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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Good concept, poorly executed.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

What was your favourite bit in this? Was it when Blanche out of the Golden girls poured booze into the top of a guy's head, then sung a song to that tune the band play in the Moss Eisley Cantina while cuddling a giant rat? Or was it when Chewie's wife watched a transvestite alien on television demonstrate how to cook Bantha? Or how about the bit where Chewie's elderly father in law sets himself down and watches some porn?Written and no doubt filmed during a massive cocaine blizzard in the late seventies, this film, while not even being a film, is an absolute scream to a bad movie fan. Not sure how it goes down with hardcore Star Wars fans though. I like Star Wars fine, but you've got to see this insane mash up of Star Wars, Saturday evening entertainment, cartoons, and musical numbers!The best thing about this is that it is not just a lame Star Wars spin off - it's the lengths it goes to give you brain damage! The cartoon is awful enough, but the Jefferson Starship music video is great! Visually anyway, the song is pretty bad. Chewie's son watching what looks like Cirque De Soliel on that hologram chess board. My brain! Was Godfrey Ho involved in all this? Only he can go to such lengths to insert such pointless insanity.Oh, and Carrie Fisher sing a lyrical version of the Star Wars theme tune while surrounded by tree-worshipping wookies holding strange globes. Maybe not the best way to remember her. RIP babe.

Chewbacca and Han Solo try to get home to Chewie's family to celebrate Life Day, which includes various forms of entertainment. For years i hear that the Star Wars Prequels and Indiana Jones 4 sucked because they didn't succeed on being as good as the original well i'll tell you one thing now we just found the worst project that George Lucas greenlight and nope it's not those films that i just told you it's Star Wars: Holiday Special (1978) this is a small canon (i hope so) to the Star Wars Universe where Han and Chewie try to return home with Chewie's Family to celebrate Life Day and it sounds fun doesn't it? Not at all i almost fell asleep and i wanted to shoot myself and even stop watching everything with the Star Wars Logo because this film should have never been made i want Will Smith to erase my mind right now or just have Al Pacino next to me and tell me that this should have never been seen. Although the original cast is back and they are good except Mark Hamill looking like a Barbie doll and Carrie Fisher start singing at the end which almost made my head explode i still like Chewie and Han because there's still this friendship between them but my god his family annoyed me and all this retarded commercials made the film even worse i mean the Empire just sitting there watching commercials is enough for me to hate it this film is 100 times worse than Dragonball and Batman & Robin it's basically the Ghostbusters of 2016 but instead of 2016 it was made on 1978 what a great way to ruin the fun out of all this people that saw A New Hope just one year before this mess. Please don't waste your time it's not worth it.

I agree that those first 20 minutes within the Wookiee household are 20 of the worst and most ridiculous moments in cinematic history. However, as a Star Wars fan I did find the rest of the film quite entertaining. Just like the Ewok Adventures or some Star Wars fan films, it's an extension of the Star Wars universe that we all know and love. You get to see many characters from the first film in Bea Arthur's cantina which is always cool because as a kid I loved the brief appearances by the hammerhead, devil and walrus looking guys. You get a better understanding for how the Wookiees actually live (no matter how stupid that may be) and you also get even more indications of just how evil the Empire is. Between the ransacking of homes and the constant presence on Wookiee television screens you get the idea that Lucas created the Empire as a mix between the Nazi SS and a George Orwell 1984 type of government. Because the Wookiees don't speak English and there's no translation available this really doesn't come across as a holiday special. The strange interspecies sexual overtones and the ultra evil imperials also don't add to any kind of holiday special feel either. Using the resources they had they could have made a pretty good Star Wars special, but Lucas was apparently too focused on wanting to show Wookiee home life. Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill turn in the best performances they can with the script they are given and Art Carney does a good job even if Bea Arthur and Harvey Korman do feel a bit out of place. I think most people judge this special simply from those tedious first 20 minutes. I watched the whole thing and in the end found that I'd like to watch it again even if I have to fast forward through the long opening scene in Chewbacca's home. Any person who is a fanatic for the original trilogy (the TRUE Star Wars) should find something to enjoy about this show. Granted, I couldn't give it more than 5 stars because there are so many flaws and it's just so goofy most of the time, but in the end I found it far more entertaining than any Star Wars related thing made in the 21st century...

I survived the Star Wars Holiday Special. If you've ever hear word that it's terrible, that's no exaggeration. It's a TV movie, but I use to word "movie" loosely. About 10% of it is actual coherent plot. The rest plays out more as a variety show with pointless segments and musical numbers scattered randomly throughout.The overall premise follows Chewbacca's Wookie family as they wait for him to return home for Life Day (the Wookie version of Christmas), but he is nowhere to be found. We, the audience, know that he is battling TIE fighters with Han Solo on his way home. Additionally, the Galactic Empire is searching homes for members of the Rebel Alliance.Because there's such little plot, and it's a very simple concept, it shouldn't be this hard to understand what's going on in the movie. It doesn't help that none of us speak Wookie (even the characters in the movie can't understand what they're saying). The scenes without any humans, which constitute the majority of the special, are incomprehensible and borderline unwatchable. According to writer, Bruce Vilanch, he had wanted many of these scenes cut due to the fact that the audience can't understand the Wookie language. George Lucas insisted that they remain. Turns out Vilanch was right, as it's not only incoherent, but in a holiday special that's supposed to be jovial, we can't even smile or laugh at what's happening. But I'm not sure it would matter anyway, as even the jokes that are told by humans have terrible delivery.Even the music numbers can't be looked at as a pleasant break from the insipid journey through the Star Wars universe. They're extremely plodding and lack any real character besides being hypnotic. At one point, Diahann Carroll performs some odd erotic piece which may make this the most uncomfortable holiday special in history--along with the most boring. I think when they torture prisoners they make them have to stay awake through the Star Wars Holiday Special.Lucas couldn't even get all the characters in the same room together. Every major actor's scenes are filmed remotely, except for Harrison Ford's. It's a film that is said to feature Darth Vader--even though he literally only gets 4 seconds of screen time (which I'm pretty sure was just a cut scene from A New Hope).The only highlight is an animated short halfway through that features the first on-screen appearance of Boba Fett. And that's not all, the storyline is pretty good also. It makes you wish that the whole special was just animated.The Star Wars Holiday Special wouldn't have been nearly as bad if it was only an hour maybe. But 90 minutes is just ridiculous (2 hours including commercials). And you can't say that it's even bad in a funny way. It's just flat-out painful. I love Star Wars as much as the next guy, but there's no wonder why George Lucas wanted all of these destroyed.Twizard Rating: 32