A rarity that a little film devoted to a whole series comes across your screen and is actually pretty decent. Yes the film is about fans of the Star Wars saga, but the subplot of their devotion of a friend who is dying of cancer gets lost along the way. The film centers around going to Skywalker Ranch in California to steal a preview of the new Star Wars film. A lot of hijinks and comical disasters happen along the way. The humor is vulgar, set as in revenge of the nerds style. I enjoyed the film and it has Kristen bell in it which is always a bonus..

I like to consider myself a loyal Star Wars fan. I saw it when I was 10 years old so it had an immense impact on me. I know all the characters, all the planet's names, had all the soundtracks, etc., so I knew FANBOYS would be THE movie for the Star Wars geek in me.It is a good movie, done by very loyal fans and I did enjoy it. It just happens that the characters aren't that well developed and you kind of don't feel much for any of them, except for maybe Zoe (Kristen Bell) and her secret crush on young Lucas-look-alike Windows (Jay Baruchel). There's a guy dying of cancer here (Linus, played by Chris Marquette), the main reason for this whole movie to develop, yet this subplot is dropped almost dead. Linus' geek friends propose a cross country trip from east to west coast in order to break into George Lucas' Skywalker ranch and get a sneak peek at the (then) new Star Wars movie: The Phantom Menace, all before Linus passes away.It could've been a much better handled plot, since it had a great premise and the characters are really well cast. It's one of those stories that might've looked good on paper or spoken about, but never really pans out when filmed.I'll say it again: I enjoyed Fanboys, but it's because of that Star Wars geek inside of me. Other than that, it might not impress too many people out there.

Four childhood friends and Star Wars fans decide to go cross-country to steal a copy of 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace' before its release from George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch. Eric (Sam Huntington) is on the cusp of real responsibility with the family car dealership. Windows (Jay Baruchel) has an online fling with a girl who says she has plans to Skywalker Ranch. Linus (Chris Marquette) is really sick and Hutch (Dan Fogler) is the loud-mouth idiot. Zoe (Kristen Bell) is Windows' co-worker at the video store. Seth Rogen plays Admiral Seasholtz, leader of the Trekies, and pimp Roach.This is definitely best for sci-fi fans. There is a lot of references to Star Wars, Star Trek, and quite frankly various other franchises. The movie just won't work if you don't know any of the references. Of course, there are all sorts of cameos from those series. Not all of the road trip works well. The roadside biker bar isn't that funny. The fight with the Trekkies is much better. When Zoe rejoins the group at the midpoint, she has a lot of fun with the geeks. Probably she should have been the fifth road tripper right from the start. While the constant referencing is funny, sometimes it needs a break to work more on the relationships.

From the heart of all stupidly surreal, next-to-nothing budgeted road trip movies is the motivation to actually want to watch it, and you'd think if it was based on a group of dysfunctional nerds who have an unhealthy craving for everything and anything Star Wars most people could actually enjoy the experience for once.A great shame then that despite having an expectancy of daftness (regularly unaccompanied by humour) everything gets taken overboard. Take the loathing of the Trekkies, who for the their first few appearances are welcome 'rivals' but the whole act spirals out of sanity when all they seem to be capable of is being another pointless obstruction over and over and over again.It doesn't even loiter on the characters (their terminally ill friend, might as well have been mentioned in passing for all the good it did) who served well as shifting parts of the background with great efficiency. If there was something to like, it didn't go full blown Napoleon Dynamite and it hasn't blurred into the over-filled category of 'It looks good so that will do'.It's occasionally fun for sure, but the only excusable alibi succumbed was the guilty pleasure excuse or on the basis of its Star Wars orientation, which neither could be laden as valid.