The sequel to 2005′s Fantastic Four, Rise of the Silver Surfer finds Reed Richards and Susan Storm about to be married. The marriage has been planned and stopped several times at this point (due to Reed’s habit of responding to every crisis that pops up), and they’re determined that won’t happen this time… until the Silver Surfer arrives, heralding the coming of Galactus, Devourer of Worlds. Now, the team has to deal with not only the coming threat of Galactus, but the re-emergence of a threat they thought long gone.

All in all, this is a fun little superhero movie. It’s approximately of the same quality as the first movie, I think. I had a few quibbles here and there (if you hated Peter Parker’s dance scene in Spider-Man 3, you may want to cover your eyes during Reed’s bachelor party), but for the most part they were minor. The biggest complaint I had? Jessica Alba as Sue Storm.

I wouldn’t have cast Alba in the first place. She’s a beautiful woman and all, but she’s just not Sue Storm. Ideally, Sue should be a maternal type, and Alba’s a bit too young for that; they should’ve cast someone closer to Gruffudd’s age. But, that wasn’t my call. Once they’d cast Jessica Alba, though, they should’ve let Jessica Alba play the role. Between the atrocious wig and the even worse fake-blue contact lenses, I was convinced that Sue had been turned into a vampire at some point between the two movies. It was more than a bit distracting.

All in all, it’s a fun movie to waste an hour and a half on. Just don’t expect a masterpiece.