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New elements in the Fantastic Four sequel, the Rise of the Silver Surfer, have the potential to make this one better than the first. The Fantastic Four have always been (in the comics and in the first movie) a second-rate group in terms of Marvel super-heroes. As a relatively wholesome 'family' unit, they never were as popular as the outcast X-Men or the trouble teen Spider Man. In the first movie, they faced their original arch-nemesis Doctor Doom, a conventional power-hungry Lex Luthor type character. Hopefully the introduction of a morally-conflicted Silver Surfer and his world-devouring master Galactus will bring enough turmoil and drama to the plot to make this one much more interesting.

In the comics, the Silver Surfer is a herald of Galactus - basically scoping out planets worth consuming (which he must do to sustain himself). Now, he isn't as bad a guy as he sounds: he originally took the job to save his own planet from destruction by Galactus! Galactus too is a strange character - he isn't 'evil' in the traditional sense, simply amoral and looking for food. In the comics he turns on Galactus, as the movie trailers hint he is likely to do in the film as well.

So, in the end, perhaps this one will be more interesting than the last. Clearly the addition of a wild-card into the Fantastic Four will mix up their internal relationships, and the threat of a world-ending force will drive up the drama. Because both of the new semi-villain characters are conflicted and interesting, with a lot of comic history to draw on, there are also great potentials to mix up the typical black-vs-white moral dichotomy the first film suffered from.

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