Tottally Awesome!!!

Rating: 7/10 (27 May 2005)

Warning: Contains LOTS of spoilers.
Star Wars Episode III: Return of the Sith is the latest amazing offering from George Lucas about Star Wars. In this episode, we learn so much about the series that I had to watch it 5 times in the theater just to understand half of what was going on.
The show starts out where the last episode left off. I was a little disappointed that they didn't do a "previously on Star Wars" portion to remind you what was going on, but that almost instantly went away due to the special effects. The effects were exactly that: Special!!! Not the kind of special that means you have to ride a short bus to school, but the other kind of special, the kind that means "totally friggin' awesome!" There is a huge space battle going on, where O.B. 1 and Luke Skywalker have to fight like a million robots all by themselves. Luckily, the robots can't seem to hit their space ships with lasers and can only attack with those robots that are like that gremlin that destroyed the airplane from "Twilight Zone: The Motion Picture". Just when you think the action can't get any more intense, R2-D2 gets in the mix and starts fighting the gremlin-bots.
Then the Jedis decide to crash land in a robot space-ship and they kill like a billion more robots with their laser swords. They find out that a friend of theirs who is the President of the Galaxy is being held prisoner on the ship by a robot named "General Grievance", so the Jedi Knights go run around until they find the robot. The president orders Luke to kill somebody named "The Count" and Luke chops off his head. Unfortunately they don't show it because I guess too many kids might be watching the show and they don't want to offend the kids with blood and stuff.
The evil robot gets away, but that's okay because later on in the show they kill him because the robot has emphysema and somebody decided to put a human liver inside of him that makes a big explosion when you shoot it with a ray gun.
Meanwhile back on the planet we discover that Princess Leah is preggers. We don't know if it's Luke's baby or O.B.1 (and we never do. Hopefully that will be cleared up in the next exciting episode of Star Wars). But since the Princess was Luke's girlfriend, he has lots of really bad Jedi dreams about her and decides he doesn't want to be a Jedi any more.
So he becomes pals with the President and learns that he can stop all the bad dreams if he runs for Darth Vader, which is kind of like the Vice President of outer-space. And guess what? Luke wins the election!!! There's a lot of talking parts of the movie that were kind of boring about the election so I didn't pay too much attention. I like the fight scenes.
But this episode of Star Wars doesn't disappoint when it comes to fight scenes. We get to see most of them in the movie, but some of them they cut out, like when Luke Skywalker fights all the little kids at the Jedi HQ. That would be a cool battle to watch. Hopefully when it's released on DVD they'll have that whole fight scene added in.
I didn't know this, but Yoda is Chewbacca's father, and goes to visit his son in this episode. The reunion is touching.
Also, they said in the season opener that Luke Skywalker's son, Anikin, was conceived by the Diphenhydramines. A big shocker: It turns out that it wasn't the Diphenhydramines at all, but instead it was Luke Skywalker's bosses boss (who we don't see because the President killed him in his sleep). I was like "Woah!" Also, it turns out that Jar Jar Binks was Princess Leah's father, and that after the other Binks found out that one of their own was fooling around with humans they kicked him out of the secret underwater city, which is why he was so ashamed to tell O.B. 1 why he was kicked out and said he was "clumsy".
Finally, we learn that Watto, the space bug that likes to gamble a lot is actually Yoda's father.
A few disappointments: Boba Fette isn't in this one, which is stupid since he's one of the coolest main characters in the show. This is supposed to be the last episode of season II, and it's never explained why O.B. 1 looks so much younger in this season then he did in season I. (I know it's because the actor who played O.B.1 in the first season died, and they had to find a replacement), but it would have been nice for them to explain it, considering so many other mysteries were cleared up. Also, why does Luke Skywalker decide to dress exactly like the original Darth Vader from the first season? He goes for half the movie after he gets elected to be Darth Vader looking normal, then he gets into a fight with O.B. 1 and part of him is burned up, so he decides to dress up just like the other Darth Vader. That doesn't really make any sense to me.
Also, I wish they didn't wait so long between episodes. I already own the first season on DVD (it was kind of expensive, considering it only had four episodes in it and one of the episodes was just a "Best of" I bought season 1 of Seinfield and it cost like half of that and has over 30 episodes).
But other then the bad things I mentioned, I'd give this a 10 out of 10. Or even more.