{"id":12603,"date":"2025-07-22T22:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=12603"},"modified":"2025-07-22T22:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:44:35","slug":"fantastic-four-rise-of-the-silver-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/07\/22\/fantastic-four-rise-of-the-silver-surfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer<\/strong> (2007)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20th<\/sup> Century Fox\/Sci-Fi-Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 92 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG (sequences of action violence, mild language, innuendo)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Tim Story\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Don Payne and Mark Frost\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John Ottman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Larry Blanford\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 15, 2007 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington, Doug Jones, Laurence Fishburne, Andre Braugher, Beau Garrett, Vanessa Minnillo, Brian Posehn, Kevin McNulty.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $131.9M (US)\/$289M (World)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0I always assumed the Silver Surfer was a superhero until I saw Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer<\/strong>, the sequel to the 2005 origin movie about the superpowered family unit. Actually, the Silver Surfer (played by Jones, voiced by Fishburne) serves a massive cloud-like cosmic entity called Galactus, a destroyer of worlds. It feeds on planets to survive. Its latest target is\u2026. you guessed it, Earth!<\/p>\n

\u00a0Pretty awesome concept, right? Ideal for a big budget movie based on a popular comic book, wouldn\u2019t you say? So why does Rise of the Silver Surfer<\/strong> feel so small? At a scant 92 minutes, it almost feels like the bottom half of a double bill. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I like it. The storyline is more substantial, more awesome this time around. Yet it still fits in the same B-level category as Daredevil and Ghost Rider. It doesn\u2019t really matter though because it\u2019s just as much fun as its predecessor.<\/p>\n

\u00a0We catch up with the gang as Dr. Reed Richards\/Mr. Fantastic (Gruffudd) is preparing to marry Sue Storm\/The Invisible Girl (Alba). It\u2019s the umpteenth attempt at a wedding because their work keeps getting in the way. Reed promises that this won\u2019t be the case this time, even refusing a request from Army General Hager (Braugher, City of Angels) to build a machine that will track the movements of a mysterious silver object in our atmosphere, one that\u2019s causing all sorts of freak occurrences around the world (e.g. power outages, seas freezing over and huge unexplained craters). Of course, he ends up building the machine anyway. Of course, the wedding is interrupted once again.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s the Silver Surfer! Who else could it be? Johnny\/Human Torch (Evans) flies after him and tries to stop him only to have his DNA\u2019s molecular structure affected by the encounter. He\u2019s now able to switch powers with his teammates through touch. The Silver Surfer isn\u2019t their only problem. It seems that the cosmic energy he radiates has revived their archnemesis Dr. Doom (McMahon). Basically, the safety of the entire planet rests in their hands.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As with any family, tensions arise. This time it\u2019s because Johnny overhears Reed and Sue talking about abandoning their superhero duties in an attempt to live a more normal life. It doesn\u2019t set too well with Ben Grimm\/The Thing (Chiklis) either. Things get worse when Johnny nearly causes a catastrophe while they do battle with the Silver Surfer in London.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The tone of Rise of the Silver Surface<\/strong> is decidedly light with funny scenes like Reed busting out his elastic moves in a club at his bachelor party. Johnny and Ben still needle each other. The main cast seems to having fun and there\u2019s no reason why the audience shouldn\u2019t too. The storyline is a bit stronger. The special effects are very good. The sight of the Silver Surfer flying around on his silver surfboard is pretty cool.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Rise of the Silver Surfer<\/strong> is good silly fun, a live-action comic book. I knew not to ask for too much and as such, enjoyed what it had to offer. I just wish the overall effect was bigger. Like I said, it\u2019s a B-movie, but with A-level possibilities.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20th Century Fox\/Sci-Fi-Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 92 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG (sequences of action violence, mild language, innuendo)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Tim Story\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Don Payne and Mark Frost\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John Ottman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Larry Blanford\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 15, 2007 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-adventure","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Fantastic-Four-2-2007-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12616,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603\/revisions\/12616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}