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Synopsis: A passenger with a deadly secret. Six rebels on the run. An assassin in pursuit. When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything or anyone to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But, the greatest danger of all may be on their ship.

Starring: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres

Supporting actors: Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass, Chiwetel Ejiofor, David Krumholtz, Michael Hitchcock, Sarah Paulson, Yan Feldman, Rafael Feldman, Nectar Rose, Tamara Taylor, Glenn Howerton, Hunter Ansley Wryn, Logan O'Brien, Erik Erotas, Demetra Raven

Directed by: Joss Whedon

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Runtime: 2 hours

Release year: 2005

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense violence and action, and some sexual references

ASIN: B001HBYHFA (Rental) and B000I9TY4G (Purchase)

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Serenity (Widescreen Edition) DVD ~ Nathan Fillion

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Theatrical Release Information

US Theatrical Release Date: September 30, 2005
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense violence and action, and some sexual references
Production Company: Universal Pictures, Barry Mendel Productions
Also Known As: Firefly / Firefly: The Movie
Filming Locations: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park - 200 Palm Canyon Drive, Borrego Springs, California, USA | Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA | Diamond Ranch High School, Pomona, California, USA | Huntington Library & Botanical Gardens - 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, California, USA | Santa Clarita, California, USA | Stage 12, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA | Stage 19, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA | Templin Highway, Los Angeles, California, USA | Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

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5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than the series, September 30, 2005

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This is one incredible movie. No, you don't have to be familiar with the series to enjoy it, but the familiarity will make several moments in the movie that much more tragic. The action here is incredible, and unlike several of the Star Trek movies, the characters don't deviate from their series personnas. The emotional impact of several scenes is so intense it was hard to stay seated (a crash landing sequence can almost give you motion sickness). This brings a satisfying end to the storyline the original series had started. It's a shame the show never got to tell this story in its entirety. You can see where some parts of the movie are rushed in a way. Something that could have been stretched over weeks in a series had to be handled in minutes, and that robs it a little. But you have to applaud Whedon for being able to tie up all the loose ends he started with just two hours. Shame on the network for cancelling this, but congratulations to Whedon for giving the fans--both old and new--the ending the show deserved. Heroes will shine, and some will fall, but Serenity will live on.

Now bring the show back!

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5.0 out of 5 stars You Can't Stop the Signal, November 2, 2005

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This review is from: Serenity (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

It wasn't suppose to happen like this...

Back in the summer of 2001, Fox announced that "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" mastermind Joss Whedon would be creating a new television show that was a cross between Science Fiction and the Western Genres... For months Fox spent millions of dollars promoting the one "sure fire series of the season" but then the problems started... the pilot was too slow, Executive Heads Clashed, and Baseball season all got mixed into the mixing pot... and in the end fans where left with an out of order, mixed up, tale of identitify (which is ironic if you think about it).

But the fans of Joss Whedon and of the character he creates would not let this be the end of the "firefly" universe, and after much fanfare, petitions, and literal Bitching; Universal Pictures did something rather uprecidented: they green lite a "big-screen' movie which Joss Whedon describes as "a thank you to the fans."

And that is exactly what the film version of "Serenity" is. On the exterior it is a fast-past, character driven, science fiction blast for everyone to enjoy, and the people that did see it did enjoy it alot. It has survived over a month on IMDB's Top 250 Movies of All Tilme List, and has recieved glowing reviews from THE NEW YORK TIMES, EBERT & ROBERT, THE SAN FRANSISCO CHRONICLE, and more... I distinctly remember a quote from the New york Times saying "George Lucas eat your heart out."

But on the interior the movie was about the salvation of people, and it was a political commentary on big brotherism, and how if things in our society today keep going down the same road are future generations won't be much different from mal and zoe.

If your a fan of science-fiction or just good storytelling this is a movie for you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Space Opera, September 30, 2005

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Mark R., Whittington "author of Children of A... (Houston, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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A wonderous vision of the future started in the all too short run of the TV series Firefly continues in the big screen version of it, Serenity. The TV show and movie is about the crew of a star ship that is as much unlike the USS Enterprise as it can get. It's a ranshackle freighter skippered by Mal Reynolds, a man part Han Solo, part Jesse James. He was on the losing side of an intersteller civil war against the Alliance, a buraucratic, oppressive government that seems to consists of people who believe quite fervently they know better than other people how they should live their lives. Captain Reynolds and his motley crew, including his former second in command from the war, her husband the pilot, an engineer who is as cute as she is sharp with the hyper drive, a muscle bound mercenary in a constant state of mutiny, a preacher, a courtesan, and a doctor and his troubled (to say the least!) sister eck out a thin living doing odd jobs out on the frontier, some of them not exactly legal. They bicker and at times almost come to blows. Especialy due to the fact that the doctor's sister is wanted by the Alliance government for having been "enhanced" and damaged by a top secret government labortory.

Oddly enough, this crew might well save the human race among the stars. The story is a paean about how the unlikeliest people can become heroes and how the right of individuals to live free if an absolute. I hope there will be many more films in this "verse."

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