5/5 If you're a Star Wars fan you have to see this movie
  by B. Leu (Iowa, USA)
This movie sums up what it is to be a Star Wars fan. Get off my land, Trekkies!

2/5 Not quite up to the hype
  by David Boulet (Washington, DC USA)
I had heard that this was a creative and unpolished roadtrip movie, and given the subject matter of star wars fanboyism, I just had to see for myself. From the first few minutes I found my hopes a little deflated by the bad acting, cliche' screen play writing, and farce-laden comedy that seemed out of place with the film's obvious attempt to build a real story around real characters for which I was expected to invest some level of emotional involvement. That deflated enthusiasm was never restored, and continued to errode as the movie wore on. The characters (and their "issues") were cardboard cut-outs with predictable over-reactions, arguments, and the like. The plot movement felt more like a shakey waggon with loosely tied luggage falling off at every bump than the solid, streamlined plot development of a well done movie. There were a few moments that were well done and enjoyable, but they were like dull jewels that seemed to get swept under the rug by another offense by the time you had dusted them off well enough to enjoy the glow. The counterpart to this film that 'did it right' would be "High Fidelity" which mastered the art of depicting fanboys in their element of geekdom while at the same time painting a genuine story with believable characters. Ditto with Galaxy Quest (which is coming to Blu-ray at long last). Watch either High Fidelity or Galaxy Quest if you'd like to watch this concept set to film the right way. Or rent this film but be prepared to be let down if your expectations are for a "good movie".

5/5 great movie
  by Brian A. Burdick (Sterling, Ma)
This movie is an instant classic. I only will by BD's that I can watch a again and again and this one has a spot in my collection.

3/5 Overall worth watching but parts fall flat
  by Robert Moore (Chicago, IL USA)
I have to start with a question: is there some law that says that every comedy made today has to have an unfunny fat guy in it? Dan Folger is one of the least funny people I've ever seen on film. I mean, spectacularly unfunny. Yet he was front and center in this film. I know it was because he had been in the spectacularly unfunny BALLS OF FURY. The equally unfunny Seth Rogen seems to be in nearly all of these films as well. There must be some people out there who find these guys, or others like him, like Jonah Hill. But of all the unfunny fat guys populating movies today, the worst is Dan Folger. Doubt me? Watch GOOD LUCK CHUCK. Though Dane Cook did the yeoman's work in making that one a stinker, Folger's scenes took the film to a whole new level of awful. And not only did this movie have Folger at his near worse, it also had Seth Rogen in three whole roles, each one less funny than the next. When I talk to friends about how awful these guys are, I get nothing but passionate agreement. I've yet to see someone who thinks either Dan Folger or Seth Rogen is funny. Oh, I know some people online say that, but none of my real life friends can stand them. So about one and a half of the stars that were removed in my review are due to Dan Folger and Seth Rogen.

Folger and Rogen aside, I had fun watching this. There were some good jokes, many of them pretty nerdy in jokes, and a number of pretty pleasant moments. The only huge negatives were Folger and Rogen. Well, and possibly that there was less Kristen Bell than there could have been. She is largely absent in the first half of the film, but enlivened the second half. I also enjoyed seeing Jay Baruchel in the film. I haven't seen a great deal of him since the lamentably short run of UNDECLARED. The movie has a couple of nice cameos from William Shatner, Carrie Fisher, and Billy Dee Williams to represent both the STAR WARS and STAR TREK universes. And Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes have a very brief, but relatively funny, cameo.

There is a bit of a story -- a road trip by four guys (one of them terminally ill) in 1998 to go to Skywalker Ranch in California to steal the rough cut of the new THE PHANTOM MENACE -- but this is just a loose skeleton to hand a host of cultural references. If you hate popular culture and Sci-fi, you probably will hate this movie. A lot of the fun of the film is working through all the references, including the inevitable Boba Fett nod. All in all it is a fun film. If only Dan Folger had not been in the film it might have been a good one. Still, if you enjoy films about nerds, you should get a kick out of this.