prodavidbro
This is a pretty ok sequel i quite liked it, the scene with the taun taun guts made me really hungry for hoth rations though.... anyway i really liked the relationship established between chewiebaka and c3p00, could there be romantic undertones? my main gripe with this film is that everybody is mean to the robot c3p00, he is the only smart one in this film. ;) anyways i really liked the fact about dantwoeeen being in both movies and it brings it very GOOD touch and i also like the untouched relationship between dart vart and the luke skywalaker in the near end of the film, lots of tension but you know what kind ; ) since he revealed himself to be luke's lover after chopping arm off other than that it was an already ok movie and great follow up cheers : )
Nominahorn
I just finished re-watching all six Lucas-era Star Wars films in episode order (I-VI) with the commentary and want to give my reviews of each film. Let me preface by saying that I am a lifelong Star Wars fan who grew up with the original trilogy and literally have no memory of a time in my life before SW. As such, I am not going to be totally unbiased in my reviews, but I will try to be somewhat objective.Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, Han, Luke, and Leia are now all important leaders and heroes in the Rebel Alliance, which is hiding on the barely-habitable ice planet of Hoth. The Empire eventually finds their base and attacks it, scattering the rebels around the galaxy, with Luke going to Dagobah to be trained by Yoda, and Han, Leia, Chewie, and the droids playing cat-and-mouse across the sector with Vader and the Imperial fleet before finally being captured at Cloud City on Bespin. There, Han is frozen in carbonite to be sent to Jabba the Hutt, and Luke, attempting to rescue his friends, is forced into a confrontation with Vader for which he is not ready and which will forever change his life.This is the most critically-praised of the SW movies, for reasons I only partially understand. As a kid this was always my least favorite of the movies, probably because it's very talk-y and there are no big space battles. As an adult, I've come to appreciate it a lot more due to the character development and its slightly more mature take on SW, but it's still definitely not my favorite of the saga. THE GOOD-This is the first movie (both in my viewing order and in the order made) not directed by George Lucas, and because of that, this is also the best movie by far for dialogue. Irving Kershner and the actors rewrote a lot of the lines on the set, and as a result the banter between Han and Leia and Lando is generally good and for once the characters talking is a highlight rather than a lowlight.-Assisted by the above point, this movie is great in the character development realm. Not only in terms of Han, Leia, and Luke, but also the supporting characters like Chewie and the droids.-Boba Fett and the Slave I-"Apology accepted, Captain Needa." You can almost see Hayden Christensen's malicious sneer as Vader says that line.-I gained a lot of respect for Kershner while listening to the commentary. He had his own spin that he wanted to do on SW, but he also had great reverence for what Lucas had done in ANH and he made sure to be faithful to the spirit of that movie in every way possible.THE BAD-Hate, hate, HATE that they replaced Boba Fett's voice with the actor who plays Jango in AotC. The original Fett voice actor had an awesome menacing, gravelly voice and the new voice sounds pathetic by comparison.-I'm not a big fan of stop motion animation and there is a lot of it in this film. The AT-ATs look fine, but the tauntauns do not. However, the closeups of the animatronic tauntauns look incredible, so it evens out a bit. THE UGLY-Apparently the Falcon is able to reach a different planetary system without hyperdrive. No indication is given of distance or how long that took, but we know that that Hoth is on the outer rim where stars are far apart, so most likely any trip that took less than decades would require near-lightspeed velocity that would have some severe relativistic repercussions. Considering Luke seemed to do quite a lot of training during that time, it's possible there is an unacknowledged time lapse of several months, but certainly not years.-I am forced to wonder what Vader's real plan was. We know he wants to overthrow Palpatine and that he wants to use Luke to do so, but he repeatedly says that he is planning on bringing Luke to the emperor. Was he just saying that for show, all the while planning on smuggling Luke away somewhere secret until he could convince him to join hist plot against Palpatine? Anakin already saw how Palpatine would gladly cast aside an old, less powerful apprentice (Dooku) for a younger and more powerful one (himself), so there's no way he would be stupid enough to actually deliver Luke to him. Doing so would be signing his own death sentence. Yet he inexplicably does that exact thing in the next movie and then looks shocked when Palpatine does to him exactly what he did to Dooku. So maybe Anakin is really just that stupid? Who knows.
albunax
Not just the best Star Wars movie, it is the best movie of all time. This movie is more darker than ANH and ROTJ. Yoda and Vader arr the best characters and my second best lightsaber duel is in this one. And not but definetly not last. Luke i am your father beats everything else.
Torrin-McFinn77
I can understand that many fans love this film, but for me it's the second-best of the Star Wars films (with A New Hope as number one in my opinion) and it's one of the best sequels. I praise this film as having the best soundtrack and the best battle sequences. Plus we get some new faces in new and exotic locations. And that revelation (you'll see what I mean). From what I heard, this was the least successful film of the saga but it's still good as the secondary film. And that lightsaber duel between the main hero and the main villain. I recommend watching A New Hope first just to see how everything starts, then watching this. I should warn you, it gets a little dark, but it's nothing too scary.
