Maybe I'm a sucker for bad movies

With HBO on Demand working again, I decided to blow some of my afternoon watching Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. The movie got fairly mediocre reviews, even though it performed reasonably well at the box office. While I do think that the movie was hurt by its PG rating - why the directors aimed for the more kid-friendly instead of the PG-13 that the original received is a mystery, given that it constrained the depth of the humor and the story - I still was pretty entertained by the movie. While a lot of superhero movies take themselves quite seriously nowadays - some with great results (The Dark Knight), others not so much (Spider-Man 3) - the FF4 flicks were just fun to watch. It's a damn shame that another film to round out a trilogy doesn't seem to be in the works.