In Rise of the Silver Surfer, Grimm is mostly now a joke machine, taking pictures with smiling kids and leaning into his public persona. While goofy, these scenes retain the fun banter between the characters that was central to Jack Kirby’s original books.Ĭhiklis was put in an unfortunate position in the first film his attempts to explore the reality of Grimm’s body’s distortion were done so in earnest, but Chicklis was weighed down by the terrible makeup and forced altercations with Reed Richards ( Ioan Gruffudd) and Sue Storm ( Jessica Alba). Johnny takes center stage in the early action encounters with the Silver Surfer, which temporarily grants him the ability to transfer his powers. Rise of the Silver Surfer benefits from giving both characters beefed-up roles. Evans was simply having a blast chewing the scenery as a literal hothead, and Chicklis brought a surprising sensitivity to The Thing despite the ridiculous makeup. RELATED: Mads Mikkelsen Once Auditioned for 'Fantastic Four' and It Sounds IncredibleĮven the most venomous critics of the first film tended to agree that Chris Evans’s Johnny Storm and Michael Chicklis’s Ben Grimm had elevated the material. While certainly not the definitive depiction of the beloved characters, Rise of the Silver Surfer is a legitimate case where the filmmaker and studio attempted to rectify their past mistakes. The story was tighter, the characters that worked were given more pivotal roles, and the gleeful comic idiocy was a vast improvement over the dull love story that dominated the first film. Although the reception was nearly identical, Rise of the Silver Surfer made many improvements upon its predecessor. The 2007 sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer debuted to disappointing box office returns and critical reception halted plans for a third installment and Silver Surfer spin-off. Doom ( Julian McMahon) is dispatched in a matter of minutes.
Worst of all, Fantastic Four was painfully dull most of the 106 minutes are spent explaining how each of the heroes’ powers work through awkward comedy beats, only uniting them for an underwhelming final set piece where the comically silly Dr. Marvel’s pro-science team of heroes trotted through a melodramatic rom-com that focused more on celebrity culture than it did action, intrigue, or science fiction.
The Fantastic Four film that finally did hit theaters in 2005 from director Tim Story was a massive disappointment, and distinctly out of touch compared to the recent advances in Marvel adaptations with Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films and Bryan Singer’s X-Men saga.
Such eclectic names as Christopher Coloumbus, Peyton Reed, and Sean Astin were all in talks at one point or another. After 20th Century Fox finally managed to snag the rights to the next adaptation, the reboot went through a chaotic development process. The infamous low-budget Roger Corman film from 1994 was produced purely to ensure that Constantin Film could retain the rights, and was never officially released the film has only ever been available through bootleg distributors. Marvel’s “First Family” has never received a cinematic adaptation worthy of the characters’ storied history on the pages.
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