Yeah we knew FF2 was going to get made but Jessica Alba’s interview with MTV makes the sequel sound even worse than the original. “We’re going to amp up the action, amp up the love interest, amp it all up!” About her own character Sue Storm Alba added, “I’m the most powerful of the four…I can kind of do everyone else’s powers.” Scared yet? Well then how ‘bout what she has say dealing with the plot of the new film which will involve the introduction of my favorite Marvel hero – the Silver Surfer.
The Surfer, created by Jack Kirby, was one of Marvel’s first attempts to add depth and philosophy to comic books in the form of a contemplative, noble, tragic, and poetic hero that Stan Lee fell so in love with for years he would allow no other Marvel writer to create his high minded dialogue which often included the Surfer’s distaste for what humans were doing to their planet and themselves. So how does the movie version stand-up? “There’s a little tension between the Silver Surfer and Reed, he’s a little good and a little bad so it’s just a matter of what does Sue Storm bring – the good or the bad – out of that boy.” Seriously, if Marvel lets a half-wit like Tim Story destroy one of Lee and Kirby’s greatest creations to make a buck at the box office I’m done with the House of Ideas Greed for good.
FF2: Still Craptastic
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