Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer [Blu-ray]

Director: Tim Story Tim Story

Overview

Everyone's favorite heroic foursome is back, but this time they're not the only super-powered beings on the block in director Tim Story's action-packed sequel to the 2005 hit Fantastic Four. The Silver Surfer has arrived on Earth to carry out his mission of destruction. When the havoc wrecked by the strange and shiny visitor catches the attention of four especially powerful Earth dwellers, the battle is on to save the planet from certain annihilation. Complicating matters, the group members suddenly begin exchanging superpowers after coming into contact with the mysterious surfer. Meanwhile, with his super-powered nemeses momentarily distracted, the nefarious Dr. Doom begins concocting a plan with the potential to overshadow even the Silver Surfer's destructive antics.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/08/2016
UPC:	0024543268130
Original Release:	2007
Rating:	PG
Source:	20Th Century Fox
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	1:32:00

Special Features

Commentary by director Tim Story; Commentary by producer Avi Arad, co-writer Don Payne, and film editors Peter Elliot and William Hoy; Extended & deleted scenes with optional commentary by director Tim Story; Family Bonds - the making of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer; The Fantasticar: state of the art; The power cosmic; Sentinel of the spaceways: comic book origins of the Silver Surfer; Scoring the fantastic; Character design with spectral motion; Still galleries!

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Ioan Gruffudd	Reed Richards
Jessica Alba	Sue Storm
Chris Evans	Johnny Storm
Michael Chiklis	Ben Grimm
Julian McMahon	Victor Von Doom
Kerry Washington	Alicia Masters
Andre Braugher	General Hager
Doug Jones	Silver Surfer,Voices
Beau Garrett	Captain Raye
Brian Posehn	Wedding Minister
Zach Grenier	Rafke Sherman
Dawn Chubai	Anchorwoman
Chris Gailus	Anchorman
Kevin McNulty	Baxter Building Doorman
Andy Stahl	Actor
Debbie Timuss	Hot Party Girl #1
Moneca Delain	Hot Party Girl #2
Crystal Lowe	Hot Party Girl #3
Chris Calleri	Club DJ
Kenneth Welsh	Dr. Jeff Wagner
Ben Ayers	Guard #1
Vanessa Lachey	Actor
Alicia Thorgrimsson	New York Pedestrian
Valerie Tian	New York Teen Girl #1
Jeanna Haddow	New York Teen Girl #2
Ali Costigan	New York Teen Girl #3
Patricia Harras	Fan Four Receptionist
Gonzalo Menendez	Lieutenant
Suzanne Ristic	Airline Woman
Giuliana DePandi	Actor
Malcolm Boddington	Actor,Pub Owner
Cole Landels	Gift Shop Kid
Cameron Cleary	Flower Girl
Stan Lee	Rejected Wedding Guest,Voices
Silver Butler	Wedding Planner
Michasha Armstrong	Wedding Security
Hitoshi Ikezaki	Japanese Fisherman
Peter Kawasaki	Japanese Fisherman
Fareed Abdelhak	Egyptian Tour Guide
Laurence Fishburne	Silver Surfer
Ioan Gruffud	Actor
Toshiya Agata	Voices
Robin Downes	Voices
Kerry M. Gutierrez	Voices
Akira Kaneda	Voices
Luisa Leschin	Voices
Joey Naber	Voices
Jen Outerbridge	Voices
Claudette Wells	Voices
Steve Apostolina	Voices
Karen Huie	Voices
Jim Lau	Voices
Lucy Lin	Voices
Kazumi Nakamura	Voices,Voices
Paul Pape	Voices
Alan Shearman	Voices
Pepper Sweeney	Voices
Ron Yuan	Voices
Yoshio Be	Voices
Carlon Jeffrey	Voices
Peter Lavin	Voices
Lydia Look	Voices
Moira Quirk	Voices
Dennis Singletary	Voices
Shane Sweet	Voices
Lyannanne Zager	Voices
Edita Brychta	Voices
Jean Gilpin	Voices
Caitlin McKenna	Voices
Paula Newman	Voices
Michelle Ruff	Voices
Julian Stone	Voices
Paul Tuerpe	Voices
Damon Intrabartolo	Conductor
John Ottman	Composer

