Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Movie

I absolutely love the TV show, i have all 7 seasons on DVD plus Angel, but i never got around to seeing the film until this weekend when it popped up on Film 4 and i had really high hopes for it after loving the series.

Kristy Swanson takes on the role of Buffy Summers a seemingly ordinary high school teenager, well if you were to look at it from today's point of view she belongs to the "popular" group, she's a cheerleader, her boyfriend is on the basketball team and she is one of the rich girls along with a young Hillary Swank (who i just want to shut up from the minute she comes on the screen). Donald Sutherland takes on the role of the Watcher Merrick is kind of creepy as he just turns up at random places but he has been training the Slayer for hundreds of years but he is no where near as good as Giles. The online character i liked was Pike played by Luke Perry who had some great comedy moments. The story line was kind of what i expected, Buffy finding out she was the slayer, she ignores it whilst people get killed, finally realizes she needs to start doing something about it and then she defeats the bad guy with a lot of teen drama added in, plus some really bad acting.
The actual vampires were terrible, especially with the special effects having seen Lost Boys which was made 5 years earlier with better special effects and much scarier vampires, and a lot better acting (well for the 80;s anyway) and the fighting scenes are terrible Swanson was awful i much prefer Sarah Michelle Gellar. I understand that it was a low budget but i have seen some great films that have been made on a low budget.
I think if i had seen the film before the TV series then i don't think that i would have been disappointment because the standard wouldn't have been there.
I love the concept behind the film because the TV show turned out to be a success and Joss Whedon is brilliant i have loved everything he has done in particular i loved Firefly/Serenity, i just think that the film could have been better.

There have been lots of rumours about a reboot of the series but i hope they don't because it probably will ruin what has gone before especially if they are considering replacing Joss Whedon because he is a brilliant creator. All in all the film wasn't brilliant but it could have been worse,

If your a Joss Whedon fan then you should check out The Avengers and Cabin in the Woods which are playing at the cinema now.