If you saw “A Night at the Museum” last weekend, or half the sites on the Web this week, you’ve seen the new teaser for the Fantastic Four sequel movie. And you probably thought two things.
1. They’re making a sequel? Why?
2. That was actually pretty cool.
Unless you’re me, in which case you thought many more things, cuz I do that. My list was more like:
1. They’re making a sequel? Why?
2. Why won’t moviemakers use numbers anymore? “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”. It’s FFII, get over it. Or maybe F42.
3. “Rise”? Rise from where? In the comics the Silver Surfer was a bloke named Norrin Radd who volunteered to work for the planet-eater, Galactus, in exchange for Galactus letting Radd’s home planet keep, you know, existing. Galactus gave him vaguely defined cosmic powers, a job scouting for more planetary takeout, and the chance to mope about sacrifice and existentialism for 40 more years with the occasional superhero smackdown to break the monotony. The only rise he had is… well, why give away the ending of the movie in the title?
4. You know, the Silver Surfer/Galactus plot was one of the hokiest Stan Lee ever whipped on his public. A massive, globe-eating destroyer in ominous short pants, held off by his traitorous servant and Mr. Fantastic wielding the Ultimate Plot Device. And this one will bring in Dr. Doom, just because sequels have to repeat themselves or audiences get confused.
5. So who’s playing Galactus? No names on at IMdB. Maybe he’ll be CGed, although how cool would it be for Stan Lee to finally have a big part in a Marvel movie?
6. With any luck, this movie will be as epic as the first one wasn’t. I liked the characters, after all, and the effects were good. It just never really… clicked. The Fantastic Four takes on the big, the cosmic, the Earth-threatening. Not some guy in a tin suit who’s just throwing cars.
7. You know, the tin suited guy throwing cars still gave the movie version Thing some problems last time. How’s Ben going to handle the silver guy now?
8. Why the heck a surfboard, anyway? Shouldn’t he be more laid back?
9. Wonder if Joe Satriani will do any of the soundtrack.
10. That teaser was actually pretty cool. Maybe I’ll see it anyway.
This is why you shouldn’t sit near me in theaters.
Great I can’t wait until it comes out…
Shows you know nothing of the F4 comic. Also, it looks like you were more intent on being an ass rather than giving a critique of the trailer.
Actually that was more of a critique of the first movie than anything else, and I could go on for pages with more of that. Not sure how that reveals any lack of knowledge of the comic, though. Did I spell “Thing” wrong?