Like they say, - if you have to ask, then you'll never get it.

Rating: 10/10 (21 January 1999)

I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't "get it" - if you can't appreciate the story, the wonderful characters, the plain and simple "Good trimuphs over evil" theme, then you're just too snobby for you're own good. Not every movie has to be an artsy-fartsy flick to be worth watching. Yes, maybe 2001 was a better pure sci-fi movie, but it's also the most boring 2+ hours I've ever spent in my life. Star Wars never tried to be a thinker's film - it just tried to be entertaining, and managed to do so in a way that no other film has before or since. It's a perfect example of the whole being much greater than the sum of its parts.