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Title: SERENITY
Director: Joss Whedon
Year: 2005
Reviewed: October 02, 2005
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Wow!
It's really difficult to review the movie Serenity. Why? Because it's so flippin' brilliant, and I have nothing much of any worth to say beyond that. Or maybe just another… wow!
Serenity gets a high… high FOUR COURSE MEAL review.
So, what sets Serenity apart from the over-rated, over-hyped, schlock that will be hitting, or, already has hit, the movie theatres as we gently glide into (what I hope) will be a relatively smooth last few months of 2005? Well… quite literally everything: story, character development, dialogue, acting, action, direction, editing… you name it! Serenity focuses on the things that matter in any and every movie; the story and the characters. Yah there are explosions and special effects and fight scenes, but these resonate with a certain clarity when you and I, the viewers, realize that we have unwillingly and rather happily married our minds and emotions to these people on screen. You actually care what happens to them, and that is a wonderful thing.
Serenity is the birth child of master writer and manipulator, Joss Whedon. The brilliant man and mind that created Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and the short running television show that spawned the film Serenity, Firefly. He is, bar none, one of the most talented people working in Hollywood today.
Joss Whedon, I salute you. Again, you have outdone yourself.
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