Review- Star Wars Holiday Special
Why I am doing this to myself?
The Star Wars Holiday Special is technically not a movie, it was made for TV and also is awful. I mean, just awful, a real piece of shit but I'm reviewing anyway because there's only so much content in the world and I think I'm starting to test those limits. Anyway, it's set after A New Hope, entirely with Chewbacca's family. They're waiting for him to come home from a mission but at one point, Imperial forces come in and mess the place up. It's all a poor plot to give way to a series of bizarre performances by dancers and artists and some oddly out of place sketches, including one that seems to include blackface. By the way, I know I've said the plot is an excuse before but it's never been anything like this, there is no purpose to any event that happens in this film. It's all trying to show off impressive CG only it was designed to be impressive for the TV in the 70's and therefore it feels like someone is trying to force themselves into your eye. So yeah, not a good plot.
I don't know if I actually can talk about the acting here. Sure, the three main members of the cast turn up but it's for five minutes, barely that. Plus, do you remember the stuff that came out recently saying how Carrie Fisher spent most of the time filming the original trilogy on a lot of drugs? It really shows here. She looks how I felt watching this and she looks completely empty. Moving on, I suppose the actual main actors of the film are the people who came to work to get dressed up in fur suits and howl. I suppose they do that fine but when it's twenty minutes of them howling Wookie type noises with no subtitles, you are doing a thankless job at a mediocre level.
There is so much more for me to cover here but I kind of don't want to. It's just such a bizarre piece of film it is hard to actually know what to talk about. There's a softcore VR porn type bit, there's an acrobatics bit and there is an incredibly out of place cameo from 80's super group Jefferson Starship. I actually have no way to properly summarise how genuinely mental this film is. Equally, I don't really want to. The problem is that it isn't even insane in the way that The Room is where every scene is a new glimpse into the mind of a maniac. This is just a sad, meaningless insanity and I don't want any more of it.
The Star Wars Holiday Special makes the prequel trilogy look like masterpieces. It should be seen by no human and that comes from the guy who almost saw TMNT 2 and Mothers Day in the same day. This film easily gets a
The Star Wars Holiday Special is technically not a movie, it was made for TV and also is awful. I mean, just awful, a real piece of shit but I'm reviewing anyway because there's only so much content in the world and I think I'm starting to test those limits. Anyway, it's set after A New Hope, entirely with Chewbacca's family. They're waiting for him to come home from a mission but at one point, Imperial forces come in and mess the place up. It's all a poor plot to give way to a series of bizarre performances by dancers and artists and some oddly out of place sketches, including one that seems to include blackface. By the way, I know I've said the plot is an excuse before but it's never been anything like this, there is no purpose to any event that happens in this film. It's all trying to show off impressive CG only it was designed to be impressive for the TV in the 70's and therefore it feels like someone is trying to force themselves into your eye. So yeah, not a good plot.
I don't know if I actually can talk about the acting here. Sure, the three main members of the cast turn up but it's for five minutes, barely that. Plus, do you remember the stuff that came out recently saying how Carrie Fisher spent most of the time filming the original trilogy on a lot of drugs? It really shows here. She looks how I felt watching this and she looks completely empty. Moving on, I suppose the actual main actors of the film are the people who came to work to get dressed up in fur suits and howl. I suppose they do that fine but when it's twenty minutes of them howling Wookie type noises with no subtitles, you are doing a thankless job at a mediocre level.
There is so much more for me to cover here but I kind of don't want to. It's just such a bizarre piece of film it is hard to actually know what to talk about. There's a softcore VR porn type bit, there's an acrobatics bit and there is an incredibly out of place cameo from 80's super group Jefferson Starship. I actually have no way to properly summarise how genuinely mental this film is. Equally, I don't really want to. The problem is that it isn't even insane in the way that The Room is where every scene is a new glimpse into the mind of a maniac. This is just a sad, meaningless insanity and I don't want any more of it.
The Star Wars Holiday Special makes the prequel trilogy look like masterpieces. It should be seen by no human and that comes from the guy who almost saw TMNT 2 and Mothers Day in the same day. This film easily gets a
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