Short, sweet, fun and more dazzling.

Rating: 9/10 (25 February 2008)

"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" is the sequel to the 2005 box-office hit where not only are all four heroes back in town, but they get their first PG rating in comic book history.
Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffard), Susan Storm/Invincible Woman (Jessica Alba), Ben Grimm/The Thing (Michael Chiklis), and Johnny Storm/The Human Torch (Chris Evans) are back where after saving the world from Dr. Doom (Julian McMahon) in the original movie, the quartet heroes have became international superstars where fans young and old take an admire in them. After going home, things are not really back to normal as plans change for Reed and Susan's wedding when an enemy known as The Silver Surfer has plans of ridding planet earth once and for all unless the famous four members do something about it.
While many comic book movies from the Spider-Man trilogy, the Blade series, The X-Men trilogy and others have been over 100 minutes long, somehow this sequel manages to be under ninety minutes while never disappointing fans of the movie and the comic series. There's laughs, thrills, tears and cheers in every direction where there's nothing wrong with this picture at all. I don't know why the critics dissed this film since most of them probably never read a comic book.