This film is to Star Wars what Airplane! was to disaster movies

Rating: 2/10 (16 December 2017)

Quite simply put...it is a spoof, a parody.
I think it would be safe to say that The Last Jedi is 85% comedy/15% sci fi.
I have no problem with comic relief in a serious film as long as the laughs emerge smoothly within a particular screenplay and do not interfere so heavily with the story that the audience begins to wonder just exactly what the hell they paid good money to see.
Water squirts out of Finn's suit at the beginning?! Leia is blown out into space but does not die I guess because she is strong with the Force; or maybe she is just displaying her new superhero abilities?! Snoke is killed by a light saber sitting right next to him?! Snoke's background is never explained. I am assuming the reason for his death is because the screenwriter was either too lazy or too damn dumb to outline any kind of history?! Same can be said for the number one question that has floated around every film goer's mind for the past 24 months...Rey's parents. Every individual fan on the entire planet Earth has forked over their highly detailed theories surrounding this question...hmmm...then forked over some serious cash to find out the answer. What the answer actually (get a grip folks) just happens to be is the one thing nobody ever considered: The screenwriter is too lazy or too damn dumb to care one way or another. She's "nobody"?! But wait, low and behold, the laughs are most certainly plenty; Luke throwing the light saber over his shoulder?! Luke "training" Rey, her eyes are closed, she reaches out (with her hand), Luke toys with her with a blade of grass on her fingers; that was just NOT what Luke meant when he said reach out (this was actually one of the funniest highlights)?! Finn tries to fly dead on into a certain very big badass weapon only to be stopped by what apparently is Finn's new squeeze (some oriental girl he kinda sorta hooked up with midway through the film, I guess she fell madly in love with him in record breaking time because they shared a tiny Harry Potter style adventure riding these ultra weird gigantic horse/donkey/rabbit/giraff creatures...that were from a race track...outside of this space casino........its a subplot........I think)?! Chewy has a new buddy in the Falcon that is about the size of a pigeon. Yes the pigeon thing is along for the ride?! Oh yeah, Luke rather spectacularly takes on an entire gunline of what looks like a slightly different design of Imperial Walkers from Empire Strikes Back, yes the character of Luke Skywalker is most definitely living it up as a full blown sarcastic laser sword weilding stud puppet, but wait, there is a twist, he's not REALLY there. He presumably is casting his image from his lonely little island, then he, I guess dies?! Yoda also makes a quick cameo, sets a tree on fire, burning some choice pieces of ancient Jedi written word. Afterwards our favorite Jedi master breaks out into a strangely wicked array of laughter that for some oddball reason reminded me of the Emperor?!
This film is a comedy. The comedy is literally equal to something you would see in a special features outtakes of just about any movie you purchase on disc. A whole bunch of bloopers and outtakes edited together with some action scenes.
.....Speaking of parodies there was one more thing I forgot to say in my review so I came back to submit a small revision. Some of the laughs in this spoof actually work and some simply miss the target but there was also some that seem to be delivered from the heart. Laughs that you can't help but to thank the Director for being nice enough to shine a light on true comedic nostalgia. There was, undeniably, one scene specifically in this barrel of a million laughs that caught me completely off guard. At one point we see a close up of what looks like a ship landing, then there is a much wider shot of droids holding irons, ironing the bad guy's uniforms (HA HA HA...HEE HEE HEE...PRETTY FUNNY). For about twenty minutes I was thinking, "...an iron, why an iron, why an..."(then it hit me). Hardware Wars. I hadn't seen it in over thirty years. I had totally forgotten about it. The 1978 spoof Hardware Wars?! After the movie I went on Youtube to check out some hilarious piece of history. It's probably the funniest Star Wars spoof ever made. If you haven't seen it then I highly recommend it. Yes my childhood has been truthfully resurfaced, it is just as funny now as it was way back in the day. Far more entertaining than this BIG HUGE "epic". So.....I DID get something out of Last Jedi.
I can't wait for IX. I KNOW I will be just on the edge of my seat.