[Movie] Fantastic Four 2

Originally Posted by LeHah

Im going on memory here...

Noran Radd was the lone survivor of a planet Galactus devoured. Galactus, seeing potential in the man, bestowed upon him the Power Cosmic and gave him the assignment of being the Harbinger Of Galactus. The Surfer would find a planet full of life for Galactus to absorb, but when the Surfer found a kindred spirit in Earthlings, he turned on his maker.

Instead of destroying him, Galactus damned him to Earth. If the Surfer ever left, an impentreable shield of fire and rock would block the Surfer from leaving. (This shield was later removed, allowing the Surfer to leave Earth)

Actually, he struck a deal with Galactus to save his world. The other stuff is accurate though.

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Final FF2 trailer, looks great, I'll definitely be seeing this one in theatres! The Surfer speaks in this one.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=5590

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The most recent Batman film also spent a lot of time on character development, but it didn't negatively affect the plot. That being said, I enjoyed FF. It was a fun comic book romp. It wasn't gripping like Batman, and you didn't empathize with the characters like in Spider-man, but it was just fun. I've watched it a couple of times recently when it was on HBO, and I enjoyed it. That being said, I don't have high hopes for the sequel but if it's more of the same I'll definitely rent it when it comes out.

Marvel has woven some charm into the Spider-man films since the comics always had an air of humor & snappy banter. Ghost Rider was supposed to be serious, Blade was serious, The Hulk was serious... I think perhaps they felt it was time to just have a good fun film without playing up the "heroic angst" angle so much. Fine by me as long as they don't over-do it.

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A clip from the movie:

http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=5726

The movie looks really good, but I'm still not feeling Jessica Alba as Sue Storm. She looks great in the uniform, but.....

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I enjoyed this much better than the first.

What I liked

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-Silver Surfer was excellent. Possibly one of the coolest image I've seen in a superhero movie. While I was disappointed his character was not explored further, I think the focus on him as a threat worked quite well and he was sympathetic.

-Evans and Chilcklis were just as fun in this one as they were in the first one. Johnny's turmoil was fun if shallow and Ben and him going at it is always a joy. Their relationship is the most believable.

-The Stan Lee cameo. Best one ever.

-Johnny getting all four powers as he fought Doom.

-Doom was decently cool this time around.

-Alba was smokin hot and I thought she played Sue decently.

What I didn't like

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-Running time. Too short

-Why are the military trusting someone who wants to kill the F4?

-I would have loved to see a little more feats of strength out of The Thing.

-The whole team didn't seem incredbily sad when Sue was dying. Much more emotion could have been added to this scene. When Johhny was fighting Doom he should have been furious. That was his sister. Instead he was cracking jokes and squeeling "wheee" as he used the stretching power. (Unless that's just in the ad?) It doesn't ring true. (But I admit it didn't occur to me at the time, probably because I knew of course that Sue would be fine.)

Other thoughts

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-Galactus was so-so i wouldn't say "bad" but it wasn't good. I thought the storm cloud thing looked really scary, you're tellling me if you saw that in real life it wouldn't scare the hell outta you? They just better have the real deal in the SS spinoff.

-At the end, when Ben hit Doom with that wrecking ball, and knocked him into the ocean, Doom should have yelled "Curse you Richards!" while flying through the air.

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Just saw this too, and I agree with KCJ506, it was much better than the first. Lots of great comedic moments, which made it quite entertaining/enjoyable. Oh and this had the best Stan Lee cameo ever! Haha, and this movie probably provided the most nudity we'll actually get out of Alba.

Heh, pretty much agree with all of KCJ506's points. But...

Spoiler:

I didn't really like how Galactus was just a storm cloud, even though it looked pretty cool and threatening. However it was a nice touch that they added a little blurred image of his head in the eye of the storm, though I didn't like how he was blown off just like that. There was potential for more!

Also, kinda wish they shown a little more of the SS, he didn't really speak much either.

Overall a enjoyable movie, that I felt was worth the time and money (though, my buddy scored a free movie cause some idiot forgot his ticket at the debit/CC only self-serve machine).

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