Doesn't quite live up to the billing, but it improves mightily on the original. And the superhero family can thank its new addition for the upgrade.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
It's miscast, underwritten, muddily shot, and slackly paced, but there's something captivating about its unabashed shittiness.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: 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.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
The early dilemma in "Rise of the Silver Surfer " is this: Save the world or marry Jessica Alba . Your conscience says, "Save the world." But the Maxim reader in you knows better.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
More ambitious than its predecessor. It's also more cluttered and less fleet: The light, pleasingly casual quality of the first picture has evolved into something forced and metallic.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
The closest FF:ROTSS gets to wit is when Johnny convinces a reluctant Reed to attend a bachelor party, after promising the uptight groom-to-be that there won't be any "exotic dancers."Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Scott Brown
The dialogue aims young and low, and sounds translated from comic-book Esperanto.Read Full Review »
This existentially and aesthetically unnecessary sequel to the equally irrelevant if depressingly successful "Fantastic Four."Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: 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.Read Full Review »
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