But despite boasting a big budget and being overloaded with superheroes, 'Silver Surfer' has somehow managed to come across as a refreshing change. There is no angst her. Perhaps most importantly, movie audiences who have probably already sat through a combined six hours of plot twisting summer blockbusters after 'Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End' and 'Spider-Man 3' are able to get their overworked butts in and out of the cinema in 90 minutes flat.
'Rise of the Silver Surfer' is fun: that is pretty much all there is to it. The array of superpowers on show are cool, the superheroes are (almost) all beautiful, and they really don't have much to worry their poor little heads about except saving the world. No Peter Parker crises of confidence here, and certainly no Bruce Wayne-style obsession with revenge.
The closest you'll get is Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans as The Thing and Johnny Storm bickering like teenage brothers, and Jessica Alba's Sue Storm getting slightly miffed at the constant postponement of her nuptials. Not exactly deep stuff, and certainly not hard to watch on any level. It seems the tone of the movie was mirrored on set, with up and coming star Evans describing the actors' time filming as "like a holiday camp".
Even Chiklis, who struggled with his bulky costume on the first film, was delighted with his experience on the second. The time it took him to sartorially bulk up into a super-strength stone man was cut from five hours to just 90 minutes. Continued on Page 2 The public currently appear somewhat jaded with big movie franchises - comic book adaptations in particular.
It could justifiably be argued that 'The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' picked just about the worst moment for its release. But despite boasting a big budget and being overloaded with superheroes, 'Silver Surfer' has somehow managed to come across as a refreshing change.
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