Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Released in 2005, the Fantastic Four movie was awful (not as bad as the 2015 remake, we have to say, but awful nonetheless), so it was never going to take much to beat it in terms of a sequel – and it really didn’t take much to beat it.

The 2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer release was terrible in itself, but it was a definite improvement over its poor predecessor. Although Galactus as a cloud was a horrible adaptation of the character, it made for a more convincing threat than Doctor Doom – who, of course, returned for this movie – and the Silver Surfer himself was undoubtedly the best thing about this franchise.

This movie was more action-packed than the first offering, and it just goes to show that a movie doesn’t have to be good to be an improvement on an already awful original (though it was a surprise that they bothered with a sequel here, at all!).

And now, let’s move on to a much darker Marvel movie.