I never knew Dr. Doom surfed...

This is the Dr. Doom I know. The one I grew up loving and wishing he'd get rid of the Fantastic Four once and for all.

See, it's weird. I think I'm one of 7 people who enjoyed the first Fantastic Four movie for it's corny comic book ham. Nothing wrong with that. It knew not to take itself too seriously and I thought the chemistry between The Thing and the Human Torch was great.

My big complaint about the first one was Dr. Doom. And I'm not a Julian McMahon hater. I actually like him a lot on Nip/Tuck. But that kind of acting doesn't work for the super genius of Dr. Victor Von Doom.

Eh.

So I go and see the new Fantastic Four movie for two reasons. The second reason is that I'm a huge fan of the Silver Surfer and any storyline in the Marvel Universe that deals with the power cosmic and space stuff. I think that's one reason I loved the recent Planet Hulk storyline. Conan mixed with cosmic shit.

Movie kind of drags a bit. Jessica Alba is hot and not as annoying in this one. Ioan Gruffudd was his usual boring self, which is perfect for Reed Richards. But the dancing... I don't want to get too much into that.

Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans as The Thing and Human Torch were great again.

And the body movements of Doug Jones and the voice of Laurence Fishburne as The Silver Surfer fit perfectly. I enjoyed it immensely... only thing I didn't like was that they explained the source of his power cosmic was from the Surfer's board.

Lame.


Two complaints though.

1) Kerry Washington as Alicia Masters. I mean, she has to be the worst actress to play a blind person ever. I mean, the only way she could've been good was if they poked her eyes out.

2) Julian McMahon goes through something I didn't think was possible. Sucking even more. Dr. Doom was suckier than in the first one. A surfing Dr. Doom. With bad one liners. Ugh! Just makes me shake thinking about it. I mean, I laughed my ass off with the whole surfing gimmick. I just didn't think they'd go through with it.

*shudders*

So go see it. Let's make this movie do well so maybe we can see a good Silver Surfer movie. With Thanos as the villain. Makes me all excited thinking about it.


Oh, and Galactus wasn't terrible. I won't say why or why not... but you do see a quick glimpse of his helmet. So the whole cloud thing was played out by spoilers everywhere: not entirely true. Just see it and be the judge.

I'm just a film fanatic.

-James