"Silver Surfer and The Avengers Meet Dr. Strangelove"

Rating: 5/10 (24 July 2009)

There's a reason "it took someone twenty years to make this movie" - because it was not necessary to make this film. It's past its time. It didn't need to be made.
It's just an 80's Cold War fear-flick. Go see Wargames, the first Terminator, or any other of the countless nuclear annihilation movies that got made in the 1980's.
If you didn't like this movie, don't blame yourself. It's not because it was three hours long (literature takes time, so don't blame anything for being too long, you're just too impatient); or because there was a blue dong wagging in front of your face every 20 minutes; or because there was a Muppet for the POTUS.
You didn't like this movie because it was two movies, neither of them particularly good, forced to share the same space (how Einsteinien).
Here's the two movies' plots, just to deconstruct for you.
Movie #1) Superhuman, godlike creature gets manipulated and used by supervillian/antihero to enact enormous machination to save/destroy human race. Think "Superman vs. Lex Luthor". There, done.
Movie #2) Unspectacular costumed heroes/crimefighting movie, replete with an assortment of character types. Think "Mystery Men". There, done.
Dr. Manhattan wasn't even a "Watchman", for crying out loud. He and they had absolutely nothing to do with each other, right? Just incidental acquaintances that quickly part company. Silly, really.
Now that this has been pointed out, won't someone please do a fan edit of this movie, like what has been done with the Matrix sequels, or the first two Spidermans, or Star Wars parts 1-3, or any other fan edit that comes to mind? You know, cut out the fluff and the blah, and boil it down to the movie the way it might have been made, lean and sensible and compelling? Or in this film's case, to separate it into the two movie it ought to have been.
I'd like to see the Watchmen in their own movie, sans the "Dr. Strangelove" counter-plot, personally. Someone, please?