It's not nearly nerdy enough.
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02/06/09
Fanboys (2009)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:27
Rotten:58
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: This undercooked, sporadically funny road movie is a sop to Star Wars fanatics, but the uninitiated will find little to enjoy.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: STAR WARS zealots, rejoice, for thy movie is at hand: an odyssey across America with a van full of hardcore science-fiction-loving geeks that drop STAR WARS quotes at the drop of a vintage... [More]
Starring: Sam Huntington, Jay Baruchel, Dan Fogler, Kristen Bell
Director: Kyle Newman
Reviews for Fanboys
Top CriticYawn; real fannish obsession can be much more absurd, and unsettlingly fascinating, than this burlesque ever gets.
02/06/09
For people who hated the prequels or just outgrew their love for Salacious Crumb action figures and Star Wars Holiday Special references, it will probably feel like 90 minutes in the Sarlacc pit.
02/06/09
Even geeks enjoy poking fun at geeks. And they really know how.
02/06/09
The comic Force is with Fanboys, a hilarious and heartwarming film about the wondrous powers of movies that last a lifetime.
02/06/09
If you want to hear characters talk to each other in Star Wars dialogue, I've got a couple of trilogies for you.
02/06/09
The Force isn't with crude story of fandom and friendship.
02/06/09
Fanboys is not groundbreaking, but it doesn't need to be, what it needs to be is a loving tribute to a hopeful time.
02/06/09
The plot device of young men who refuse to mature has never felt more exhausted, maybe because these actors or ones who look like them have already done this shtick in other movies.
02/06/09
Top CriticToo often, "Fanboys" inspires smiles of recognition, rather than guffaws of surprise...These guys assume that having a funny idea is an end in itself.
02/06/09
It's a little on the lazy side, more content with having fun and dropping names than with actually commenting on anything.
02/06/09
The best parts commingle with a lot of shopworn ideas that Kevin Smith more or less milked dry a decade ago.
02/06/09
Makes me appreciate how the jokes in Family Guy are really accessible to anyone. These are not. This is really just for fanboys, and that's fine. Have a celebration of love of Star Wars and write a love letter to the fans.
02/06/09
Probably the closest thing my generation will get to having its own "Diner"
02/06/09
After years of expectation, Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace didn't work for most fans of the franchise. Ironically, it feels like people may say the same thing about Fanboys.
02/05/09
While "Fanboys" has an amusing premise, it doesn't know how to properly exploit it and the result is a film that is nowhere near as funny or incisive as it should have been.
02/05/09
For its amusing premise, Fanboys is scarily flat.
02/05/09
Many actual plot points are annoyingly trite...However, if you're the sort of person who can appreciate a Ray Park cameo or a THX-1138 nod, you'll laugh, cry and wince in recognition
02/05/09
While it may score some points as an extended in-joke, the mix of juvenile comedy and insider asides is arcane, snobby and just not very funny.
02/05/09
It's hard to imagine any sort of alchemy transforming the script's parade of Star Wars references and tired nostalgic '90s signifiers into gold, or -- this many years after Jar Jar Binks -- make their passion seem anything but sadly misplaced.
02/05/09
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