Oddities

Rating: 6/10 (11 September 2007)

A nice blend of action, effects, and a bit of flirting as in the first movie, and the rest of the Marvel movies. However, there are a couple of oddities in the story which made even me think: How unrealistic is that! - And I'm a pretty mindless guy. I guess some ideas travel better through time than others...
Weak point 1: Here we are, in the middle of our top lock-down facility, we're the army, we've brought in the alien. Let's place it in a room without camera surveillance. That makes sense.
Weak point 2: During the movie we can assess the powers of the Silver Surfer. At the end of the movie, we have a pretty good idea of what he is capable of. So how can the Silver Surfer destroy a planet-eater, come on! The Silver Surfer is not powerful enough for that. Flying up the crack of Galactus wont get you anywhere, little guy. That ending simply doesn't work.
Weak point 3: The combining of the four powers against Victor made great visual effects, but kind of ruined the idea of the Fantastic Four. This is more like Superman.
Weak point 4: In the end, it's not the Fantastic Four who deals with the bad guy, it's somebody else - they only do it indirectly. But worse, it's all a StarTrek-like riddle with a self-contained cliché psychological solution.
Weak point 5: What does Galactus actually look like?
Weak point 6: Richards invents a flying machine. Wow.
Weak point 7: Surfing is a universal pastime.
Weak point 8: Victor doesn't really get to show off with the surfboard. I'm telling you, that guy is not evil, he's just misunderstood.
Weak point 9: How can the Fantastic Four combine their powers at the end? We have only seen them swap powers until that point.
Weak point 10: So Galactus needs thermo and biological energy. What's wrong with the sun's energy? Why destroy earth? Why not just harvest it?