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It’s been a long time since I’ve loved a movie so much that I paid the admission price to the theater more than once. I can tell you haw long it’s been, since Saving Private Ryan came out in 1998, it’s been seven years. But I had to go back to see Serenity again. I can’t right now say that I won’t shell out the six buck or eight fifty to go see it again. It was just that good to me.

If you haven’t seen it, the series Firefly was left for dead by the looser executives at Fox who wouldn’t know a hit if it was upside their head. The show ran for eleven episodes and captured the fandom it needed to put the DVD set in Amazon’s top ten. You would think this would lead to a revival right? Well, Fox made sure that would never happen. It almost makes you think they have something against the genre. If you look at their history, going all the way back to Star Trek, they’ve never been a friend of Sci-Fi. They had a hit with The X-Files despite themselves, but there were other occasions too like Space Above and Beyond, where they showed their utter contempt for the genre. But I digress, such the ill will I feel toward Fox, who are holding the creator of Firefly (Joss Whedon) to a contract that only Fox can do a Firefly based series for the next twenty years. So what did Joss do? He went and made a movie! Boy oh boy am I glad he did too. This film was a real treat to those of us who thought we were never going to see more of the crew of Serenity.

I don’t really want to get too much into the film. I don’t want to give it away. I think my feelings are best summed up by saying that Joss does everything with this movie that George wanted to do, but fell short and then some…. It’s quite simply one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Oh….And this is the REAL wagon train to the stars too…..Don’t forget that.