The bookmark of childhood we all need...

Rating: 10/10 (8 December 2002)

Star Wars defines "fantasy" for all children who exist as men and women. None so more evident in any Star Wars cinema premier or special.
The old Saturday morning serial, under the tutoridge of the great Akira Kurosawa, has provided now 2 generations of stellar bound dreamers of adventure a fantastic platform for release from 9-to-5, with Lucas as the pilot, to a distant galaxy far, far away where even modern politics play a role in this very appropriate, very entertaining serial mimics not only the Skywalker within each other, but the statis quo. Fiction or non-fiction, Star Wars removes the reality element from the status quo and returns us all to the child we want to be, whether it be playing with ewoks in our front garden or standing up to the local bully in the name of the Jedi.
May the force be with you