Huge disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (18 January 2008)

Okay, so yeah, I'm a big geek. I absolutely love the character of Galactus so when I heard a movie was coming out about the Silver Surfer I was pumped.
Man, was I let down.
Let me state first that I don't pick apart movies that are adaptations of books or comics. It's not a big deal to me if a movie isn't faithful to every single detail of the original material. But.. come ON. Galactus is such a GREAT character, how could they reduce him to a one-dimensional villain that appears only in the final moments of the film, just to be killed by his own herald? In the comics Galactus isn't a villain, he's considered an essential part of the universe. There's a lot of possibilities with this character; this could have been a really interesting film.
Instead it's a bunch of lame jokes, predictable action sequences, and fair-to-middling CGI effects.
Oh and I must comment on Jessica Alba here. She appears to have about nine pounds of makeup on her face during this film. Please, someone, chisel that crap off her face. Maybe then her face will actually move and she'll come closer to something approximating "acting".
I'll give it three stars because it's not totally incoherent (it's trite and shallow yes, but it's not unwatchable) and one more star because I thought the brief scene with Stan Lee was cute.