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Why did it flop at the box office?


This movie should have easily surpassed the box office numbers of the first movie and easily should have been in the Top 10 highest grossing movies of 2007 both in America and worldwide.

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I guess the bad reputation of the 2005 movie led to tepid anticipation for it.

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It wasn't a wild box office success, but certainly didn't flop. It made 300M USD on a 130M budget, add to that rental/syndication/streaming income. Also, sequels rarely surpass the numbers of the first movie.

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Cuz they made Galactus into a cosmic cloud. That's it. It wasn't the strongest movie but a solid over the top comic book ending would have carried it across the finish line.

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It wasn't terrible by any means. I remember fans wren't happy with the Galactus cloud, and the fact that the Surfer needed his surfboard for his powers.

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It's an underrated gem. The first movie lost what fan base the FF had though.

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