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eumeliaThis review of The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer contains spoilers. Read with caution.
Under a cut for your convenience.
First of all, it was a fun movie, a great summer flick with action, adventure, not-too-bad acting and it was a sequel in which no actor/actress was replaced to play the same character and that is always a good thing.
It was also very predictable, almost at every turn you knew what would happen (though Johnny's Power-Crisis and its consequences were a neat gimick and was actually useful to the plot and not just a funny comic relief thing, like Johnny normally is).
Oh, and the Silver Surfer (voiced by Laurence Fishburne and played by Doug Jones) was the bomb!
There were a few big problems with the movie:
One of these problems was purely cosmetic - Whoever was in charge of Jessica Alba's look should be arrested for something to do with public nuisance! The totally fake eyes and hair (which seem to be worse than the last movie) where they distracted me every time Sue she came on screen.
I suspect it had something to do with the blue eye liner the make up artist must have insisted on, saying: "Let's add some blue, it'll totally bring out the blueness of the contacts"
Boy, did it ever!
Sue from the 2005 movie:
Sue from the 2007 movie:
It's not just me right? Her eyes are way creepier in the sequel and really distracted me from the her actual role, which to my mind improved a hell of a lot from the first one.
Another big problem is that, unlike in the first movie where we see smart-scientist-self sufficient Sue, we see Reed Richard's "Hot" girlfriend-cum-fiance-cum-wife, who is ignored by the macho General Hager - played by Andre Barugher - more about him later.
Sue is constantly being saved, by Reed, by the Silver Surfer and all that. She makes idle threats, 'cause she's not "man enough" to carry them out.
She's sexy, she's hot and best of all she's Reed Richards' fiance which, obviously, makes him cool, because he's the "geek" that now has it all.
Never mind that Sue has several Ph.D's and is actually Reed's partner in practically everything.
Sue, in this movie, is flattened into a damsel in distress or a saintly savior, since she reminds the Silver Surfer of his own wife back from wherever he comes from and in her "death" (sainthood) he decides to save the world.
As I said, predictable and cliched.
Oh and lest we forget the titillating, not to mention humiliating, scene in which her clothes are incinerated and we get a peak of some of Jessica Alba's T&A.
In a word: "Oy".
I said I'd go on about General Hager, who is very disparaging of Sue (since she's merely Reed's fiance) and very disparaging of the whole "Freakish Four" since he's a macho, militant, moron - who in my mind is the real villain of the movie; Doom is a psychopath and Galactus is a fucking death cloud (Dude, that's not what he looks like. He looks like this) so they're not real villains, they're the Big Bads, but they're not the real villain.
And being the macho, militant, moron he considers Sue beneath him and actually seems amused (the only time he smiles without sarcasm in the movie) when he sees Reed enjoying himself in the company of other women during his bachelor party.
Can we say "macho, militant, moronic, sexist asshole"?
Yeah.
Oh, and did I mention that the Silver Surfer was the bomb!
In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.
וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.
Under a cut for your convenience.
First of all, it was a fun movie, a great summer flick with action, adventure, not-too-bad acting and it was a sequel in which no actor/actress was replaced to play the same character and that is always a good thing.
It was also very predictable, almost at every turn you knew what would happen (though Johnny's Power-Crisis and its consequences were a neat gimick and was actually useful to the plot and not just a funny comic relief thing, like Johnny normally is).
Oh, and the Silver Surfer (voiced by Laurence Fishburne and played by Doug Jones) was the bomb!
There were a few big problems with the movie:
One of these problems was purely cosmetic - Whoever was in charge of Jessica Alba's look should be arrested for something to do with public nuisance! The totally fake eyes and hair (which seem to be worse than the last movie) where they distracted me every time Sue she came on screen.
I suspect it had something to do with the blue eye liner the make up artist must have insisted on, saying: "Let's add some blue, it'll totally bring out the blueness of the contacts"
Boy, did it ever!
Sue from the 2005 movie:
Sue from the 2007 movie:
It's not just me right? Her eyes are way creepier in the sequel and really distracted me from the her actual role, which to my mind improved a hell of a lot from the first one.
Another big problem is that, unlike in the first movie where we see smart-scientist-self sufficient Sue, we see Reed Richard's "Hot" girlfriend-cum-fiance-cum-wife, who is ignored by the macho General Hager - played by Andre Barugher - more about him later.
Sue is constantly being saved, by Reed, by the Silver Surfer and all that. She makes idle threats, 'cause she's not "man enough" to carry them out.
She's sexy, she's hot and best of all she's Reed Richards' fiance which, obviously, makes him cool, because he's the "geek" that now has it all.
Never mind that Sue has several Ph.D's and is actually Reed's partner in practically everything.
Sue, in this movie, is flattened into a damsel in distress or a saintly savior, since she reminds the Silver Surfer of his own wife back from wherever he comes from and in her "death" (sainthood) he decides to save the world.
As I said, predictable and cliched.
Oh and lest we forget the titillating, not to mention humiliating, scene in which her clothes are incinerated and we get a peak of some of Jessica Alba's T&A.
In a word: "Oy".
I said I'd go on about General Hager, who is very disparaging of Sue (since she's merely Reed's fiance) and very disparaging of the whole "Freakish Four" since he's a macho, militant, moron - who in my mind is the real villain of the movie; Doom is a psychopath and Galactus is a fucking death cloud (Dude, that's not what he looks like. He looks like this) so they're not real villains, they're the Big Bads, but they're not the real villain.
And being the macho, militant, moron he considers Sue beneath him and actually seems amused (the only time he smiles without sarcasm in the movie) when he sees Reed enjoying himself in the company of other women during his bachelor party.
Can we say "macho, militant, moronic, sexist asshole"?
Yeah.
Oh, and did I mention that the Silver Surfer was the bomb!
In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.
וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.
