« BRMC in Austin | Main | Rocket Man » The Silver SurferI want to see the new Fantastic Four film (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer), if only because the Silver Surfer was my favorite Marvel character, the tragic, detached herald of worldy doom... so I'm reading reviews this morning. Manohla Dargis in the NY Times refers to the film as an "amalgam of recycled ideas, dead air, dumb quips, casual sexism and pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo." She says it like it's a bad thing – but that's an apt description of any Marvel comic. The One Who Matters, fanman Harry Knowles, loved the film against his own expectation, and writes "...what we have are scenes of the Fantastic Four being… well the Fantastic Four. Entertaining crowds, Reed and Sue are trying to get married, but something is always complicating that process. (I know the feeling) - Johnny wants to throw Reed a bachelor party. It’s appropriately goofy, but dammit… it’s the exact sort of hammy thing that Stan Lee would have done." Now there is a review I can trust! jon posted this at 11:29 AM |
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I just thought I would point out that Manohla Dargis is a woman.
Posted by: McChris | June 18, 2007 7:09 PM
Yow, thanks! I made the correction (and fixed my misspelling, as well). I've also seen the film since I wrote this post, and I pretty much agree with Dargis - yet I had a blast! I must be shallow.
Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky | June 18, 2007 8:19 PM