sms@mhtsa.UUCP (06/24/83)
As a decedent S_F watcher, the latest SW movie was a disappointing fard. The only new features were some aliens (mostly disappointing) and the sky cycles. The Orkish creatures guarding Jabba's house were cartoon imitations. Jabba itself was a combination of one of the early muppets from the first year of "Friday Night Live", and Sidney Greenstreet. ( The setting of jabba's room was reminiscent of the fat man's bar from Casablanca. ) All the space scenes are now dull, after 6 years of space-special-effects-exploitation movies. It has been mentioned that the introduction of characters was confusing, if you did not see the previous films. But even so, I got the feeling that someone was acting with a green fozzy-bear muppet in one of the scenes. NO; this film did not add anything to the genre of SF movies, but just gave children, producers, and trivial space opera boffos something to enjoy, sms [ what are the odds that the emperor has a fake hand? ]