A vast improvement on the original but still not to the level of other comic book films

Rating: 6/10 (18 August 2014)

After watching the garbage that is the first Fantastic Four I have no idea why I watched this film but I must say I was a little bit pleasantly surprised as this film is much better and above average to watch it was decent. This film starts with Reed Richards and Sue Storm attempting to get married when a herald called the Silver Surfer comes to Earth to prepare its destruction. With the help of Victor Von Doom the Fantastic Four attempt to find a way to stop the Silver Surfer and his master the eater of worlds Galactus. Now one of my big gripes with the first film was the performances of Mr Fantastic and The Invisible Woman aka Reed and Sue but I must say they were improved a lot in this film. The guy who plays Reed who's name escapes me takes more charge in this film and starts to become more of a leader that he should be. Jessica Alba once again looks beautiful but her acting really does improve and she does a fine job getting across her feelings well in this film. Now just like the first film I thought Chris Evans did a good job as Johnny Storm and he had great lines with a funny attitude. The Thing was once again done well with some good comedic timing and some great chemistry with Johnny. They also made up for the terrible Dr Doom we got in the first film with a decent Doom in this film McMahon was evil, cunning and his ambitions were clear unlike the first film really. But the best character in my opinion is that of The Silver Surfer himself Laurence Fishburne does a superb job with the voice work as he sounds chilling and evil when he needs to be and sympathetic when he needs to be. The Surfer is one of the best things in this movie in every way I just wish we could have got a little more of him. The story like the first one isn't a strong one, it is so cliché with its narrative and doesn't really add anything to the plot that would be surprising to anybody. I must say the script was better then the first with some witty humour and heartfelt moments, plus the Surfers great lines. But some of it does fall flat and some of the dialogue we could have just done without. The style of the film was good The Surfer looked great, Doom looked great and the Fantastic Four looked great plus the locations were great. But I only give this a good mark not great because as a fan of the character of Galactus I was massively disappointed what they did with him and I am sure others are too. So overall this is an improvement but it isn't a film you need to rush out and see. It'll be decent but nothing like Iron Man or Thor levels of quality.