Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: June 15, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
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Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
18
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
It's almost a surprise that the sequel is actually better - much better - than the original. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
One of the most enjoyable pictures of the season. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
As summer franchise superhero flicks go, it's tolerable. Read full review
67
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
What keeps the Fantastic Four franchise alive is the Human Torch's emotional fire and the Silver Surfer's melancholy ice. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, is . . . well . . . not terrible. In fact, "Rise of the Silver Surfer" is roughly 300 percent less cringe-inducing than its predecessor. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
When will the people who adapt comic books into films realize that less can be so much more? Read full review
63
USA TodayScott Bowles
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
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Like its predecessor, this is a basic bungalow of a flick, where low-maintenance superheroes take their ease and you can pay your (dis)respects painlessly enough. In short, okay to visit, wouldn't want to live there. Read full review
63
PremiereGlenn Kenny
It's a decent comic-book movie that delivers its goods with good humor and a minimum of bloat. Read full review
60
VarietyJustin Chang
At a time when tortured superheroes like Spider-Man, Superman and Batman would benefit from some serious psychotherapy, it's almost refreshing to see a comicbook caper as blithe, weightless and cheerfully dumb as Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Read full review
60
EmpireAngie Errigo
Bigger, better and more polished than the first, with a quite satisfactory ratio of action set-pieces and a lot of juvenile japery squarely aimed at its PG and fanboy audience. Read full review
60
SlateDana Stevens
It's miscast, underwritten, muddily shot, and slackly paced, but there's something captivating about its unabashed shittiness. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
The script, credited to "Twin Peaks" co-creator Mark Frost and longtime "Simpsons" writer Don Payne, unsuccessfully strives for hipster irreverence. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
It is passable comic book stuff, dumb and loud. Loud. LOUD. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
An improvement of sorts over the lifeless 2005 edition. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Diverting, at times even visually impressive, but has neither the spirit or style of "Spider-Man" nor the ambition of "X-Men." Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth 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
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The result is strictly for those who like their comic-book movies short and stupid. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Good fun -- more fun than in the original -- punctuated by some lines of admirable awfulness. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle Smith
The silliest sci-fi movie since "An Inconvenient Truth." Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley 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
50
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
A better-quality sequel, but that wasn't really too difficult. The original was one of the worst movies of 2005, and while "Rise" won't win any awards, it's (mostly) less offensive than its predecessor. Faint praise, but I'll be damned if I go any further than that. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Even within the context of the superhero universe, the Silver Surfer initially makes for -- let's face it -- a somewhat silly-looking creation. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven 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
50
SalonStephanie 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
42
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Purists will balk at a pointless--and boring--revamp of a major villain, but that's the least of the film's worries. Only a few isolated shots of the group striding together as a team make Surfer feel like a Fantastic Four movie. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyScott Brown
The dialogue aims young and low, and sounds translated from comic-book Esperanto. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
A tedious, incoherent bore. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
This existentially and aesthetically unnecessary sequel to the equally irrelevant if depressingly successful "Fantastic Four." Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Relentlessly dull and curiously bombastic. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
This sequel to "Fantastic Four" (2005) drags in the Silver Surfer, who looks like a gigantic hood ornament and, given voice by Laurence Fishburne, has about as much personality. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter 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
20
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Surely the dullest of Hollywood's many comic-book-derived summer movies, "Silver Surfer" is drearier than corn dying in the Iowa sun, slower than molasses in Antarctica. Read full review
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