With the introduction of cult favorite, Silver Surfer, I was nervous of how 20th Century Fox and Tim Story (director) were going to accomplish this. Not only did they have to make movie that casual fans would enjoy, but they also needed to make sure they didn’t fail to properly present such a revered character for the first time on the big screen. Lest they be persecuted on fanboy blogs everywhere. I have to say that after watching the movie, this fanboy has put down his stone and recognize a good showing.

The movie presented the usual mixture of action, humor and typical cheesiness. Those who are not familiar with the story of the Fantastic Four may not recognize that this is how they were drawn in the comics since Marvel’s Stan Lee and Jack Kirby first introduced them in 1961. Contrary to the formula of most superheroes, the FF didn’t have secret identities or attempt to stay out of the public eye. Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd), Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman (Jessica Alba), Johnny Storm/The Human Torch (Chris Evans) and Ben Grimm/The Thing (Michael Chiklis) not only are faced with the ups and downs of being famous, they are challenged with facing the impending arrival of Galactus, The Planet Devourer. His coming is prepared by The Silver Surfer (voiced by Lawrence Fishburn). To make matters worse, a familiar hero from the first movie is reintroduced to “help” the FF with their situation. Victor VonDoom a.k.a. Dr. Doom is reprised by star of F/X’s Nip/Tuck, Julian McMahon. Overall, the story was fun and enjoyable. However, the bells and whistles of the DVD had something to be desired.

Fox clearly decided to take it easy on the efforts they put forth when preparing the DVD for The Power Cosmic Edition release. The obvious effort to try and make something “special” is almost insulting at the lack of goodies you get.

The second disc was made up with a handful of extras that could have been easily fit on to one disc. Included is the usual minimal amount of deleted scenes with no spectacular presentation other than merely attaching a few dailies (rough shots taken through out production). There is a documentary of how parts of the film were made, nothing that I hadn’t already seen on HBO or online. The worst part was the “Interactive Fantastic Four Car” selection. It was nothing more than concept drawings and flash animation. Combine some stills and the movie trailers (also available online) and you get a completely uninteresting list of “extras”.

Unless you need to have the “Special” version of everything, I would say to not waste the extra money and buy the normal edition of the DVD and enjoy the movie.

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