Wednesday, 31 January 2007

Movie Review - Star Wars 2 or 5


As a keen film fan I can share my insights. I watch the films so you don't have to. Or something.

Just to clarify, re:title, this is the more recent one, from longer ago in the film, or sooner I guess, being the future.

Lots of aliens and space ships and dense meteor storms and robots. Laws of physics seemingly suspended. Bizarre huge Roman gladiator shoot outs with hundreds of robots and goodies with lightsticks.

This film is mostly let down by the ridiculous pear scene, wherein the young bloke and the woman sit down to a meal of, er, 1 pear each, a whole pear mind you, not the tinned stuff, and proceed to attempt to eat the pears with knife and fork. I know this is the far future, but even so you cannot eat a whole pear with a knife and fork, I won't believe that. I can accept the bending of the laws of physics, I am sure they were in deep space or another dimension or whatever, but the pear thing stretched it all too far.

Also I was surprised that Jedi people were not forward-thinking enough to take a kagoul with them in case of rain.

All in all I can only recommend this if you are a big fan of all the star trek films prior to (or after?) this. Otherwise stick with the lego version.




1 comment:

mister_guts said...

I've seen you eat spare ribs with a knife and fork, that's just as ridiculous if not more so.