RateItAll: The Opinion Network

the best in my book

Those Ewoks are freaking awesome.

A great ending to the whole series, I even love the Ewoks.

One of the best ever! Luke realizes his true destiny.

hard to rate a movie I didn't see....

IV, V and VI are the gold standard of this series except that VI is a little painful with those furry midgets running around

Looking back with clearer eyes, we can see the wooden acting and the dated special effects. . .but at one point in time, this was pure box-office dynamite. . .remember the first time you saw it in the theater and felt that rare sense of joy and excitement?

Alright, I'm gonna see if this garbage works. I'm rating this from myspace on my long awaited Star Wars compatability test. (JOY!) Anywho, Jedi ties it all up, gives a pretty kick ass duel, and gave us the greatest costume ever, the metal bikini. Five drooling stars for numbah.

Leave out the cutesie Ewoks and this one would have been a LOT better.

I was tempted to give this a 2, but I found it to be okay purely on nostalgic merits; by the time it was released, you had so much invested in the characters you wanted to see how it all would end. It ended, all right.....with a solid *thud* in most places. Where to begin? Jabba's lair, for starters: easy to find, simple to infiltrate, and poorly guarded (fine qualities for the hideout of a feared criminal mastermind, eh?); Luke goes all the way to Dagobah to find out Yoda's had it (couldn't this have been better handled via astral projection, a la Kenobi?); Leia wasn't strong enough with the Force to figure out she was tonsil-boxing (and whatever else) with her brother in the first two movies (Luke never picked up on it, either); General Solo's sabotage team runs about twenty yards away after planting the explosives to take out the Endor shield generator (but the next scene shows nearly three square miles being obliterated; makes you think they didn't get quite far enough away!); and Chewbacca's Tarzan yodel on the vine headed towards the mini-walker nearly made me walk out of the movie theater. Has only two redeeming features: Leia's slave-girl duds (mmmmmmmm.....chain mail.....), and the flight into and out of the Death Star's superstructure. An otherwise pedestrian ending to what was (and still is) a decent li'l series.

this episode in my eyes diminished the series. sure, leia wears a skimpy bikini but that can't make up for the lack of depth that return of the jedi offered. a new death star? why? couldn't george think up something better? the first mediocre star wars.