Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer A Movie Review	MPAA Rated - PG It's 1:31 Long A Review by The Dude on the Right

Anyway, "Silver Surfer" brings back our happy foursome of Reed (Ioan Gruffudd), Susan (Jessica Alba), Johnny (Chris Evans), and Ben (Michael Chiklis). Also returning is Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon) who of course isn’t dead. Reed and Susan keep trying to get married, and in tabloid fashion of today, even when insanely bizarre events start happening around the world, their upcoming nuptials are  the most important news story of the day. Those bizarre events, though, are being caused by this crazy energy source, which also makes giant holes in the ground. When Johnny (the Human Torch) chases him down, he tells the others that the energy source looked a silver dude on a surfboard, hence the Silver Surfer. The good thing for the world is that Victor isn’t dead because he may have discovered the Surfer’s secret; the bad thing for the world is that Victor isn’t dead.

So the government, the Fantastic Four, and Victor, seem to find a way to stop surfer dude, but little do they know that surfer dude is just a pawn for Galactus, a planet eating meanie, nor figure that Victor had his own plan for world domination.

And, oh yea, eventually Reed and Susan get married after they save the world, and of course it is left open that both Victor and the Silver Surfer might not be dead.

The odd thing about this episode of "Fantastic Four" is that it actually dropped its movie rating from being PG-13, to being even more kid-friendly, garnering only a PG (although I’m wondering how that was allowed with the murder of both General Hagar (Andre Braugher) and one of the Four. Deaths aside, I suppose it is garnered more for the kids because I really didn’t care for it.

Gosh, I don’t want to bash the film, because it did have some entertainment, but the storyline of Reed and Susan getting married seemed to drag on forever; of course Victor wasn’t dead (although I suppose that was necessary to keep sort of in the spirit of the comic book version with the coming of Galactus and the Surfer), and sure, there was only a week between the Surfer’s arrival and the impending destruction of the world, but world chaos didn’t seem to take place, even with the mayhem happening in London and New York City. And what the hell was up with Jessica Alba as Susan Storm? I mean, I’m a big a Jessica Alba fan as anyone, but something was just bizarre looking about how they had her eyes made up.

As much as the first film didn’t make me a fan of the Fantastic Four, this movie actually had the ability to make me even less of a fan, I think, because it really bowed down to trying to entertain the kids rather than being a smartly written adaptation of the comic book.  If you’ve got boys older than seven and younger than about twelve, they’ll probably love it. If you’ve got girls about the same age, hell, they’ll probably even love it. But you, if you are a comic book fan now living as an adult, I'm guessing you won't be impressed.  I’m sure the movie will do well enough to garner a third installment, but for me, I just don’t care.

As an adult oriented comic book film I give "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" 1 star out of 5. As a comic book film made for the kids, I’d say it’s about 3 ½ stars. Averaging the two together and rounding down because Jessica Alba looked bizarre instead of hot, it’s 2 stars out of 5.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!