Gets worse with age

Rating: 2/10 (9 November 2004)

Rented the DVD to see if I still found this movie to be as disjunct and trite as I thought it was in '83- it's worse than I remember. It does however warn us that the next two installments will hold together like a flimsy umbrella in a typhoon.
As everyone agrees- the cute little animals (Ewoks) really get under your skin and lower this action/sci-fi to Muppets in Space territory. Little did we know that we'd be begging for the Ewoks after meeting Jar Jar Binks in Episode 1 and 2. The plot of the trilogy begins to convolute during this movie, and the "Days of our Lives come back from the dead" device is exploited like a bad Vegas stripper.