I enjoyed the different alien costumes. Valerian had some funny scenes. I would have liked to felt a more intensed connection between the main characters. Rhianna as Bubble grabbed everyones attention.

I miss Moebius (Jean Giraud), the comic book artist who did the film adaptation concept artand who died in 2012. I could see his work echo throughout the movie, right behind Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières. Luc Besson's fidelity to the source material was astounding. This fidelity also contains a fatal flaw: Valérian et Laureline was conceived in satire of space opera back in 1967. Since then, fantasy and science fiction has run headlong into that satire. What was satirized then has been standardized in electronic gaming now— which is why the movie fell kind of flat in its writing and protagonists. Valerian's redeeming qualities are its quirky visuals, owing largely to Moebius, Mézières, and Besson. Aliens in Valerien came across as more alive and with greater depth of character than any Star Wars or Star Trek franchise, but not as well as Guardians of The Galaxy. There were plenty of wonderful, memorable moments. 1. The heist of the converter critter worked very well and probably set expectations very high for the remainder of the film.2. Laureline's captivity, Valerian's encounter with Bubble, and Laueline's resuce sidestepped into some wonderful comedic pacing laced with engaging Pathos. (Make a whole movie with Rihanna and Ethan Hawke — they were fantastic.)3. The genocide depicted a true horror, but it didn't register as dramatic? This is where the movie failed in some ways. The General failed at being interesting. He was written in such a way as to make him a boring bad guy.Thanks for the tickets! The nostalgia was really good, but I probably won't re-watch Valerian. A sequel with better writing— that, I would definitely watch.

It was an interesting story, but it was slow-moving. With no previous knowledge of the story I had no history with these characters or this world and the movie didn't convince me to like them until the end of the movie. The movie lacked any sort of pace or a need to find out what happened next. Overall it was a pleasant, but not a memorable, movie experience.

Would be an amazing movie, if the main characters' dialogue was edited out