Who are the ultimate Fanboys?

Jay and I watched Fanboys last night. Of course we did. We actually had the DVD in our house a day before it was released. Yup. We had to watch it because it was about the ultimate Star Wars fans and because we are up there with some of the hardcore fans, we would at least "get it" (we did go to Celebration IV for our honeymoon after all).

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT for those who care... Fanboys starts with a group of friends who loved Star Wars as kids. Now, as adults, they have grown apart. Eric works at his dad's used car lot. Linus, Hutch and Windows work at a comic book shop and antagonize the Trekkies...excuse me...Trekkers that enter the shop. It is 1998, six months before the release of Episode I, the most anticipated movie in history for die-hard Star Wars fans. Eric runs into his friends at a party and find out that Linus is dying of cancer and has only a couple months to live. Eric decides to re-visit a childhood dream of storming Skywalker Ranch in California to see Episode I before its release date, one last adventure for Linus.

It's actually a great road trip movie. There are many funny scenes and interesting cameos (like Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes). The cancer theme is not pushy or sappy, it is realistic with emotion. Jay said he read that the reason this movie took so long to come out and why it was such a limited release was because they tried to cut the cancer theme out and just make it about a bunch of guys who decide to steal from George Lucas. Really, without that theme, this movie would have had no direction and would have really stunk. I'm glad they stuck to their guns and made it a truer movie.

The only negative to the film is you REALLY have to know your Star Wars to get most of the jokes and homage lines and scenes and background noises. Sadly, I was laughing all he way through. Jay still had to point out some things to me I missed...and I got upset with myself about that ("I knew that one!"). If you are not a fan of Star Wars, you just won't get it. If you at least liked the movie, it is a cute, geek testosterone-driven road trip movie. If you know the name of Chewbacca's home planet, go buy a copy of the movie right now!
--your "Fangirl", Maegann

Jay gives this movie 4 out of 5 tacos