| New Fantastic Four 2 Trailer! |
| Wednesday, 02 May 2007 | |
 Are you ready for the best superhero movie of the summer? Are you prepared for some of the best acting you're likely to ever see? Are you looking forward to seeing a well-crafted character driven story that remains true to it's comic book origins? If so, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer probably isn't for you. But, if you're like me and just like to sit back every once in a while and watch an effects-laden suckfest based on the comics you grew up with, than it looks like FF2 should be right up your alley. I have very little hope for this franchise. The original movie may have been interesting from a special effects point of view, but I'm really getting tired of comic book movies fudging the origin stories of it's characters, just to set them in the present day. You mess with the origin, you mess with the character. In the case of Fantastic Four, the first movie really did nothing for me. Sure, it was better than the Roger Corman version, but to be honest it wasn't really that hard. I think the creators of FF2 took the poor reception of the first movie to heart, and have decided to make this movie much more action oriented. That's commendable if it's done right. I doubt that it is. To begin, Jessica Alba looks ridiculous in this. Did they really need to give her those horrible blue contacts? Do they honestly think for one moment that anyone who would go see this movie is staring at her eyes? Here's a hint: They're not. Then, it appears to me that they have merged the whole Skrull war storyline and the Galactus storyline into the same movie. Classic mistake. One of the first things you should learn when trying to create a good comic book movie is that simplicity sells. Stay with one villain, stay with one major plotline. What makes it worse is that instead of having the Skrulls in the movie, it appears like they are writing it off as some kind of cosmic energy herpes that Johnny Storm picks up from the Silver Surfer. Suddenly, Johnny has all their powers. Lame. I would also like to blame/thank the Wachowski Brothers for forever burning Lawrence Fishburne's and Hugo Weaving's voice into my brain. I am since unable to hear them in any project without automatically losing the suspension of disbelief and imagining the character as the actor. The Silver Surfer is Morpheus, just as Megatron is Agent Smith. For instance, in the trailer, when Silver Surfer flies Johnny Storm into the upper atmosphere, thereby choking off the oxygen he needs to stay ignited, I cannot help but mutter to myself in my best Morpheus impression "Do you think that's air you're breathing?" Poor script choices and unfortunate casting aside, I will still probably see this opening weekend. What can I say? I'm a glutton for punishment. I even dust off the old Captain America movie now and then. Anyway, here's the trailer. Enjoy! Comments (0)
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