Fanboys :: movie review . The year is 1998 and 4 childhood friends find out that Linus has cancer, so they all decide to drive thousands of miles to break into the Skywalker Ranch and steal a copy of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to watch as a kind of last wish. They end up taking a wild cross county trip that includes brawling with rival Trakkies (star trek fans), doing peyote with an Indian medicine man and stripping in a gay biker bar. There are cameos from some of the stars from the Star Wars movies and see if you can notice them, it’s really cool.

This movie has Stars wars memorabilia in it that is I think is the original stuff, and was (After watching a screener) given a thumbs up from George Lucas . This film was pushed back as extra scenes were added and was involved in controversy as the original plot was reedited and the replaced , then returned to its intended form. If you were or are a Star Wars fan you’ll love this film, and if you’re not it’s still going to be funny. Kristen bell from the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall is in this film and is out of her usual character as a fellow movie geek but pulls it off, so does the rest of cast including Jay Baruchel , Dan Fogler, Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette.

This film and I are are some very funny moments in this movie and I was laughing out loud a few times. This is a very ambitious project and the attention to the details is remarkable, for the die hard fans and people who have watched these Star Wars movies it should be a kick, with multiple characters getting quizzed as to their Star Wars knowledge and trivia.

So this movie finally got released after a long battle over the final product and a series of reshoots it was ready and it works well as a fun little comedy. Kyle Newman does a great job and we can expect much more from this young and talented director, some of the scenes in this movie have a big movie feel on a small indie budget and that’s something you don’t see allot these days. After viewing an early version of the film, Filmmaker and Star Wars fan Kevin Smith does a short a cameo in this film which I think kinda proves my point.

Directed by Kyle Newman
Produced by Dana Brunetti, Kevin Spacey, Matthew Pernicaro, Evan Astrowsky, Kevin Mann
Written by Story: Ernest Cline, Dan Pulick
Screenplay: Ernest Cline, Adam F. Goldberg,
Starring Jay Baruchel, Dan Fogler, Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Kristen Bell
Music by Mark Mothersbaugh
Distributed by The Weinstein Company/Third Rail Releasing