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by **MouthForWar** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 2:10 am

I Saw it this morning. I was pleasantly surprised for the most part,. I thought it was MILES above the first movie (which I seriously can't stand). But of course they had to screw up what they had by making Galactus a friggin storm cloud. The whole time I just imagined a giant head come up next to the planet and shrink down to talk to the Surfer only to have the Surfer fight him and fly around in circles around him and what not. A lot of people think Galactus wouldn't work well as a giant, but I think he could be tweaked to be truly amazing... but of course they messed that up. Hell, they were even in Asia during the final battle... it was BEGGING for a giant to come smashing his way through.

I give it a 3/5, while I'd give the first one a 2/5. Its nothing special and its really not a very good movie even, and the acting sucked for the most part, but it was entertaining and the characters were better than the first.

Maybe I came out liking it because I had expected it to be as bad as Ghost Rider, which it wasn't. I can say this though. If I hadn't known about the Galactus thing before I saw the movie, I would have hated it... I just know it. You really can't butcher a character as badly as they butchered Galactus.

And by the way, I thought the Surfer looked great, both as a suit and as motion capture CG.

by **Elliot Gay** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:28 am

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by **MouthForWar** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:19 pm

You mind telling me how he WOULDN'T work? He doesn't HAVE to be purple, his armor doesn't HAVE to be as bulky. Something like this would have been fine:

Hell, he doesn't even have to have the human-ish face... he could easily have a cool mask or something on, make him look more robotic or something. Something like the Marvel Alliance game Galactus, as posted above looks just fine.

by **Xenorama** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:42 am

and, it's well established that Galactus appears to any race (human or otherwise) as looking like something their minds can understand. why our minds understand him as wearing shorts i never quite got, but big deal. i wanna see GALACTUS up there (preferably with Ted Cassidy's voice), not some stupid generic planet eating cloud (hello, already done with V'Ger)!

David

by **Benjamin Haines** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:29 am

I saw it with low expectations (I thought the first film had several funny moments but overall was pretty stupid), and I was very pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it. It wasn't anything special, and from a critical standpoint it was just mediocre and still riddled with flaws, plot holes and inconsistencies. But while I was watching it really didn't bother me like the first film did. There were some aspects that I didn't like (the climax of the whole Galactus thing was terribly contrived, and I still think Ioan Grufford or however you spell his name makes a lame Mr. Fantastic), but as a whole I was thoroughly entertained.

A nice surprise.

by **GodzillaKOTM** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:20 pm

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