The Force is strong with this one ( No spoilers, I promise!)

Rating: 8/10 (21 December 2015)

I am a little dismayed at the amount of negative reviews for this movie. Star wars has been, and will always be a fantasy adventure story for those who are young and those who are young at heart. It is not the Dark Knight.
I am 41 and can remember watching all the originals at the cinema with my Dad, and loving them, and of course, as I got older I saw the corny nature of some the story-lines but I still loved them for it, I enjoyed the films for what they were, not for what they weren't, and this episode is no different. It would be so easy, and quite lazy, to be cynical about this movie but I think you would just denying yourself a pleasurable 2 hour ride.
I took my 11 year old son to see this picture and he was buzzing with excitement, and when we left the cinema,and we were both high-five- ing anything that moved.
The depth and vision of the landscapes were jaw dropping, and when I first saw the X wings I felt a lump in my throat and I must have welled up will tears of joy on several occasions. The new characters are fantastic, and the original characters are like old friends who you are just glad are back into your lives.
Of course the plot is not original. But then again Droids (like laptops) are there to store information. And the whole Death star thing has been done, but don't all evil powers (both real and imagined) attempt to build or source a super weapon to control the world. And just because they have been foiled a couple of times it doesn't they aren't going to try again.
Before this film I didn't have much awareness of JJ Abrahams, or his work, but if I saw him I'd shake him by the hand and thank him for making this craggy 41 year old feel like a kid again, if only for 140 mins....