This is it? Empire vs Teddy Bears

Rating: 8/10 (14 November 2017)

Let's just begin by saying that, the savage reviews and ratings regarding the flaws of RotJ is completely justified. But, in spite of it, RotJ still offers a rather satisfying closure to an otherwise near perfect scifi saga.
The Ewoks are a massive failing on the part of George Lucas; second only to the universally despised Jar Jar Binks. Lucas has a bad habit of trying to please everyone but while Star Wars 1,2 and 3 merely displayed his utter confusion between good story and bad ideas, RotJ thankfully, wasn't that.
Still, having a tribe of 4 foot, woodland teddy bears best the might, numbers and technologically advanced Imperial Stormtroopers, is just cringe-worthy and really bad storytelling. So is Boba Fett's undignified death by Sarlacc (okay, so canonically he did escaped but no one knew that then or now).
But much of RotJ was done just enough to be remembered fondly as it was; good guys winning, a lost soul redeemed, and the bad guys defeated.
The overwhelming positive of this film must be Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine, who has the best lines and played it with absolute relish. McDiarmid oozes and gushes evil, the corrupter of good with Machiavellian thinking. In fact, the Jedi and Sith showdown was done well, bar the fact that Vader was fatally weakened due to simply losing his prosthesis (shoddy writing again).
The space battle was also exciting and I wish there had put in more effort into making a fleet on fleet warfare.
If you could forgive all the fault RotJ has, then you might enjoy it.