Serenity (2005)
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Critic Consensus: Snappy dialogue and goofy characters make this Wild Wild West soap opera in space fun and adventurous.
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A band of renegades on the run in outer space get in more hot water than they anticipated in this sci-fi action-adventure adapted from the television series Firefly. In the 26th century, the galaxy has been colonized by a military force known as the Alliance, but its leadership has not gone unquestioned. The Alliance was once challenged by a league of rebels known as the Independents, but the Alliance emerged victorious after a brutal civil war, with the surviving Independents scattering around … More
| Rating: | PG-13 (for sequences of intense violence and action, and some sexual references) |
| Genre: | Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Directed By: | Joss Whedon |
| Written By: | Joss Whedon |
| In Theaters: | Sep 30, 2005 Wide |
| On DVD: | Dec 20, 2005 |
| Box Office: | $25.3M |
| Runtime: |
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LoginCritic Reviews for Serenity
All Critics (179) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (147) | Rotten (32) | DVD (48)
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.
The settings and tone are hyper-real, yet the human behaviour is grounded and credible, the moral conflicts complex and involving. Shiny, intelligent fun.
Go out and see Joss Whedon's witty whizbang of an action movie, or we will kill a kitten.
After suffering through a summer crammed with TV shows being remade into movies, it's refreshing to see a movie based on a TV show that is so entertaining that it actually makes you want to go and see the show of which the movie was created.
New viewers will be a little bit lost, and old fans won't get quite everything they wanted, but there's enough going on in Serenity and it's all so much fun that it doesn't matter.
In the end you are left with the feeling that Whedon works better on television than in the cinema.
Audience Reviews for Serenity
Simply one of the finest sci fi stories out there. A superb cast brings the series Firefly to the big screen and casts a wonderful spell. Summr Glau is one of the best bad assess of the sci fi world.
Super Reviewer
The crew of a spaceship operating on the ragged edge of civilisation are targeted by the ruling Alliance for harbouring a pair of fugitives that have knowledge of a secret that is potentially devastating to their regime. The fans of cult sci-fi western Firefly were aware that Joss Whedon was capable of creating a hugely enjoyable fantasy blockbuster a good while before The Avengers hit our screens. Serenity is the conclusion to the swiftly - and unjustly - cancelled TV show and contains the same formula of likable characters, funny one-liners and space bound action that made it so beloved by the few who actually saw it. The idea of a roguish smuggler going head to head with a charismatic villain to expose the folly of an evil empire is not unlike that of a certain other infamous franchise; in fact Serenity could be considered Han Solo: The Movie and captures the charm of the original Star Wars trilogy far more successfully than its own prequels. Existing in the space between Pirates Of The Caribbean and Minority Report, Serenity makes a perfect conclusion to Whedon's space-bound saga and I encourage anyone who enjoyed The Avengers to seek out copies of both this and the original Firefly series.
Super Reviewer
Serenity is the work of an auteur. It's hard to call Joss Whedon that since he primarily works in fantasy, horror, and sci-fi (apparently only Godard, Scorsese, and Welles can be considered auteurs), but there hasn't been a space opera film thoughtful, funny, well acted, entertaining, and lively since the original Star Wars. A masterwork for fans of Firefly and great fantasy alike.
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Serenity Quotes
| Capt. Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds: | I mean to confound these bungers. |
| Capt. Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds: | I aim to misbehave... |
| Capt. Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds: | I'll take the shuttle in closer. Zoe, ship is yours. Remember, if anything happens to me, or you don't hear from me within the hour, you take this ship and you come and you rescue me. |
| Zoe: | What? And risk my ship? |
| Capt. Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds: | I mean it. It's cold out there. I don't wanna get left. |
| Capt. Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds: | What in the hell happened back there? |
| Wash: | Start with the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a 90-pound girl because I don't think that's ever getting old. |
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