What's all the fuss about?

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2001)

*** SPOILER ALERT *** (just in case)
Why do people -- mature, fully-grown-up-adult-type-people -- continue to laud this movie as one of the greatest of all time? Yes, it's marvelous entertainment for kids -- and the last time it was my favorite movie ever WAS when I was ten years old. Then I grew up. Watch it again and apply to it the same critical faculties you'd exercise upon any other movie you've seen since puberty. And if it still passes the test for you, despite its generally poor acting (Harrison Ford and Alec Guinness excepted), cruddy dialogue and gaping structural flaws... then I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. But in a perfect world, George Lucas would be remembered as the guy who made "American Graffiti", and not for this infantile nonsense.