Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

June 15, 2007 Rise of the Silver Surfer is an improvement of sorts over the lifeless 2005 edition. There's actually a semblance of a story this time around and the special effects no longer look like they came out of a cable network's 1990 budget. Sure, the dialogue can still get pretty clunky, nobody bothered to give the four lead characters any personality and hard-hitting action sequences clearly aren't director Tim Story's strong suit, but none of that seemed to matter to the family-heavy crowds that made the original a $155 million hit.

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