Low Budget Sci-fi at its best

Rating: 8/10 (2 December 2005)

Lucas may not be a good director but Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher are excellent actors so it doesn't really matter when you start watching this extremely amusing piece of cinema history. Part of the charm is probably the fact that it looks so cheap. You wouldn't imagine seeing claymation in a Star Wars films for instance. All the same, the films dwelling nature-shots are stunnig and ahead of their time.
Though we only get one pretty uneventful lightsaber fight there is enough in the movie to digest that it doesn't start bugging you. Little errors in the worlds design (Latin lettering and such) don't derail the movie too much and in fact give it a kind of camp value.
What's great is that you can watch this film as a single-parter, very much like Episode I without having to worry about potential plot-holes and some such.
A very enjoyable film. Worth seeing.