And so on. In fairness, this clich is endemic. If it starts right up, it must be evil. Actually, I found the charioteer imagery charming. That clich would have lent plausibility.
Big animals try to eat whole spaceships, yum.
But enough wallowing in small stuff. It happens time and again. Naturally, there are cameos by Tuskan Raiders and Jabba the Hut and every other old friend, for nostalgia's sake. Again, to be fair, the nostalgia thing has been done even worse by others. Wasted half an hour worshipping the Enterprise from the outside before we even got aboard.