I swore I would not see the second fantastic four after the first fantastic abomination, but the silver surfer seemed like a cool character, so I went anyways. I must say, it was better than the first; just like 0 is greater than -10. While surpassing it's horrendous predeccessor, it falls short in almost every other category.
In retrospect, I realize that the movie, despite the attempts to rejuvinate it with the silver surfer, was destined for failure from the beginning. The only avenue for redemption was to completely rid itself of its horrendous past; new villains, new actors (except Jessica Alba), new dialouge and new plotline. While my hopes remained high with the silver surfer, the first thing they do to the plot line is bring back the annoying, snobbish Dr. Doom character from the weathered grave of the first movie!!! Awful!!! But it goes to show...you can't escape your past.
But moving further into the abominable, I suppose I shall disscus the plot line. Reed Richards and Sue Storm (Mr. Fantastic and The Invisible Woman) are trying to get married, yet because of their powers and bad script writing, have become celebrety media pigs, adding another layer of annoying onto a plotline over-saturated with annoyingness. So Jessica Alba wants a wedding, but for some strange inexplicable reason, the poor excuse for Mr. Fantastic spends all his time working on sciencey things, causing the predictable tensions expected in a cliche unification in holy matrimony. But come on!! How can this Reed Richards have the audacity to spend time tinkering with sattelites when he is about to be married to Jessica Alba?! Nonsensical!! Preposterous!! But anyway, he makes the false promise to set aside science to have their Wedding of the gods. The press swarms the wedding, la la la, the two go up to the alter, then El Fantastico gets a message on his PDA iPhone gizmo that tells him the surfer is coming. So he insists on hurrying through the wedding to the predicted dismay of Jessica Alba. Then the surfer comes, and the four do their thingies to save the wedding guests, and El Flame-O chases after surfer boy. They do their tango, and the Flying Fireman falls from grace in one of the better action sequences where he and surfer boy are in the stratosphere, and the enigmatic surfer grasps Flamer by the throat then lets him fall. His contact with the silver surfer inexplicably causes him to switch powers with the other members of the fantastic four. The writers of this movie took advantage of this enigmatic mettallic mystery, as anything they didn't have the creaivity to dream up the just blamed on the prescence of the surfer. But back to the plot.
I decided to make a new paragraph because the last one was getting too long. I'm paying as much detail to syntax as the writers did to dialouge. But anyways, back to the plot. Flame-On touches Inviso-Hotness, and their powers switch. To the delight of the male audience, Jessica Alba burns her clothes off. Sadly, she turns invisible after their powers switch back. After Fantastico daignoses Torchy's condition, Thingy sees the opportunity to exact revenge for Torchy's poking fun at him. The Rocky Rougue touches the hot hot fire, and their powers switch, resulting the comical viewing of Torchy as Rocky. What a predicament they're in!
While this is going on, Dr. Doom is ressurected from his metal entrapment by a random guy with a blow torch who had no reason to free him. This was the first part in the movie where booed. They should have left this fragment of the first movie back where it died. But anyways, Doomy decides to venture to Alaska, or some other glacier, to meet surfer boy. He attempts to make some deal with the surfer, being the snobbish business man he is, but the surfer is above all that. So Doom M.D. chooses to electrify surfer boy, resulting the surfer to retaliate with a blast of energy, sending doomy head over heals but inexplicably cures his ugly face.
So Doomy doom doom waltzes back to wherever the other four losers are and makes a deal with them, and works with them to apprehend the surfer. After the first attempt to stop the surfer, Flying Fire almost screws them up by letting his pride get in the way by going after surfer boy instead of sticking to the plan. That topic has never been explored before, pride and all that...sarcasm aside, Fantastico somehow invents a device that removes surfer boy from his method of trasport, thus removing him from his source of power. There is no reason why it should work, but it does. So, the general originally doesn't want Richards to do his thang after the first fantastic fiasco, but after a self-righteous speech about how he's a scientist, Fantastico persuades him otherwise. Surfer Boy comes and meets the Invisible woman of your dreams, falls under her spell of hotness, and protects her from a barrage of missiles. The plan goes through, and the board is removed.
Doomy then takes the board and reigns havoc with it. The four take the surfer and go after him. Doomy on steroids then throws a pipe through Jessica Alba, who was protecting the surfer. This was the second time I booed in the movie. While the movie just lost the last thing it had going for it, Torchy touches all the fantastic losers and instead of trading, he inexplicably gets all their powers. In another cool action sequence, the super Torchy-Fantastic-Rocky-Inviso-Thing wails upon Doomy, releasing him from the board while the Thing (In human form) climbs atop a crane and wacks doomy into the ocean. What the the writers of the show failed to consider, however, was that since Doom lies in the bottom of the Atlantic, that entire ocean is pumping with electricity, killing all forms of life in it, as well as any little kiddies who want to go for a swim.
But anyways, Surfy gets his board back, then uses some of his power to inviso girl so she can live and make hot little invisible babies that can be stretched like taffy. So Surfer goes up to kill Galactacar, or whatever, whom I have failed to mention up until now in this synopsis. Galactus is the thing that destroys worlds, surfer boy is his herald. For some reason, Torchy decides to follow surfer boy into Galactar, who happens to be a gaint, ominous cloud. There is absolutely no reason for Torchy to be there, As he does nothing. Surfer simply self destructs in a blast of cosmic energy, something that would have been convieneint at the beginning of the movie, so the movie didn't have to happen. But that defeats galactucrarmus, and simeultaneously cures Torchy of his power swapping thing. So the world is saved, Cactus-Galactus is no more, Dr. Doom is swimming with the fishes and also electrifying EVERYTHING in the Atlantic, and Fantastico and Inviso-Hotness Get Married. Yay. If you read through it, this synopsis is probably more entertaining than the actual move. I have the audacity to say that. Just like how my friend has the audacity to sleep through the movie. The end.
Recommended: No
Movie Mood: Die-hard Fans Only
Viewing Method: Studio Screening/Premiere
Film Completeness: Rough cut, missing major effects, music, etc.
Worst Part of this Film: Everything
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