RISE

Well I watched Fantastic Four Rise Of The Silver Surfer.

I was disappointed by it. It was my own fault and I should have knew better. I spoiled myself big time. I watched the clips and TV spot before hand and that often causes me to be disappointed by the movies.

The plot was fine. I liked the power switching. But my favorite part from the first one was missing in this movie.

Johnny (John, makes him sound more mature) Storm aka THE HUMAN TORCH!

Now he was there. But not exactly. Now what I mean by that is his personality. Early on in the movie was was perfect and I was loving the movie. Then The Silver Surfer got to him. Now Johnny reacted normally. But he lost his confidence and started to feel down on himself. Thus it was a different version of Johnny. It disappointed me.

The character writing however. It was not only spot on but I truly believe they no other comic book movie has had all the characters written in character better.

Damn sure not that horrid excuse of a trilogy (Currently) they call Spider-Man.

Johnny was his same old self, only ramped up majorly compared to what he is in the comics and cartoons.

Sue was done just fine.

Ben was still fine.

Reed was still his correct boring always thinking science flat card board self.

They all seemed to have equal screen time.

Now the bad things that literally took me out of the movie going experience.

Jessica Alba's look. All you have to do it look at her in this movie and you will know exactly what I mean. Her hair was changed her eyes were fake. She just looked like a badly done Barbie doll. Every time I saw her I was just thinking "What the hell"

Laurence Fishburne voicing the Silver Surfer.

That was some of the worse casting I had seen in a long time. It was way too deep. he simply should have not been the cast. Shame on you Tim Story, now I am starting to wonder if Fantastic Four 3 is going to end up being a BET special.

Now what I mean by that is this.

Director Tim Story is black.

Alicia Masters was white in the comics and now she is black. I'm fine with it.

Laurence Fishburne is black as well and was just horrible casting. Surfer should not have had a deep voice.

But then when Surfer was taken off his board. His color changed. Why it changed I really don't know. But it did. And the color changed to a real black smoky color.

That just bothered me and once again took me out of the story. If he should have changed at all he should have changed back to his human self. he just looked so fake when his color changed and he was separated from his board.

Now I will end this review with something I didn't have a problem with.

Galactus. You get to interpret your own way. I didn't find him to be the cloud. I found him to be in the cloud. If you looked in the firey, brimstone, smokey, cloud you could see a shadow of what looked like the classic outline of Galactus.

All in all. I didn't hate the movie, I didn't dislike it. But I expected a lot more.

Best movie of the year so far...

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