Can you guess the sole reason why I wanted to see Fanboys? Yep. Kristen Bell. It's weird, but my Library didn't have a copy of this at all. I actually would consistently check online at least once a month just to see if my Library finally ordered it. They did. Only problem is that it took over a year for them to get off their asses. So, in a way, THIS is the longest wait time ever for a DVD from my branch. Was it worth the wait? Um, hell no. You know, I wasn't really expecting much from a movie called Fanboys, but I was expecting to at least get something halfway decent, if not original. The movie is nothing more than a Road Trip flick (which I am a fan of) as a bunch of Star Wars fans make their way to Lucas Ranch to break in and watch a rough cut of The Phantom Menace before it's official release date. Simple plot. How can you mess that up?

For starters, for a movie that is all about the Star Wars Universe, the script itself does a bad job in pretty much everything as it becomes nothing more than a parody. The entire movie is basically cramming in as many scene homages as possible with cameos from Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams and Ray Park. But there were other cameos that I didn't see coming, especially that of Seth Rogen and William Shatner, which were mildly amusing. The entire time I was watching this, I kept thinking that the writer and director were basically trying to do their own 'Kevin Smith' flick and were failing at it. I even kept thinking that Kevin would probably say this movie sucked for tying to move in on his territory. No sooner had I said that to myself, lo and behold, both Kevin and Jason Mewes would in fact pop up in their own cameos as well, which by the way, I thought was the best of all the cameos. In the end, this movie reminded me a lot of Detroit Rock City, which ironically stared Sam Huntington as well. Great premise, lousy execution. This is a Skip. As hot as Kristen is wearing the Slave Leia costume, it can't save the movie.

What was really funny to me was watching the movie, I kept thinking of K Bell as Christy Marie, and it just felt weird to see a character in a movie who was someone I knew.

Are you aware of the whole backstory of the movie?  It's pretty infamous in online geek circles because it was originally way different, a bit more serious (the "cancer" plot), and the finished product is the result of a lot of notes and interference, if I recall correctly.  And I'm not sure, but I THINK this might actually have been written BEFORE The Phantom Menace came out, and you know that they say scripts age like fish.