Fanboys
Fanboys takes a comic deep dip into the ultimate in geekdom i.e. rabid fans of Star Wars and Star Trek. If you get nothing else from this romp you’ll walk away knowing there is no honour among these terminal virgins. Hapless Star Wars fans have no use for Trekkies (now preferring to be called the less offensive Trekkers) and the feeling is mutual. With countdown clocks set to tick off the days until the release of Star Wars I, in small town Ohio circa 1999 three Star Wars worshippers – Windows (Jay Baraschel), Linus (Chris Marquette) and Hutch (Dan Fogler) - are reunited at a Halloween party with Eric (Sam Huntington) a Federation commander who has lost his religion. Differences are set aside when it becomes apparent that one of them won’t survive until the movie release date and they plan a trip to the George Lucas Skywalker Ranch in San Francisco to steal a pre-release copy of the flick. Along the way there’s the usual road picture hijinks highlighted by a pathetic dust up at the statue of James T. Kirk in his legendary home town. They also secure help from Carrie Fisher playing a matronly nurse, a game William Shatner as himself and Kristen Bell as Zoe who uncharacteristically turns out to be the love interest of NOT the most likely of the quartet to attract women. Let’s hope this film doesn’t end up biting the audience hoped will feed it.