Christina Reviews (the one, the only) *Buffy The Vampire Slayer*

          Pike: Buffy, you're the guy. You are the chosen guy.          
          Buffy: Right. I'm the chosen one. And I choose to be shopping.

          I’m lucky.  I remember the time when there was only one Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  And as far as I’m concerned, there is still only the one.

         From what I hear, the TV show was what the screenwriter initially envisioned for the script, but his vision was trampled on by those who obviously knew better. 

        The reason why the movie worked, in my opinion, was because it rightly poked fun at the whole concept of a cheerleader discovering, at the age of 18, that she was born with the sole purpose of being trained as a vampire slayer so that she could wipe out a population of newborn vampires currently threatening her town.  The movie is an example of camp at its most appealing, whereas the TV show takes itself way too seriously.  Or if not way too seriously, then at least more seriously than any movie about a teenage vampire slayer should.  I watched the first episode of the show, thought to myself, “Boy, this sucks,” and gave up on it.  I’m not going to give a TV series more time than the movie had to draw me in.  That’s just ludicrous.  And yet the TV show was an instant success, whereas the movie still flounders in the lake of obscurity.  Oh well.  I never judge a movie’s success by whether or not the general public takes to it.  If I did, Twilight would be the work of a consummate professional.

        I guess I just prefer the days when life was simpler----the days when I was twelve years old, and a really good afternoon was walking to CVS with my friends and buying candy.  Those were the days when Zack Morris and Kelly Kapowski were our afterschool friends.  And there was only one Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and it was Kristy Swanson, not Sarah Michelle Gellar.

       Three and a half stars