Randy invited and Margie kindly offered to watch after Kitten, who was feeling slightly under the weather. So … I went.<\/p>\n
Boo-yah!<\/a><\/p>\n Not much I can add to my review from the preview in May<\/a>. The movie has gotten a high buff and polish — the music is perfect, the post-processing on some of the scenes has lent them appropriately interesting tones, etc. Nothing much was changed — there might have been a few little bits tossed in, though the scene adds in the Visual Guide<\/a> were not present. But it all feels cleaner, grittier, and more exciting and fun, even knowing what was coming.<\/p>\n The movie starts out a bit rough — it feels a bit too much like a TV movie on the big screen, in tone and presentation (and, occasionally, in effects and set pieces). But eventually things really get rolling, and it all comes together, and other cliches like that.<\/p>\n If I have one objection to Serenity, is that it does seem like a movie that wraps up plot points that ought to have been spread out over five years or so. 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