I'll preface this by saying that I'm a comic collector from way back and FF was one of my favorite titles. That being said, of all the comic movies that have come out, I don't really love any of them. Most I just find boring and that is due to the characters being so bland and boring.
This one was truly rough on me. Here's this chance to do something interesting with Dr. Doom, Galactus and the Silver Surfer and it's just not there. Silver Surfer is tough as he is rather wooden to begin with, but I thought there could have been some cool special effects given his abilities. Not just flying upside down and through buses, knocking down a missile, blowing up a few toys. It just bores me. At no point was I wowed. Of course Galactus was much worse, just showing up as a big devouring cloud. A total waste there. Dr. Doom was played decently and was probably the bright spot. Finally someone a little interesting, but they could have done much more with him.
People say they are happy without the dark tone of some other comic book movies, but I think this went overboard with the campiness and the laughs. To each his own I guess.
The dialogue was weak at times as well. Although I felt that the repartee between Storm and Grimm was actually the best part of the movie. Alba is taking a lot of flak and I agree that the blonde blue eyed version is just distracting. She actually looks like a comic book character, but Susan Storm was never that interesting to me to begin with so I'll give her a pass there.
What makes a movie entertaining in my opinion is how good the individual scenes are. This one just has one boring scene after another.
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