Did I See This Already?

Rating: 7/10 (28 January 2016)

I saw a movie the other day where an evil guy in a mask was cavorting across the galaxy looking for a droid that had plans stuck in it by some rebels. The droid was found stranded on a desert planet by a, what looks like, insignificant character. A number of action sequences followed and a large planet sized thing was going to shoot another large planet until some small spaceships found an insecurity in a toilet duct and blew it up. The insignificant character turned out to be significant and there seems to be heavy hints that nearly all the leading characters are related to each other (or will be when they fall in love at some future date). I then decided I had seen Star Wars often enough so went out to see Force Awakens.
I can only assume that when the force awakened all creativity went to sleep. Maybe this is a symbiotic thing where the force and creativity are mutually exclusive (can't exist together). I guess no risks were taken here that is why we got such a formulaic movie. Having said that, I like the formula so maybe they were right to do what they did. My son certainly enjoyed it (and he is 9).
If there were no Star Wars characters in this movie and it was made by someone else two things would have happened:(1) Disney (or whoever owns the copyright to Star Wars as this is read) probably would have sued for copying the story from A New Hope; (2) Very few people would have gone to see it. I would have gone though, as I like spaceships.