The settings and tone are hyper-real, yet the human behaviour is grounded and credible, the moral conflicts complex and involving. Shiny, intelligent fun.
Serenity (2005)
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin
DVD Info
Release:
Jan 6, 2008
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Dual - Single Layer
- Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - French
- Subtitle - French
- Subtitle - Spanish
- Subtitle - English (SDH)
Additional Release Material:
- Deleted Scenes
- Outtakes
- Audio Commentary - 1. Joss Whedon - Writer/Director
- Featurette - 1. FUTURE HISTORY: THE STORY OF EARTH THAT WAS
- 2. WHAT'S IN A FIREFLY
- 3. RE-LIGHTING A FIREFLY
- Introduction - 1. Joss Whedon - Writer/Director
DVD-ROM:
- Weblink - Consumer Offer to Download a Free Movie Ticket ($7.50 Value)
Reviews
If you’re a novice, this is a plucky introduction to Whedon’s world and the most fun sci-fi of the year. If you’re a devotee, this is the magnificent return you’ve been praying for.
You don't have to have seen the show to enjoy the film (although we do recommend you go out and buy the DVD set of Firefly because it's bogglingly good).
A gently intelligent action sci-fi with wit, drama, and emotion to spare, this is the blockbuster you've been waiting for all year.
Effectively a Western in space, Serenity is a thoroughly entertaining, smartly written, beautifully acted, rip-roaring action-adventure movie, that will appeal to both Firefly fans and newcomers alike.
Serenity blasts George Lucass recent prequels into the ether thanks to some rip-roaring action scenes and a knack of not taking itself too seriously.
One of the most satisfying action movies in a long, long time.
For what it is -- viewed as filmmaking in and of itself -- Serenity is tense and smoothly put together.
Joss Whedon makes a rousing feature-directing debut, exploiting the cult status of his short-lived series Firefly to continue it on the big screen.
Firefly finally has the triumphant finale fans longed for: the excitingly tense, often surprising and even more frequently comical Serenity. Fans will rejoice.
In the context of an action cinema driven by false hope, misogyny and sadism, Serenity is an inspiring respite.
The movie is a sci-fi buccaneer swashbuckler; Whedon hits all the obligatory space-opera notes, and he does it with a degree of verbal wit and agile pacing that could teach George Lucas a thing or two.
Go out and see Joss Whedon’s witty whizbang of an action movie, or we will kill a kitten.
I personally didn’t care when anyone died, I was bored for most of the way, wasn’t impressed by its few action scenes.
It has everything the TV series possessed, but also manages to elevate the tension to the next level.
Any fan of Sci-Fi should enjoy this one. It's a bit too gory for the little people,but older kids and the parents, should have a blast.
The film features plenty of exciting action and fight sequences blended with interesting and believable narrative.
Serenity pulls off more honestly thrilling action with a fraction of Lucas' average budget.
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