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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/30/2008 Run time: 119 minutes Rating: Pg13
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By Roderick Koch (Huntsville AL)
This is my all time favorite TV series, surpassing Babylone 5, the Star Treks, DUNE, and Battlestar Gallactica. If you like a Sci-Fi, Western in space, with excellent character developement and great humor - you'll love this series and Movie. Start with the series and finish with the movie for full understanding of the characters.
A must have!
By B. madrigan
Firefly was one of the best shows on television that was canceled due to the corporate suits that know little about good art. The series and the movie Serenity are a joy to watch, great acting, directing,writing, and producing.
By W. Gardner (U.S.A.)
I really love this movie. If one has not seen the shows I would recommend them.
Aside for my rocoomendation, this film has been sold in many different forms but they are basically all the same.
What I am trying to say is, if you own a copy you got it all. If they want to sell more of this series, they should make new movies, episodes. Never should they just repackage the same product over and over again.
I still love the characters and the story, but am annoyed at buying the same product in a different package!
By Crystal Starr Light (Here)
You can't really review "Serenity" without spending a wee bit of time talking about Firefly - The Complete Series. "Firefly" was, in short, an amazing cancelled TV series. It was a cross between Westerns and Scifi, what I've heard called numerous times "Han Solo in the Old West". You had this cast of characters that was downright superb. Mal was the captain, bitter from losing a war in Serenity Valley and secretly having feelings for Inara, the on-ship Companion who often uses her esteemed status to get the crew out of capers. Zoe is his second-in-command, a fairly emotionless woman who doesn't hesitate following orders. Wash, Zoe's husband, is the pilot, goofy, wise-cracking, and adoring his wife. Jayne thinks about himself and isn't terribly brilliant. Kaylee is the sweet mechanic who wants to be ravaged in bed by the attractive doctor, Simon, who in turned left a life of plenty to rescue his sister, River, from being experimented on. Lastly, we have Shepherd Book, a man of God who is somehow living with these criminals and not abiding in his monastery.
Unfortunately, the producers didn't see the magic of "Firefly" and canceled the series. However, Joss Whedon, the man behind this brainchild, was given the chance to catapult his dream onto the big screen--a big deal for a full-fledged series, much, much bigger for a series canceled before finishing its first season.
The story of "Serenity" is basically tying the loose ends from the TV series. Simon took River away from a lab where they were turning her into a psychic assassin. But now, the Parliament has sent a man known only as the Operative after her, to bring her back. Because River knows secrets...secrets that are about to get the crew of Serenity in very serious trouble.
The first time I watched it, I watched "Serenity" without seeing the TV series first, and, while I still enjoyed it, it was terribly confusing. You spend the better part of half the movie trying to catch up. Then, I purchased "Firefly", watched the entire series, and fell in love. THEN I rewatched "Serenity", and found that it makes much more sense.
To see the entire cast back is a joy. And to finally learn what happened to River, what she knew, was great. But I have quite a few reservations about the movie as a whole.
The characters feel...off. Mal is so grouchy. Where is his wry humor, glinted at in the beginning with the words "This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then - explode"? So much of the time, Mal is a brutal, stiff, angry man...nothing like the man we met in "Firefly". He readily brings along River on a job, when in "Firefly" he would never have done that, not after the strange things she did. And his fights with Simon, how he treated Simon and River...it almost seemed as if none of "Firefly" had happened. Simon and River weren't crew to him in "Serenity"; something that vastly contradicts what he says and does in "Firefly".
Another sad aspect is Inara. Besides obviously not being in much of the movie, when she is there, she is delegated action girl and given a gun. Yes, the stakes are high, but the stakes were high in many of their previous jobs, and never once did she don action girl clothes and tout a gun. She was in the back, helping Simon nurse the wounded or acting as backup or some other such function (as in the "Heart of Gold" episode). I just felt it violated her crucial role on the team.
While the story is absolutely superb, interesting, on the edge of your seat, it disintegrates into a plain 'ol action flick in the last hour. Lots of Star Wars-y space battles, fist fights, shoot-outs...yes, "Firefly" had its fair share of shootouts, but nothing on the scale of "Serenity". I almost felt that they were included, to "show off" the film, to draw as many into the seats, wow them, and get them to come back for more.
There were a few other aspects I didn't like...but to detail them would probably be huge spoilers. Let's just say, not everyone makes it out in the end. And seeing that...makes me very sad indeed (although I understand not everyone can survive).
So, there we have it. The gasping breath of "Firefly", the movie "Serenity". I wish it blew my socks off. Alas, it did not. Don't get me wrong; I don't hate it. It's okay to watch, particularly if you have seen "Firefly". Personally, I just hate seeing the characters I've grown to love in "Firefly" change so drastically. Many people apparently didn't have a problem with it. Maybe I'm just weird. Regardless, I very sadly give a 3 stars. Bring back Firefly...the way it should be!
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By Milton (Boston)
,.... and so they cancel the series? The uncanny judgment of the Hollywood machine to consistently produce poorly delivered products and cancel excellent ones is beyond my comprehension. It makes me want to go find a book -
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