Very good but...

Rating: 8/10 (16 July 2007)

First and foremost my apologies if i make some mistake because i'm french so that being said...
When i went to the theater i had expectations. I expect it to be better then the first which is definitely the case and i expected... something to happen... which definitely happened but, as far as i'm concerned not as it should.
Now don't get me wrong this movie is very entertaining and i strongly recommend it and now let's see my pros and cons:
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Pros : The surfer, He rocks period. He's perfectly transfered from the books to the screen and that was one of the thing i feared, one of the most powerful heroes being badly put to the big screen but it wasn't the case so 2 thumbs up i'm very happy.
The fantastic four, well the development of the characters continue slowly but surely as we now see invisible women and Mr.Fantastic getting married and you know what Ben and Johnny becoming buddies but still taunting each other again 2 thumbs up !! Storyline, when you read the books you find a lot of similarities like surfer "surfing" through the cosmos and finally finding earth, the next planet he will offer to his master "the world devourer" Galactus. Ine the books, like i said things are a bit different but since at the end you are clued that the surfer will be back, so will be Galactus and the Watcher (well i hope he'll be there).
Cons: Galactus. My only disappointment in this movie and the only reason i didn't put a 10. How can such a powerful character can be represented by... Clouds and a shadow of the infamous helmet ??? As far as i'm concerned if you want to keep the suspense, instead of showing him like this at the end of the movie, show instead his Starship arriving in our Galaxy at blaze speed and let us hear him say ,before the ending credit, something that "prepares the table" for the third installment but, being wiped like that ?? OK the Surfer's strong but from whom does he gets his power ? Come on.
Dr.Doom, Well it is more a suggestion... if you planned to not show Galactus then Doom should have go one-on-one of with the surfer now you'll say hey what about the fantastic four ? Well while the surfer's fighting doom, you can see them helping people in the city since Doom did a lot of mess. That's my opinion...
Add let's say 15 minutes for this ? The movie's length would have been around 1h45.
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Overall still a good movie and pllllllllllllllllllease for the third installment... oh well, you know who i want to see :-)
8 out of 10