"Flame on!!"

Rating: 8/10 (22 February 2008)

This is slightly better then the first.
Doctor Doom returns to help the Fantastic Four in dealing with a new menace named Silver Surfer (who is a hero in the comics) The film is good but not great like many critic have said. It does deliver but the plot is a little one dimensional, the sub-plots are not very entertaining. But the Johnny and Thing's scenes are an upside.
Fantastic Four are not the most amazing characters of the Marvel world and so they suffer in terms of villains and plot. What critics forget is that this is a superhero movie.
The actors do try a little harder to give the characters a little more depth, but Julian Mcmahon is the diamond in the bunch; he oozes evil; while the special effects keep getting better; the final fight is a good scene. And the end is predictable, Dr.Doom's costume is definitely a plus, the Silver Surfer could have been used on another franchise, quite possibly his own, being an entity beyond the reaches of superheroes.
The cloud representing Galactus was pretty impressive and clever, I was expecting a gigantic man who sits on a massive chair.
Overall....just another good superhero movie.