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(1 - 43) of 43 OFCS Rating: 23% Rotten Page   1   2/5 "Kids will probably have a blast - but pity their parents having to explain afterwards what exactly those American federal agents were doing torturing a gurneyed prisoner in a secret Siberian base."   musicOMH.com   Anton Bitel "'Silver Surfer' features more eye-popping special effects than the first Fantastic 4 movie, but the story comes across like a Saturday morning kiddie cartoon."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker D "The worst part? The door is left wide open for part three."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark D+ "Surfing down the face of a building or opening bottomless holes in the Earth? Yes! Lamenting the loss of his loved one and trading therapy sessions with Sue? No!"   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf "Suddenly the Surfer, erstwhile intergalactic villain, is made into a Guantánamo-like victim. The image gives brief pause, suggesting that distraction by trivial, tabloidy celebrity events allows terrible injustice to prevail. Not to worry though: the Four"   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "The makers of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' have managed to improve their storytelling. But that's like saying that "Ghost Rider" improves when viewed in the IMAX format."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 1/5 "Surfer is just as lousy on every level as its predecessor."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 2.5/4 "While not entirely fantastic, this Four is fun, fast-paced, and family friendly."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 2/4 "...the film essentially offers up more of the same; more bad jokes, more predictable plot twists, and more ill-conceived action sequences."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1/4 "Superficial, unimaginative and inert. The so-called heroes are pompous, one-note caricatures who have the depth of gnats, and are just as irritating."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C+ "It's a vast improvement over 2005's laughably dim-witted superhero tale, though it still lacks any major high-stakes excitement or surprises."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "While the Silver Surfer cushions the blow, this is a sequel I can ultimately throw away..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. D "Compared to the best superhero movies, the best that can be said of this flyweight effort is that it's unpretentious. But then it has a great deal to be unpretentious about."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1.5/4 "For non comic book fans over the age of 13, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is a tedious, incoherent bore. For comic book fans of any age, it is an atrocity."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "They should have called Galactus Twistus instead because he appears as a left-over special effect from Twister . . ."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 4/10 "This sequel is out, overall succumbing to the weaknesses of the first movie, which, once again, relegates it to sitting at the kids' table at the gathering of comic book movies."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 5/10 "Can’t anyone in comic book movies come up with new villains anymore?"   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 3/4 "As the Surfer rises, so too does this franchise."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 2/5 "click for full review"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis " I didn’t care for the first one either."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 1.5/4.0 "Characters to love, story to hate."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3.5/5 "something we haven't seen in comic book movies in recent years - an honest attempt to capture the childhood essence of the fantasy"   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr 2/4 "This follow-up to the much-reviled Fantastic Four is cheerfully stupid, shallow and, frankly, more than a little tedious."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 1.5/4 "The series needs to find its place or just give up."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "[D]umb and tedious and puny and petty and idiotic and wrapped up so tightly in its own acquiescence of its own irrelevance that even the end of all life on Earth can be no big deal... Don't get your spandex in a bunch, dude."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "Rise of the Silver Surfer isn't a huge improvement, and it doesn't even try to reinvent the wheel, but its minor upgrades here and there make a cumulative difference."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "If not exactly meriting the term "fantastic" yet, this second installment is a slight improvement over the first film. Things take off more quickly, Reed Richards is less dour and the villain is the Silver Surfer, cooler and more intruiging. The premise"   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2/4 "As far as minor triumphs go, at least Story's disposable film is shrewd enough to understand, embrace, and then stay true to its iconic comic book source material's lighthearted spirit."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 "Uma experiência consideravelmente melhor do que o original %u2013 o que, na prática, é o mesmo que dizer que é "melhor" ser abocanhado por um leão faminto do que por dois."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2.5/5 "With its goofy-ass combat scenes and sitcom-level dialogue, Rise of the Silver Surfer is aimed squarely at the 12-and-under crowd."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 3.5/5 "With a livelier script and stronger production values, this sequel far outdoes the 2004 original."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "I have read many of the legitimate criticisms of this sequel, and I agree with them, and I do not care."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D "Yeah Johnny, it's got a Hemi. Too bad the rest of your movie is such a broken-down lemon."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C+ "Entertaining enough to earn a passing grade, but it could have been a lot better."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 3.5/5 "Capably blends action, sci-fi and comedy into one colorful concoction."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg C "... (Director Tim) Story can't sustain anything resembling a mood, let alone a sense of gravity."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 3/5 "Everything about this superhero sequel surpasses the original by a long shot."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is 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."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek C "None of these allegedly "fantastic" heroes has any gravitas… Far from inspiring admiration, they don't rise even to the level of thinking, acting and relating like grown-ups."   Christianity Today   Steven D. Greydanus 5/10 "The dialogue is dumb drivel, the acting is atrocious and the bodaciously buff title character looks like a shiny hood ornament."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 4/10 "For a film that's supposed to be playful, it's an awful, tedious drudge."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 0.5/4 "Anything more would be cheating the great wide swaths of gibbering no-brow-bia: the baseball-cap-askew-nation, text-messaging their way through the dead spots."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 2.5/4 "Slightly improved over the original, Rise of the Silver Surfer provides some better-than-average visual effects, but an inconsequential plot."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell  (1 - 43) of 43 OFCS Rating: 23% Rotten Page   1