Review of Return of the Jedi (1983) by Kevin R — 13 Dec 2018

Great movie and great trilogy finale. One of the greatest trilogy finales ever and one of the few good trilogy finales, but this movie is still highly overrated and very flawed. It has a lot of problems. The pacing was so off, Han gets unfrozen too quickly, Luke's plan to rescue Leia and Han from Jabba was way too convoluted to be believable. The scenes with Jabba and the Ewoks were dumb, childish, weird, and cringey. I find it laughable how the Empire's army of elite troops were defeated by an army of little midget teddy bear-like creatures. It was ridiculous. It should have been an army of Wookies defeating the Empire's elite troops instead of those stupid Ewoks. That actually was originally going to happen, but George Lucas must've changed it to having Ewoks instead so he could earn more money since the Ewoks sell more toys to children than Wookies. Luke barely helped to defeat the Empire, he was mostly trying to bring Darth Vader back to the light side after figuring out that he really was his father. Lucas was too concerned about the money and selling toys than he was about the quality of the film. It was still a great movie but it still could have been SO MUCH BETTER. It had potential to be better than The Empire Strikes Back. Return of the Jedi could have been the greatest Star Wars movie, but it sadly wasn't. Overall, Return of the Jedi is a great, solid trilogy finale that is also a bit of a disappointment.

Rating: 8/10.