fine effort this time around

Rating: Null/10 (3 June 2002)

I have just seen the latest installment of Star Wars, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I have also been rewatching the original series with my 7 year old. All of the complaints I have read allude to the accuracy of a fictional story. Come on! It's visual popcorn. And pretty good popcorn at that. None of us will ever have the same feeling about a Star Wars movie as we did about the first one. Wouldn't we all love to see "Raiders" for the first time again. But we can't. Same with this. I loved the hokey dialogue, the simplistic moral concepts, the wooden acting. It reminded me of the first series. I loved the peripheral "cartoon" characters, the accents, the inventive language, the incredible detail in the construction of cities and civilizations. I did not like Samuel L. Jackson, Yoda riding shotgun on a helicopter (will we be seeing him in the next Vietnam movie). I thought the acting was great. See it on a digital screen if you can, and try to see it through the eyes of a 15 year old, which is where I was when I first saw "Star Wars". Thank you, Mr. Lucas, for continuing to see good and evil through the eyes of an innocent.