En esta ocasión ha sido Filmfocus.co.uk (vía WHEDONesque), que coloca a Serenity en primera posición de las mejores películas del año:
The little movie that could have and should have. We fussed and fretted over whether we could justify giving this the number one spot since our gushing inspired only a handful of those hard-to-please general cinemagoers to make the trip, but we reasoned it in the end with one simple thought: No other film this year managed to wholeheartedly live up to the weight of simply immense expectation quite like Serenity and then go and set the bar even higher.
Eso de que cumplió las expectativas y las superó casi me hace soltar unas lagrimitas (tierno que es uno). Cuanta verdad en tan pocas palabras.
Mientras tanto, en Eye Weekly comentan el dvd de Serenity y no ahorran en elogios. Es más, casi se pasan un poco y todo:
Anyone with a functioning set of synapses knows that Joss Whedon’s Serenity is a leaner, meaner and more emotionally involving space opera than George Lucas’ wheezy Revenge of the Sith. Now it’s time for some heresy — it’s also better than any of the Star Wars movies. Period. Whedon’s taken the clever future-western conceit and sharply sketched outlaw heroes of his short-lived TV series Firefly and plugged them into a narrative that not only offers genuine genre thrills, but also functions rather niftily as a critique of the evil, unseen forces that would subject the viewing public to a steady diet of bland, homogenized crap.
Y como me indica José María Mateos, Serenity no aparece entre las diez mejores películas según Salon (un fallo lo tiene cualquiera) pero sí sale en las menciones honoríficas. Algo es algo.