Review of Robot Chicken: Star Wars (2007) by Palmer R — 02 Jul 2011

I'm a fan of Star Wars, but no fanboy. That's why this entertains me so much, because unlike other Star Wars parodies (especially the crappy Family Guy one), everything that happens here fits, to an extent, within the story that already happened.

Like I already said, not being a Star Wars fanboy but a casual fan, they would have to go to extremes to actually piss me off. For example, I like the slightly racist character Jar Jar Binks, who is hated by many Star Wars fanboys (and I'm friends with a few of them), and he's portrayed positively in this, with the original actor playing as him and everything. Adding the Robot Chicken action figure claymation to the Star Wars characters makes them slightly larger than life, and at the same time turns them from the stereotypes they invented (which is why as 2-dimensional as they can get, no one complains about Star Wars characters not being complex enough) into human beings, who occasionally screw up. Boba Fett is revealed to be a closet homosexual, which could have been offensive, yet it's actually pretty funny considering how far it could have gone. Darth Vader isn't all that bad after all, and the Emperor, that evil twisted old man who shoots lightning out of his hands, turns out to be a pretty normal guy with some anger issues. He talks casually with friends, gets mad at Vader and then has to calm him down, and in a humorous twist on how he died in the films, gets killed by losing a "Yo Mama" fight with Luke Skywalker, which is by far the funniest part of the series.

Even Star Wars creator George Lucas plays a part, getting chased down by a frenzied group of nerds and screaming "OH DEAR GOD" the whole time.

The whole thing is hilarious, even with almost no knowledge of the characters. Since most people like Star Wars, you'll like this for sure, and you'll be laughing your ass off the whole time.