Fanboys doesn't suck, and like the main characters anticipating the Phantom Menace, I was worried it would. It *is* a mostly pedestrian, paint-by-numbers road trip movie where the vast majority of the primary jokes fall flat and you end up living for the slightly subtler ones (my favorite is the sight gag of the bulging pants on the Kirk/Khan statue). Great cameos from Billy Dee Williams and Carrie Fisher, and generally good incorporation of lines/situations from the movie (they actually could have done more of this).
**spoilers**
My biggest beef might have to be with the characterization of Zoe as "one of the guys". Fanboys would be swarming all over her *precisely* because she's female and knows all of the "guy" stuff. Even the biggest geek in the galaxy would recognize her as someone highly desirable to date.
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