A better film than the original

Rating: 7/10 (30 June 2007)

Entertaining and mindless comic book fantasy isn't perfect but is much improved compared to the original film directed by Tim Story. It's also clear that a substantial amount of footage was cut (it runs less than two hours and was recut for a PG rating). The performances are better in the second film and, although the character of Victor Von Doom isn't given as much screen time as I would have thought, that's not a surprise given that this truly is the Silver Surfer's movie.
Fans of the first film will enjoy this. Although it isn't completely faithful to the series of comics that ran with both Galactus and the Silver Surfer, the writers do manage to stay true to the basic concepts of the original comic book. Having recently seen the "special edition" of "Fantastic Four" that film actually was improved by most of the restored scenes of character development. Likewise, I'm sure that would be the case here as well.
Still, "Fantastic Four" and the Marvel characters here were somewhat better realized with "The Incredibles" where Brad Bird borrowed many of the elements that made "Fantastic Four" and other Marvel comics so popular.