Fantastic Four : Rise of The Silver Surf

Jessica Alba is going on about the many virtues of her new film, "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," opening Friday: "It's fun, it's a family comic book movie, it's a great summer movie, it's a great popcorn movie and it's only 90 minutes long."

In other words, "Rise of the Silver Surfer" is trying not to be a big, bloated bag of tricks, like some of the other sequels this summer. Instead, it picks up where the first "Fantastic Four" left off two years ago, following the trials and tribulations of four (mostly) reluctant superheroes: Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), a supersmart and superelastic scientist; Sue Storm (Alba), Reed's feisty, sometimes invisible fiancée; Johnny Storm (Chris Evans), Sue's ball-of-fire brother, and stony strongman Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis).