The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special

What’s surprising is how moving “The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special” ultimately becomes.

It’s funny and zippy and puts the life back in Life Day. If there was anything that could rehab the stigma of the original Star Wars Holiday Special, this is it.

It’s not a new classic, but it’s nice that Star Wars fans finally have something watchable to put on during the holiday season.

At the end of the (Life) day, “The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special” is a fun, self-contained adventure which feels a few bricks short of a full “Star Wars” load. It will keep the lockdown blues at bay for 40 minutes, but it certainly won’t cure fans’ nagging uncertainty over when the next title scrawl will be marching down the big screen.

The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special amps up that cheesiness in the best way possible, taking all the bad with the good, in a charming ode to the 1978 television special.

A new Disney+ offering that arrives on the platform on the 42nd anniversary of that other Life Day extravaganza and is mediocre in the sort of unimaginative, promo-tainment ways that have become commonplace in the modern era.

“The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special” is a studiously inoffensive mess, being both self-conscious and desperate-to-please, but also unfocused and un-funny.

Un hommage à l ensemble de la série bien construit sur le thème de Noël. Simple mais plaisant.

If they were intent on revisiting the "Life Day" concept these 42 years later, doing so under the LEGO brand was undoubtedly the right move. It allows them to fully revel in just how absurd the idea of a Star Wars themed holiday special is without having any effect on the actual continuity. For the most part it's a bunch of meaningless fluff. Cute, but unlikely to stand alongside the likes of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as your next yearly seasonal rewatch. It's worth checking out once though. Children are definitely the target audience for this special as most of the humor doesn't evolve much beyond "haha, look at this character doing a silly dance." Still, older viewers can find amusement in things like the more clever references to the series' history or how it absolutely ridicules the sequel trilogy. I'm actually surprised Disney allowed this to be made given how much it skewers their biggest contribution to the franchise. Seriously, writer David Shayne seems to harbor the same amount of disdain for J.J. Abrams' vision of Star Wars as Rian Johnson. The Rise of Skywalker receives most of the abuse here as the special goes out of its way to ignore the events of that movie despite being set after it. If you remove the silliness and non-canon nature of the project it would actually make for a better episode 9 than the one we got. The subplot of Rey training Finn to be a jedi feels like something we actually should have seen happen at some point in that trilogy and it introduces Emperor Palpatine to the mix in a far more satisfying manner than Abrams did. None of this will exactly leave you clamoring for more, but if you're a hardcore member of the fan base or a more casual appreciator with kids who share your enthusiasm you can pop this on one Christmas season and not feel like you wasted your time. It offers some genuinely funny moments while showing a willingness for the franchise to acknowledge its missteps and poke some healthy fun at them. So in a way, Life Day has kind of been redeemed here. 7.3/10

This movie is a serviceable humorous movie that caters to a lot of memes and in jokes within the universe including a time travel sequence that is so zany that I have never seen anything like it.

Głównie skierowana do młodszego odbiorcy (kto by się spodziewał), zawiera w sobie kilka fajnych żartów, ale głównie służy do przedstawienia klasycznych wydarzeń

Perfectly fine for what it is. 'The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special' is OK, not necessarily good or bad. A couple of the actors carry over from the 'Star Wars' franchise itself, though the vast majority of main stars from the aforementioned do not. The plot is split three ways in terms of how I enjoyed them. The best stuff, for me, is the bits with Palpatine and Darth Vader, Trevor Devall undoubtedly gives the best voice performance as the former. The parts with Rey, who is voiced unconvincingly and borderline irritatingly by Helen Sadler, is watchable. Lastly, the stuff with Finn & Co. is uninteresting filler. On Sadler's story in this, I did enjoy seeing them go back through the films from the main franchise - though I would've liked it more if they did it in a more clever and amusing way, à la 'The Lion King 1½' with the Pride Rock scene. At just 44mins and with the nessacary - if not a great deal of - festive vibe, it's practically impossible to dislike this... at least for me. It's also light years ahead of its 1978 predecessor, not that that's difficult mind.