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USATODAY.com - 'Serenity' has moments, not much else
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2005-09-29-serenity_x.htm

By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY

Though diehard fans probably will take issue, Serenity is mostly sci-fi silliness attempting to be something more substantive.

It is based on the short-lived Fox TV show Firefly, which attracted a cult following, and writer/director Joss Whedon squeezes out a few clever moments. But the characters are generally uninteresting and one-dimensional, and the futuristic Western-style plot grows tedious.

The story takes place 500 years in the future, when Earth has been destroyed by a war and the solar system taken over by a fascist alliance. A group of scruffy-but-hot rebels aboard the spaceship Serenity takes on the legions of evil fascists.

The frontier is planetary space. Much of the conflict centers on a psychic prodigy (Summer Glau) whom the bad guys want to exploit and the good guys have mixed feelings about because she's often more trouble than she's worth. As one member of the Serenity crew puts it, she's "a mite unpredictable." But she can kick butt like nobody's business.

The dialogue, delivered mostly in Southern accents, is intended to be funny and fresh, but much of this Western-influenced sci-fi adventure story feels reheated. And lines like "I aim to misbehave" or "I missed you something fierce" just sound grating and forced.

There is the occasional laugh when the drawl disappears and a contemporary sensibility takes hold. Someone tells a cohort knowingly: "It's not your way." And the person asks, "I have a way?"

Still, when films based on successful and beloved TV series have fallen flat over the years (like The Avengers or Twin Peaks) isn't it asking for trouble to make a movie version of a TV flop?

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Originally posted by baptismo:
What I hate is they say the TV show was a flop while obviously without any knowledge of the history of firefliy and hoe Fox farked it up their own selves.

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Originally posted by Quasarwinds:
I'm just trying to figure out how to get the message out to the guys that aren't you, that don't know any of you, and that don't run into someone who saw the film.

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