Synopsis
In 1999, Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of The Phantom Menace before its release.
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Cast
- Sam HuntingtonEric
- Jay BaruchelWindows
- Dan FoglerHutch
- Kristen BellZoe
- Christopher MarquetteLinus
- David DenmanChaz
- Christopher McDonaldBig Chuck
- Isaac KappyGarfunkel
- Seth RogenAdmiral Seasholtz / Alien / Roach
- Charlie B. BrownMyron
Recommendations
- 75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A hilariously spry effort from an equally unpromising premise. - 70
NPR
You'd think the weakest link in Fanboys would be that it's all in-jokes, but they're actually not so "in" that a casual fan won't get them. - 63
ReelViews
Unfortunately, while Fanboys has moments of success, it is mostly a middling road picture that doesn't do a lot more than any average, forgettable entry into the tired genre. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Mildly cute, mildly drooly, majorly too late spoof/homage. - 50
Variety
End result feels like an uneven cross between an amateur "Project Greenlight" pic and such recent comedies as "Superbad" and "Pineapple Express," in which indie directors brought a certain edge to material that might once have felt more at home under the National Lampoon label. - 50
Chicago Tribune
A genial, sloppy, minor affair, offering a smidgen of inside baseball, which includes a gag at the expense of the forgotten, late '80s Lucas-produced epic "Willow." - 50
Philadelphia Inquirer
For its amusing premise, Fanboys is scarily flat. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Fanboys doesn't have a fan's obsessive attention to detail, or the giddy geekiness that can make Tarantino's movies both thrilling and trying. It's not nearly nerdy enough.
