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'Fantastic Four' movie review: 2 stars

Friday, June 15, 2007

By Michael Phillips


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Two summers ago "Fantastic Four," the franchise that gets even less respect than it deserves, made $330 million and change worldwide when no one was looking, thus making a sequel inevitable. That’s precisely how "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" feels: inevitable.



It is passable comic book stuff, dumb and loud. Loud. LOUD. In the first one, based on the characters hatched by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, scientist Reed Richards turned into Mister Fantastic, a flesh-colored variation on Gumby, with the stretching and the bending. His comrades in fantastic-ness were Sue Storm, able to "go" invisible and create force fields; Johnny Storm, the human torch; and Ben Grimm, a pile of rocks nicknamed The Thing.   For More




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