I am a geek, I've known geeks...and the guys in this movie are no geeks! Enough Lloyd Bentsen: Free Enterprise is...welll, okay. It's pretty much a standard romance, but it's presumably either some kind of wish fulfillment for the sad pathetic people (including me!) that are this obsessive about sci-fi, or it is filtered through your typical Hollywood execs' view so that the sci-fi fans are inevitably handsome leading-men and women types who have sex regularly. Ummm, huh? William Shatner is certainly funny parodying himself, there are a few sharp insights into sci-fi fandom, and there are bits of inspired humor (the childhood flashbacks, the whole idea of a Julius Caesar musical). But ultimately the movie bogs down on the lives of these two lovable loser/sf fans that are way too "normal" for most sf fans to identify with, and too monomanically obsessive with sf trivia for a regular audience to catch on to.
Review of Free Enterprise
