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This film is well deserving of a higher score that the current 4.4 rating. The acting and sets are first rate, sfx mostly excellent, and the plot is definitely serviceable for this genre. I especially like that it maintains a PG-13 rating, keeping it accessible to a younger audience. The 17 yo Ariana Greenblatt delivers a superb, adorable characterization of the super-smart, super-sassy 13 yo Tiny Tina. I agree that some of the criticisms about illogical sequences but on the whole they're easy to overlook.

I'm a fan of this genre in video games and movies but I've never played the Borderlands videogame. In conclusion, I'd give this movie a recommend to any fan of the genre.

Slow and boring, this movie tries to makes us believe that watching the day-to-day interactions of others is worth our time. Well, come to find out, it's not. Other shows, like Seinfeld, work hard to find and mine the humor everyday life. The monotone of this movie gives us nothing. Ordinariness is presented as special and well deserving of our attention, or pity, or both. Yet ordinariness fills every human's life and is neither admirable nor pitiable. And so the plot simmers long and slow. The protagonists live, they try, they fail. Per the Rubaiyat "The moving finger writes, and haven written, moves on." No more no less, left behind. Superheroes, we are not. Maybe that's the message?

The underpinning of any serious work of science fiction is the believability of the premise based on current knowledge. Premises beyond believability become the province of Fantasy, which invites the consumer's willing suspension of disbelief. In any event this episode trivialized the many ST series by having the Strange New World actors break out in song based on the most boneheaded premise ever presented outside of the holodeck. (I would add that this entire musical "version" of Star Trek should have reasonably been written as an episode inside the holodeck....as many other Star Trek Series have done). DS9 lost me halfway through their run. STEnterprise lost me halfway through. STVoyager almost lost me until it was saved by 7of9. Now Strange New Worlds is about to lose me, too. This musical episode STUNK.