A big improvement from the previous.

Rating: 6/10 (11 July 2007)

Overall this film was good, however like the last one it only ran for 1 hour and a half, which was put to fairly good use. However, if it ran for longer, a much stronger film would have resulted.
The characters in this film I felt were better portrayed, for example Reed Richards and Sue Storm's relationship was more creative unlike the previous film. Johnny Storm, played by Chris Evans, had more depth other than just being a cocky jock. Whereas Ben Grimm, The Thing, had much less screen time unlike the other characters as I suppose more emphasis what put on him in the first film.
What made the film was the Silver Surfer, it really took the franchise to the next level. The master of movement "Doug Jones", the voice of Laurence Fishburne and outstanding computer generation resulted in the perfect Silver Surfer. Every moment with this character on the screen made watching the film worthwhile, the only hold back was that not enough was seen of him. Considering the limited amount of screen time they did well to include all what was needed to know about the character. What wrecked the Silver Surfer's presence was the portrayal of Galactus as a cloud, who ever thought that up needs their knee caps broken. How can the Silver Surfer possibly relate to a cloud? Also before Galactus even made his presence known, he was destroyed by the Silver Surfer, if he really cared why did he not just do that in the first place?
The action scenes also showed great improvement such as the helicopter crashing at the wedding, the chase between Johnny Storm and the Silver Surfer and the confrontation between Dr Doom and Johnny Storm. The action scene based in London, however, was far too Americanised, us Brits in that form of a crisis would have at least gave it more drama and the use of the London Eye falling seemed too much of a cliché.
Dr Doom's presence could have also been longer.
The next film should certainly bring back the Silver Surfer and increase the screen time.