This flick tries to answer the flaming question . . .

Rating: 8/10 (30 December 2017)

. . . "Do holograms dream of shimmering sheep?" After surviving Mr. Ren's twenty-one hundred gun salute, Luke Skywalker's astral projection seems pretty stumped about what to do for its next trick. Blow up a Death Star? No, that would fill Hyperspace with too much needless debris. Take over the wheel of the Millennium Falcon from Han Solo's icy grip? No, again, the chicks have beaten him to that assignment (though it could plausibly pass as a Wookie now to sit in the copilot's seat). Just hang out and chill with Yoda? Wrong again that would be. It's as if Dorothy has returned to Oz, only to find that the Cowardly Lion has died from old age, the Tinman has one foot in his grave, and the Scarecrow's coming down with Alzheimer's. Sounds pretty grim, Huh? Maybe the Disney folks can find a way to monetize Youth. With Today's CGI, why can't they hire fresh young blood to say the 5,132 different words making up 99% of all movie scripts while performing the 78 basic Screen Movements and 41 possible facial expressions in front of a green screen? Then, by copyrighting these exclusive and versatile young talents forever, they'll have stars just as durably ageless and incorruptible as Steamboat Willie (aka, "Mickey Mouse").