A FITTING END TO THE STAR WARS SAGA

Rating: Null/10 (24 January 2002)

Ewoks. They are little blighters, arent they? They're small, cute and cuddly, and manage to destroy the evil empire by making weird noises and setting up traps. Most people probably hate them, and I believe they do. But this is no reason to hate this film, it's still a classic and contains some of the best scenes in the entire trilogy (the final fight between Luke and papa Vader is the best) and is a far better balanced film than Empire, there are some quite touching scenes, and the narrative is nice and varied (it starts with Laya rescuing her bit on the side' Solo then the battle between the ewoks and stormptroopers then the confrontation between Luke, Vader and that wizard guy, the Emperor). The battle with the ewoks itself is the perfect way to round things up, it shows that the battle between technology and the more organically human (despite the fact that they look like freaks and talk gibberish) will always be won as long as there is determination, friendship and teamwork involved, as well as the temptation to avoid joining the dark side (isn't this what Star Wars is all about?) George Lucas says that this is his favourite episode, although I consider the guy a freak after The Phantom Menace 8/10.