As the inaugural movie on my new Playstation 3, I could have chosen Close Encounters of the Third Kind (the only movie I really wanted on Blu-Ray), or Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, or even Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. But no, instead, I had to watch Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, one of the worst sequels to one of the worst superhero movies ever made.

Rise of the Silver Surfer manages to make the first Fantastic Four movie look good, a fantastic feat in itself. The plot is simple: the Silver Surfer comes to Earth to prepare it for eventual destruction by Galactus. Meanwhile, Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) and Sue Storm (Invisible Woman) are trying to get married. Hilarity ensues.

Okay, let’s quickly run down the things the movie gets right:

• Johnny and Ben are fun for the scant time they get together.
• The special effects are good, mostly.

And now, the bad stuff:

• Jessica Alba looks like someone scooped her brains out. Half the time, they put her in glasses, so that we think she’s smart. And she’s peroxided to the point of distraction.
• Galactus is a cloud. Really. And his big plan appears to be to have the Silver Surfer dig potholes all over the Earth.
• One of the big set pieces is saving a ferris wheel.
• No Ultimate Nullifier
• The special effects for Mr. Fantastic were, indeed, special. In the bad way.

There’s just so much bad in this movie. The comedy falls flat, the action is perfunctory, and the acting is mediocre. Avoid this.

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