Technical Credits

Don Payne

Mark Frost

Tim Story	Director
Avi Arad	Producer
Ralph Winter	Producer
Bernd Eichinger	Producer
Michael Barnathan	Executive Producer
Mark Radcliffe	Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Kevin Feige	Executive Producer
Chris Columbus	Executive Producer
Stan Lee	Executive Producer,Stunts
Don Payne	Screenwriter
Mark Frost	Screenwriter
Mike Elizalde	Special Effects
Mike Vezina	Special Effects
Scott Squires	Special Effects
Dawn Brooks	Special Effects
Eric Saindon	Special Effects
Christian Kaplan	Casting
Glenn Boswell	Stunts
Lee Cleary	Producer
Ross Fanger	Producer
Richard Sharkey	Producer
Kevin Aguirre	Special Effects
Deb Adair	Sound Effects
Scott Aitken	Sound Effects
James Ashwill	Sound Effects
Michael Axinn	Sound Effects
Eric Batut	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Dave Forman	Stunts
Ronald Robinson	Stunts
Mike Crestejo	Stunts
Corry Glass	Stunts,Stunts
Patrick Mark	Stunts
Shawn Stewart	Stunts,Stunts
Cotton Mather	Stunts
Yvette Jackson	Stunts
Simon Burnett	Stunts
Phillip Mitchell	Stunts
Darryl Scheelar	Stunts
Michael Roselli	Stunts
Darryl Quon	Stunts
Marny Eng	Stunts
Leanne Buchanan	Stunts
Chris Atkinson	Stunts
Brett Chan	Stunts,Stunts
Kimberly Chiang	Stunts
Alistair King	Stunts
David Lane	Stunts
John Kuchera	Key Grip
Kevin McCloy	Key Grip
Jim Dunn	Stunts
Dean Bailey	Stunts
Adrian Hein	Stunts
Trevor Jones	Stunts
Jeffrey C. Robinson	Stunts
Robert Hayley	Stunts
Dave Campbell	Stunts
Monique Ganderton	Stunts
Mike Godenir	Stunts
Bill Lawrence	Stunts
Dena Fox	Stunts
James Michalopolous	Stunts
David Hooper	Stunts
Tavish Minielly	Stunts
Mika Tran	Stunts
David Jocox	Stunts
Christopher Johnston	Stunts
Robert Boyle	Stunts
Dan Sea	Stunts
Aua Chon	Stunts
Ken Kirzinger	Stunts
Greg Schlosser	Stunts
Terrance Leigh	Stunts
Gerald Paetz	Stunts
Michael Langlois	Stunts
Dorian Kingi	Stunts
Heath Stevenson	Stunts
Ryan Ennis	Stunts,Stunts
Kit Mallet	Stunts
Caroline Field	Stunts
Mike Dopud	Stunts
Jason Calder	Stunts
Nickolas Baric	Stunts
Angela Uyeda	Stunts
Brian Ho	Stunts
Claude Bouchard	Stunts
Colby Chartrand	Stunts
Chad Sayn	Stunts
Trevor Addie	Stunts
Joe Doserro	Stunts
Monte Thompson	Stunts
Coreen Mayrs	Casting
Ron James	Stunts
John Wardlow	Stunts
Garvin Cross	Stunts
Todd Scott	Stunts
Ernest Jackson	Stunts
Becky Bates	Stunts
Taryn Dakha	Stunts
Kathy Hubble	Stunts
Julia Taffe	Stunts
Rorelee Tio	Stunts
Leif Havdale	Stunts
Paul Ruttedge	Stunts
Mark Aisbelt	Stunts
Kim Wienser	Stunts
Giorgio Miyahila	Stunts
James Bamford	Stunts
Guy Bews	Stunts
Lance Gibson	Stunts
Duane Dickinson	Stunts
Brad Loree	Stunts
Brett Armstrong	Stunts
Marshall Virtue	Stunts
Owen Walstrom	Stunts
Rob Hayter	Stunts
Dustin Brooks	Stunts
Ashlea Earl	Stunts
Brian Lydiatt	Stunts
Mitchell Lee Yuen	Stunts
Corbin Fox	Stunts
Andre Jette	Stunts
Heike Brandstatter	Casting
Carole Jackson	Stunts
Peter Cox	Stunts
Melissa Stubbs	Stunts
Jennifer Mylrea	Stunts
Dan Redford	Stunts
Lloyd Bateman	Stunts
Mike Desabrais	Stunts
Jon Kralt	Stunts
Clay Virtue	Stunts
Kim Howey	Stunts
James Ralph	Stunts
Raymond Sammel	Stunts
Kymberly Sheppard	Stunts
Cody Laudan	Stunts
Diane Dutr	Stunts
John Stoneham Jr.	Stunts
Yves Cameron	Stunts
Larry "Warlock" Lam	Stunts
Jim Finkbeiner	Stunts
Lloyd Adams	Stunts
Gavin Buhr	Stunts
Dean Choe	Stunts
Steve McMichaels	Stunts
Justin Sain	Stunts
Jase-Anthony Griffith	Stunts
Sylvestra Stuart	Stunts
Nesta Chapman	Stunts
Crystal Dalman	Stunts
Carolyn Anderson	Stunts
Shawn Beaton	Stunts
Brad Kelly	Stunts
Rick Pearce	Stunts
Chad Bellamy	Stunts
Aaron Au	Stunts
Mike Dobbin	Stunts
Lani Gelera	Stunts
Gaston Morrison	Stunts
Kimberly T. Olsen	Key Grip
Tony Morelli	Stunts
Brent Woolsey	Stunts
David Mylrea	Stunts
Jovan Nenadic	Stunts
Byron Brisco	Stunts
Jeff Sanca	Stunts
John Macdonald	Stunts
Alexander Chiang	Stunts
David Soo	Stunts
Larissa Stadnichuk	Stunts
Mark Boiko	Stunts
Bradley Minielly	Stunts
Dave Hespes	Stunts
Victor Favrin	Stunts
Luke Waidmann	Stunts
Efosa Oywamagf	Stunts
Ian Thompson	Stunts
Greg Orloff	Sound Mixer
Gary Bourgeois	Sound Mixer

