I've never seen this movie and don't really have any plans to, but I enjoyed the HELL out of your review! I also laughed my ass off in many appropriate places, and I fully agree with you that Whedon is a blatant recycler of his own works and that it's a damn shame he didn't put as much effort into the later BtVS/AtS seasons and that his whining about faults being everyone's but his means that someone -- hell, anyone -- but him should be given credit for everything in this movie that's good. (I also hope that his new movie career will keep him the hell out of the Buffy comics. They're shitty enough without his input.)