The following is an in-depth story analysis. If you haven't seen this movie, you might want to before reading this review
Victor von Doom: Let's all go for a spin!
When I reviewed Fantastic Four, I made the argument that that it's basically a superhero sitcom with a big special effects budget. At times, it was very entertaining, but it didn't tell much of a story. There are things that I like about Rise of the Silver Surfer, and as always, I'll do my best to judge this by the merits of the film itself, but that'll be hard with this one because there's a lot of what was changed from the original coming of Galactus story and Silver Surfer's origins are precisely the things that make this story overly simplistic, and lacking in sense. So, let me emphasis now that anything I feel the need to bring up in reference to the source material is something, I think, is a problem because it doesn't work in the story as its presented, not just that it's a problem because it deviates to what came before, i.e. Galactus is a giant cloud.