More importantly, the T-Mobile G1 runs Android, which is flat-out the most exciting and open smart phone operating system around.
It really is a terrific first act: witty, smart, exciting – and Fanning's reading of her first scene is great, perhaps the best "rehearsal" scene since Naomi Watts's audition piece in Mulholland Drive.
If they have the potential to be something more than a dead-end, they should keep the brand alive in a lower-priced existence while forgetting about incremental upgrades and focusing on a more exciting (and expensive) future for smart glasses.
It's a star-driven mass-market entertainment that's smart, exciting and unexpected while not stinting on genre satisfactions.
Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, considering the film "a star-driven mass-market entertainment that's smart, exciting and unexpected while not stinting on genre satisfactions" that broke a strain of "cookie-cutter, been-there blockbusters".
The performances are smart and exciting, and Mr. Domingo's vocal maturity finds depths in the music that younger, fresh-voiced singers might miss.
Matt Wales of IGN gave the entire series a "great" rating of 8.5 out of 10, saying that it "mightn't have been perfect" but rebooted the show "with a burst of creative energy" and "got bold, exciting, witty, smart, home-grown event television back on the small screen".
"This is a sound investment in a growing and exciting company with smart people".
