Pretty poor sequel

Rating: 4/10 (20 June 2007)

The Silver Surfer (Doug Jones with the voice of Laurence Fishburne) is a man all in silver who whizzes around the Earth on a surfboard. He also spreads radiation and causes disasters everywhere he goes. The Fantastic Four (Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis) are hired to do battle with him...but also have to work with their hated enemy Victor von Doom (Julian McMahon). And Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman are trying to get married.
The special effects are OK and Gruffudd and Chiklis are good--but that's about it for the good things about this. Some of the special effects are lousy--Mr. Fantastic's stretching looks so fake and why do his clothes stretch with him? Alba's acting is even worse than usual. Evans again seems to be holding back and not doing what he could as the Human Torch. Kerry Washington appears as Alicia Masters--but she's given no introduction. I don't remember her being in the first movie at all, and why is she black? She's white in the comic books. I'm not racist--it's just that you don't go around changing characters from comic books for no rhyme or reason. McMahon is given next to nothing to do as Doom--and what's with his hair (or lack of)? It looked terrible! The script is awful--it gets boring and there are far too many unexplained events (especially the end).
SPOILERS AHEAD!!!! Galactus is in this--but he's not personified as he is in the comics. Here he's just some huge intergalactic force that consumes planets. It looks dumb and not at all impressive.
The only really good thing I can say about this is it's fairly short--only 92 minutes. Still this is a boring, stupid and confusing movie. Skip it.