Hilarious, bizarre and a little bit brilliant!

Rating: 8/10 (27 February 2020)

As trilogy cappers go, Return of the Jedi does feel a bit like they stopped taking it seriously. I mean firstly, what on Earth is Luke's plan in those Jabba's Palace sequences? Let's all go in one by one and get captured then see what happens? Secondly: remember our cool new villain Boba Fett that's really popular? Let's have a blind man accidentally knock him into a giant hole in the floor 15 minutes in. Third: the Ewoks. Because what Star Wars really needed was a race of space teddy bears that throw rocks at highly trained soldiers and worship C3PO as god. And let's not even mention the out of nowhere, clearly unplanned reveal that Leia is Luke's sister which makes certain scenes in the last two... at the very least odd to watch.
It's so ridiculous the whole way through, you'll find yourself laughing along - potentially at rather inappropriate moments (many Bothans died to bring us this information). It's also though, undeniably, a whole lot of fun. And actually a more than satisfactory conclusion to the trilogy and, for a long time, the whole saga.