Editorial Reviews

The Fantastic Four is back -- returning with the same creative team that delivered the lukewarm first film, though thankfully they got it a bit more right this time, despite the appearance of some of the same hiccups that will continue to plague the series. What the sequel does right is bring with it an air of fun that families and uncritical fans can sit back and enjoy after suffering through far too many mega-serious comic adaptations (Superman Returns) or commercial junk that somehow earned money despite its high reading on the junk meter (Ghost Rider -- you're it). Sometimes tone is everything, and that's really what saves Rise of the Silver Surfer from its obvious blemishes. There's a buoyant air to the flick, made even more amusing since the plot is basically "the end of the world if saved by a dysfunctional superhero unit." New to the series is the title's main character -- The Silver Surfer, who though voiced by Laurence Fishburne, is brought to life with grace by performance actor and frequent Guillermo del Toro collaborator Doug Jones. Just watching this shiny alien being is a big-screen wonder, which, thanks to the seamless FX, makes this a mighty marvel to behold indeed. As far as the story is concerned, the film is thankfully not weighed down by any kind of origin tale, which adds much to the overall product. Sadly, there are just some things that this series cannot live down -- the biggest problem being the casting. Though Ioan Gruffudd fares better this time as the brainy man of rubber Reed Richards (he gets extra points for the ultra-silly dance scene -- not unlike Spider-Man 3's from the same year), as his wife, Jessica Alba is just as invisible as her character's superpowers. Additionally, Julian McMahon continues to weird audiences out with his plucked eyebrows and inability to bring a true menace to the character of Dr. Doom. And the less said about Kerry Washington and her annoying blind-person acting, the better. Rounding out the gang, Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans trump much of the rest of the cast, with Evans once again stealing the spotlight and actually accepting a bit of the dramatic weight that Chiklis hefted in the first film. Of course, questions about the production still persist -- something that comic fans will no doubt be scratching their heads over. As usual, director Tim Story doesn't go all the way with the adaptation, disappointing anyone looking for an actual physical appearance of the planet-eating Galactus. One gets the feeling that by trying to appeal to the smallest audience member and by not going the extra mile with the budget, the film ends up being a bit too accepting of its middle-of-the-roadness -- which can be said about its comedy as well as its action. One thing is for sure, though, a bit of lightness and spectacle can go a long way, and for that, Rise of the Silver Surfer gets a passing grade, even if it comes with a resigned sigh for what the franchise could still be.