Review of LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace (2011) by Wes S — 06 Dec 2011

The premise of this short is that Yoda is taking a group of younglings from the Jedi Temple on a field trip to the Galactic Senate. However, he soon notices that the group of students has a tag along, a certain youngster he has a hard time getting his hands on! Further complicating matters is a plot by Darth Sidious to have his assassin, Asajj Ventress, bomb the Galactic Senate at the same moment the field trip is passing through!! The adventure that unfolds is a fast paced and funny affair, taking our heroes to such familiar worlds as Hoth and beyond.

And, I caught on to this pretty early, but the mysterious tag along has a certain secret identity that we can all appreciate. This was a pretty good film, short but sweet. Of course taking place in the Lego universe means it is a delight on the eyes, all those fantastic bricked creations in Star Wars format!! And it's funny too, just like all of the other various Lego media outlets usually tend to be.

My wife's mom was down last weekend and unfortunately the two women folk were talking quite loudly during the showing, so James and I didn't get to pay as close attention to this movie as we would have liked, so I'm trying to find it on DVD so we can watch it again whenever we wish.

So far that's proving harder than I originally thought it would be though . . .