I wasn’t planning on blogging this, but now that I have seen mention of Serenity on Unshelved, Librarian Avengers, and Caveat Lector, I guess I can establish some librarian geek cred by saying that I saw Serenity over the weekend as part of a wedding anniversary evening out with my wife (thanks mom & dad for watching the kids).

It was cool and fun. We have been catching up on Firefly via Netflix, and I enjoyed seeing the characters given the big-screen treatment. And there is something about the handheld camera effect in the way they shoot the spaceships in flight that I love.

Minor quibbles:

• What happened to the Western-in-space costuming and mise en scène? I didn’t really miss the horses and cattle, but Simon looks way cooler in his Firefly costume of white shirt and black vest than he did in his Logan’s Run space-tunic. Mal’s duster? Gone. Villians who look like they stepped out of Deadwood? Gone. Too bad.
• Not enough snarky Whedon dialogue. The funniest quips were all in the trailers.

But those are quibbles. Way to go, Joss Whedon!