I saw it Friday afternoon and mostly liked it.

Serenity herself has had a refit! With some pretty substantial changes, including an added bulkhead in the control room and major changes to the controls; also a number of changes to the cargo bay and engine room which I will leave to the sharper-eyed. (My favorite props, the "are they equipment? Are they lockers?" thingies in the control room are now just outside it, and do seem to have stopped being occasional lockers).

Major weirdness for me: the ship still looks incredibly like the kind of places where I work. So maybe Bigtime Television Engineering wasn't such a bad choice for a space cadet born in the wrong century....

Yes, some of the spoilers (and there are three, one of them much, much bigger than he other two and so far not mentioned any any libbish cretique I've seen) were hard, hard hits, but they did make the movie work by raising the tension almost unbearably.

As for the lovely theme from the TV series, doesn't anyone stay for the credits? It's right there, minus vocals, a very nice, new performance. (Yeah, darn it, no lyrics. What, after the entire movie, the studio thought they were too overt?)

A good movie, far above the usual SF film. Better than "Destination Moon" or "2010," for pity's sake. We don't get SF cinema this good very often (nobody's done Heinlein justice, ever!), so enjoy it.

--Herself