The most complete movie ever??

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2007)

So, you set out to write a story to make into a movie. How do you decide whether to write a Pirate romp, a Sci-Fi story, a Magical Fantasy with Wizards and Giants, a Heroic adventure, a War epic, a Love tale with a Princess, or even "just" an Action movie? If you are George Lucas, you don't. You put them all into one.
You start with a couple of robots and tell the whole story from the perspective of a couple of lost servants towed along through the maelstrom that follows. You throw in a beautiful Princess in a flowing white gown, then contrast her with probably the greatest evil entrance in film history, a 7foot terror dressed all in black and hidden by a mask.
You twist off to start the Heroic arc of the teenager taking orders from his over-protective step-parents. He recruits a Wizard, replete with Shakespearean gravitas and a cloak to match, to guide his endeavours. They then head off in search of a pirate with a laser gun and an 8foot teddy-bear sidekick, to help rescue the Princess.
An enemy ship so enormous they mistake it for a planet, disguising themselves as enemy soldiers, escaping from a closing garbage compressor (and it's monocular octopus), sword fighting with glowing blades against the mystical giant, swinging across open chasms with the princess, an aerial battle over the enemy ship and even a ghostly return of the wizard.
What more could you cram into two hours of the greatest escapism ever captured on film? (Well, maybe a Jim Henson midget green alien with even more mystical powers and some funny grammar, but for that you only have to watch the next episode).