| Overall: | B+ |
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| Violence: | C+ |
| Sexual Content: | B |
| Language: | B |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | A |
| Run Time: | 92 |
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| Video Release: | 02 Oct 2007 |
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To promote this film, Twentieth Century Fox is re-releasing the prequel Fantastic Four to DVD in an Extended Edition. Spiderman 3 also has a strong message about making good choices in difficult circumstances.
Home Video Extra Features
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer splash lands on DVD in a couple of editions. The single disc version features the movie in both widescreen and full screen versions, as well as two audio commentaries (one by director Tim Story, and the other by producer Avi Arad, writer Don Payne and film editors Peter S. Elliot and William Hoy). Audio tracks are available in English (5.1 Dolby Digital), Spanish (Dolby Surround) and French (Dolby Surround), with subtitles in English, Spanish and French.
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer The Power Cosmic Edition is a two-disc release offering all of the above, plus the following bonus materials: extended/deleted scenes (with optional commentary by director Tim Story), Family Bonds (a making-of documentary), Sentinel of the Spaceways (the comic book origins of The Silver Surfer), and featurettes exploring the technical workings of the film (The FantastiCar, The Power Cosmic, Character Design With Spectral Motion and Scoring the Fantastic). Interactive FantastiCar concept images, still galleries and the theatrical trailers are included too.
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer also releases on Blu-ray (dual-layer 50GB disc with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio, and English, French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital sound.) This disc contains all the bonus features as well as the trivia game Saving The World One Question at a Time, the multi-player strategy game Who Dares Defy Galactus? and several high-definition trailers.
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Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
