Disney and the pandering porgsistance

Rating: 3/10 (15 December 2017)

This movie solidified the Star Wars franchises position as a kids' franchise with no meaningful connection to the original movies. The movie was full of ridiculous humor and at many points it felt more like a spoof of Star Wars than the real thing. We were promised so much with Snoke and Luke, and we got nothing. The new characters are terrible, the direction they took the plot in is terrible. It seemed to me like the creators went into the movie with a checklist of "messages" they wanted to get across to the audience and then created a movie out of it, rather than carefully crafting a meaningful story. I am very disappointed as a big fan of Star Wars. Star Wars is no longer a unique, special experience, it's just another cheesy superhero movie.