but really bad look!