Just a nostalgia trip

Rating: 3/10 (31 December 2015)

Watching this movie, I could just feel that its creators wanted so bad to just remake the original, but knew that the fans wouldn't go for that, so they gave us a remake in disguise. They just shuffled the scenes, and where they didn't fit together they interjected some convenient coincidences to force them to fit together. Han Solo just happens to be in this part of the galaxy at just the right time. We need a light sabre, oh yeah, there just happens to be one from the original movie right nearby.
And the nostalgia trip. This was kind of like the Star Wars version of one of those PBS pledge drive concerts. Let's bring out this group you haven't seen in 30 years. There's some of the original people with a few youngsters to fill things out. They're going to give you all the old hits: the death star,"This droid is not for sale", using mind control on the stormtroopers, a droid carrying data everybody wants, the father/son light saber battle, choking your officers via the force, and, of course, we all remember the cantina scene, etc.
I was hoping to see an original new installment of the series; but, this was not it.