Fanboys Critic Reviews

At times, Fanboys is every rowdy low-budget '80s road movie you've ever seen on Cinemax at 2 in the morning. What keeps the movie near, if not actually in, hyperdrive is its love of deep-dish geek culture and a gaggle of cameo appearances.Read the full review

Its primary flaw is that it's not critical. It is a celebration of an idiotic lifestyle, and I don't think it knows it.Read the full review

Mildly cute, mildly drooly, majorly too late spoof/homage.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Uninspired and only faintly funny.Read the full review

Given how insultingly fanboys are portrayed, even the fan base could be put off.Read the full review

There are enough good jokes in Fanboys, a road comedy about geeks on a "Star Wars"-related quest, to satisfy hard-core fans of that George Lucas franchise. But the film doesn't have the boosters, or thrusters, or whatever, to elevate it to more ambitious heights; it's weighed down by tired conventions and a general sense of having missed its moment.Read the full review

Fanboys has a lot of talent in its margins, including Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen, and other usual suspects.Read the full review