Reader Dave “Torso Boy” Reimer sent me this review of the Silver Surfer movie. I guess it contains a minor spoiler, but I doubt it will ruin the movie. Sounds like the movie ruins itself. Take it away Dave!

Jami, I have to say, I wasn’t impressed with the FF movie. And that’s coming from a guy who’s been generally pleased with the Marvel movies so far (save for Electra). I’m not a comics guy, but I “know about” all this stuff and read up about these guys from time to time. I don’t claim to be a comics expert by any degree, so I tend to have an opposite opinion than most fellow geeks when it comes to these movies. But I have to say, I was kind of left with a bad taste in my mouth.

I’ll give the movie ONE thing… and it’s not what you’d expect. It’s about the Surfer. For a good portion of his screen time, he’s off his board and has lost his chrome finish. He’s sort of a matte, dirty metal for a while, and this is actually where he looked best. The animation for the blingy Surfer was dodgy at best, and would fit well in a Pixar movie, but his dull form ROCKED. I mean, it looked like a make-up job for a lot of it. The eyes really set it apart too.

But that’s just a single digital effect and does not redeem a whole movie. The premise for the action was expected, but it certainly could not be crammed into one movie, which it was, and failed at horribly. I felt more scared that the world would actually end while watching Armageddon. Doom rocked his stuff for a while, but even he was kind of a throw-away bit to the movie. It just lacked substance in almost every area. I just refuse to believe that this movie shares the same universe as the Spider-Man and the X-Men movies.

And Stan Lee’s cameo was as STAN LEE. Not some random background character. He named himself as STAN LEE, and not just by name, but by reputation… “But you don’t understand, I’m STAN LEE!!!!” Ballsy or what?

I’m trying to look through an overall bad movie experience here and be unbiased. The guy next to me would not shut up, so I was irritated for most of the movie, but I tried to focus on it as best I could. I thought the first one was a decent one-off (please refer to my initial statement), and while I can easily place this one next to it as a FF movie, it just didn’t make me feel I spent my money well. I would like my money back.

Consider this me saving you money in case someone tries to persuade you to see it.

Oh, I will give it one more thing that actually knocked my socks off. When Galactus is approaching Earth, he passes over Saturn and you see a shadow of the front-most part of him cross over Saturn, and it’s in a rough shape close to the comic-style helmet. It’s just supposed to be a looming space tornado or whatever, so the shadow is just supposed to be random cloudy bits, but it’s a pretty decent easter egg in my book.

Thanks Dave. I wasn’t planning on seeing this anyway as I truly abhorred the first one and you’ve convinced me to stay way the fuck away.

Oh, and for everyone else, feel free to send me any movie review and I’ll post it up. Let me know if you care about me revealing your name or not.

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