Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer

I think it's actually been two weeks since I saw this film and I've been avoiding writing about it. Maybe I've been too busy, maybe I haven't felt like writing or maybe I'm a little embarrassed because I actually liked this movie. Maybe all of the above.

This is a dead simple movie that seeks only to entertain. There's really not too much to say. The acting is wooden the effects are pretty good the story is decent and a good time is had by all. You just have to know going in this is by the numbers entertainment, not much more. It's what I would call a good mediocre movie.

Gripes:

I'm really struggling to find something to gripe about. There's a lot that's half assed, and badly executed but the movie definitely is greater than the sum of it's parts, so therefore everything kinda works. It's also been two weeks since I saw this and it's fading away...

What works:


I'm not a comic book fan so I don't know the story of the silver surfer. I didn't know anything about the planet eating or his surfboard or any of it so it was fun to figure out the mystery.
The movie has a good pace. The time between set pieces is brief and seems to serve the overall story so I wasn't really ever bored.
Most importantly the movie seems totally unpretentious about itself. It knows we're watching a pulp movie and it's having fun and so am I.

Was it Better than Dungeons and Dragons:

Yes it was. Better pace, doesn't take itself too seriously, no shitty dragons, doesn't take away the will to live.

Mediocrity Scale:

It's mediocre, but good mediocre.

Food Review:

We ate some kind of chicken balls or something coated in pastry. It tasted exactly like what I would imagine chicken tastes like after going through the teleportation device in David Cronenbergs the Fly before all the bugs are worked out. (pun not intended)

We also ate Pringles EXTREME FLAVOUR DILL PICKLE CHIPS!!. If by extreme they mean really really salty, then they were extreme indeed. Also the picture of the pickles on the box looks like green turds. Not good.