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Let's forget for a minute that Lucas totally sold out big time on promoting this film... (ie)pepsi, burger king and m&m's to name a few overly embarrassing plugs.

The film as a whole is pretty good. It kept my interest and was pretty entertaining. The battle scenes and lightsaber fights rock.

R2D2 has some great scenes and is much more mobile with cool new features like jumping and jets that let him fly around a bit. The problem with all of this is that in the original films, he needs a crane to get in and out of air-craft and is very clumsy. This is just one of several flaws in tying in the whole story.

The scenes btwn Padme and Anakin are again embarrassingly painful to watch. Lucas is clearly a lousy dialogue screenwriter. The story of how Anakin became Darth Vader is pretty cool and overall rather well done. As are the wicked cool scenes in the middle of the movie when the Jedi are on the run and are being eliminated.

The end of the movie is where it all falls apart for the true Star Wars fan. Lucas seemed to feel the need to explain the whole Jedi coming back from the dead to talk to other Jedi in the future via the blue soul thing. Which was terribly done and can be figured out w/o explanation from him. Also the splitting up of Luke and Leia at the end of the movie is completely off from the stories in the original series. Padme dies right after childbirth and the kids are split up. However in Return of the Jedi, Luke asks Leia if she has any memory of her mother: her real mother. To which she responds...yes a little she was very beautiful and kind but sad. How is this possible for her to say now that Lucas screwed up and killed Padme off on the delivery table? Lucas killed the ending a bit and really botched some of the tying in of the stories. But all in all this was a decent movie and a huge improvement from the other two he just made.

Wow back when I was 5 in 1986, I loved this movie, I thought it was great, I even liked the crappy song at the end of the movie. I have owned a VHS copy of it all these years that hasn't been viewed since the 80's. I recently watched it for the first time in years and I must say I was laughing so hard at how ridiculous it was that I almost peed. It still hold up as a classic bad 80's movie and I must say it is still hilarious and a bit twisted. How Lea Thompson is supposed to have a sexual relationship with a duck is beyond me and my biological understanding of birds but it is still a fun time. So check out the movie; grab a six pack and a good humored friend and go to town!

I've always been a big fan of star wars and I thought I knew a lot about it until my boy friend and his best friend asked me if I have ever seen the holiday special. I didn't even know one existed and I had actually seen both Ewok movies, go figure.

Well as a joke I suppose our friend gave us the movie last night for xmas and we popped it in. It is by far the most heinous piece of crap I have ever seen. I was warned it was bad but, WOW it was terrible. I lost an hour and a half of my life and really nothing happened during that time other than losing any shred of respect I may have had for George Lucas.

The effects are so bad they are hilarious and there seems to be some type of odd porn scene involving Chewbaca's father and some 70's Disco Queen. I watched most of the program with my mouth hanging wide open in utter disbelief. The rest of the time I was laughing at just how awful the whole thing really is.

I still recommend watching the film if only to say that you have. Especially if you claim to be a Star Wars geek. Just make sure you have plenty of alcohol on hand and some friends with an excellent sense of humor.