United States, Germany, United Kingdom · 2007
Rated PG · 1h 32m
Director Tim Story
Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis
Genre Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Thriller
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The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.
At a time when tortured superheroes like Spider-Man, Superman and Batman would benefit from some serious psychotherapy, it's almost refreshing to see a comicbook caper as blithe, weightless and cheerfully dumb as Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Earnest, gee-whiz and foursquare, this simple and intentionally inoffensive sequel gets points for being easy to take and scrupulously avoiding obvious sources of irritation.
Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
When will the people who adapt comic books into films realize that less can be so much more?
Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips
It is passable comic book stuff, dumb and loud. Loud. LOUD.
The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen
An improvement of sorts over the lifeless 2005 edition.
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
As summer franchise superhero flicks go, it's tolerable.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
The perfect summer movie, that is if you're eight years old or under. For the rest of us, the sequel to the first "Fantastic Four" that miraculously amassed more than $150 million in 2005, is a plotless, brainless, witless bore.
The script, credited to "Twin Peaks" co-creator Mark Frost and longtime "Simpsons" writer Don Payne, unsuccessfully strives for hipster irreverence.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
Diverting, at times even visually impressive, but has neither the spirit or style of "Spider-Man" nor the ambition of "X-Men."
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
Surely the dullest of Hollywood's many comic-book-derived summer movies, "Silver Surfer" is drearier than corn dying in the Iowa sun, slower than molasses in Antarctica.
In the film based on the hit television series, Homer must save the world from a catastrophe he himself created.
First they took his daughter. Now they're coming for him.