Cowboys and Indians.

Gorram! Serenity is awesome. It way surpassed my expectations. In the last 5 years we’ve had so few Sci-fi’s that feel “real.” The only one that comes to mind is Soderbergh’s Solaris. Not that these two films are similar in other ways, but Serenity feels just as “real.” This movie is a western, that happens to be set in space, but it’s so much more. Whedon’s dialogue here is on-par with Mamett and Tarintino. This has been said before, but really it’s true. Whedon’s dialogue makes you laugh, smile, and cry at the same time. It’s ridiculous, I don’t know how he does it. The audience’s emotions are in total control here, we gasp, laugh, and are silenced at the exact same time, yet it feels spontaneous and as if it was written personally for each of us.

I’m not gonna go into describing the plot, but I will say that it dodges some clichés left and right, yet embraces others so lovingly that you can’t help but smile. The villains are authentically scary, the shocks are never gratuitous, and the characters are instantly understood but simultaneously deep. You're not going to walk out of this a better person or reach any epiphanies, but this is the most fun theater experience I’ve had since Kill Bill Vol. 1. Go see Serenity now.