Hollywood's essence perfectly captured: beautiful, but rather forgettable

Rating: 6/10 (1 July 2007)

I liked the first part of F4: it was slow, it lacked all the big bangs, but the slow introduction gave us time to get familiarized with the characters and eventually care about and relate to them. Only two other superhero movies managed that before: Spiderman (in the first two parts) and Hellboy. The sequel of the F4 adventures followed the same patterns as Spiderman 3. The story was stripped by emotions and any kind of character development, our heroes behave nothing like their comic book characters and honestly, we couldn't care less about what is going to happen with them. How was the Silver Surfer "born". How is he connected to his board? Nothing is answered, although from the few facts about him we can deduce the tragic nature of this hero: he is not evil, but forced in a close bond, a sacrifice he must make. And, in this case, Lawrence Fishburne's calm, deep, sad voice helped a lot, too. Galactus was a complete disappointment. Not frightening at all, his role in the story pointless in the way it is presented. If he appears in the third installment, it will be rather difficult to explain that. As I mentioned before, I liked the first movie. This one though is just another of those movies of when I'm asked about, there is only one thing I can say: nice CGI, let's not talk about the rest.