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It cuts a few corners on plot in order to push the viewer first-hand into every corner, crash, and leap of the flawlessly constructed action. It's as visceral a movie experience as any action movie has ever created.

Side note: Anyone who rates this movie below a 5 either doesn't understand how number scales work or doesn't understand how to critique a movie in terms of actual cinematic elements. Actual Review: This movie is weird, in that it combines goofy humor, bizarre characters, and painful loss against the background of some ofthe most beautiful cinematic landscapes in movie history. In other words, it's a lot like the Empire Strikes Back, where a confused college-aged kid straps a green goblin to his back and tromps around a swamp. When Yoda and Luke first meet in Empire, Yoda steals a granola bar from Luke's supplies and wrestles with R2D2, basically acting like a spoiled brat. Real serious! In Empire, Han, C-3PO, Chewbacca, and Leia basically crack jokes through 1/3 of the movie as they take on famously stupendous odds from scene to scene. The shock of seriousness and silliness juxtaposed in great Star Wars movies has been lost on the great number of persons who are critiquing the Last Jedi for being too funny. If you have a single, brash star pilot attacking an entire fleet, you really think that dude isn't gonna add a little levity? Humor has always been a small resistance's weapon against great tyranny. Study history (or look around at the world today). And, at its core, this is a movie about what it means to be a rebel against great odds. From scene to scene, Rian Johnson shows--with great heart, jaw-dropping visuals, and genuinely new ideas in a world rotting with copycats--what it means to take on great evil with courage, wit, and a few dedicated friends. There are some ideas that miss, but that's what happens when you try out so many new ideas. When the ideas do land, this movie splits your mind in two at light speed.

Super meh. Kids will most likely enjoy it, but only about 1 in 4 jokes really land, the animation is bland, and the primary characters are sentimentally cute but far from dynamic. The way they talk about and perceive their friendship is more interesting than their actual friendship. "Uranus" humor is at the core of their friendship and, in large part the movie.

It has the funniest and smartest dialogue of the series. It has wonderful chemistry between the actors. It's beautiful to look at. And Chewbacca finally gets some respect. At the same time, Abrams certainly has established himself more as a perfecter of pop culture more than an innovator of it. In some ways this is impressive, and I do think you could make an argument that this film's parts are better than the elements of the films it rather brazenly cribs. And it doesn't just crib A New Hope. SPOILER ALERT: Finally, especially for those who have reacted with extreme negativity to the derivative themes and plot elements, it is worth considering the scene in which the Resistance plans its attack on the whatever the heck its called Death Star Planet Starkiller Ha Yes Seriously. The dialogue in that scene is shockingly confident with self-parody. The movie knows what it's doing.. It does it with extreme confidence and a wink. And it works. It's basically Han Solo's method put to film.

Perhaps the most honest cinematic portrayal of the experience of being a human parent is this cartoon about werewolf kids. The drawn characters hold more authentic life than 99% of live action movie counterparts. It's also visually gorgeous.