It's just a re-boot

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2015)

I say this contains spoilers, but anyone who's watched the 1977 original will have seen it all anyway. Some plans (sorry, a part of a map) are hidden in a droid which, after wandering across a desert (check) falls into the hands of the adopted son of a farmer (sorry, a lone female scavenger). At the same time it is hunted by the Galactic Empire (sorry, the First Order), under the command of a bad guy in a mask (sorry - oh no, that was correct, though this time there's a bad gal in a mask as well).
Meanwhile the Empire (First Order) has created a terrible weapon called the Death Star (sorry - Death Planet, only in this universe a planet is bigger than a star).
So the farmer's boy (female scavenger) and the droid (check) and a former Jedi (sorry - former Stormtrooper who's probably going to turn out to be a Jedi) proceed to a cantina (check) where they meet up with Han Solo and Chewbacca (sorry, this time they meet Han and Chewie THEN go to the cantina).
Then the Rebel Alliance launch a daring attack with X-wing fighters (check) which - well, if you can't see it coming by now you have issues.
Oh, I forgot - there's a father-son reveal (check).
OK. Yes, this is all done with style and pizazz and state-of-the-art effects, and the young persons I saw it with (aged ten and thirteen) were happy to go along for the ride. And it's far better than The Phantom Menace - and it's even a good film in its own right.
But part VII? More like a re-make of part IV.