Everything we thought it was and more....

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2015)

I'll keep it brief. J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt took one of the most iconic movies and used it as a road map, knowing that we all fell in love with it when we were 8 and knowing that we will all get that same warm and fuzzy feeling seeing it again 30 years later. Knowing that we've yearned for a return to form...and also understanding that it worked on the 8 year old's of yesteryear, it was destined do the same for today's youth. There was just enough laugh out loud humor, just enough nostalgia and self recognition of it, and there was also a sense that the new protagonists were fans of Star Wars themselves...I truly think (and hope) the writers should use this as a warm memory to Episode IX only to reel us in and shatter our expectations, changing directions and introducing both young and old to uncharted, yet familiar systems.