Return of the Jedi (1983)

Very disappointed :(

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

As Mel Brooks proclaimed in "Spaceballs": it's "the search for more money". All questions are answered and all the villains and heroes that need to die, to finish the saga, do so and become immortal. The empire is defeated, and Hans Solo gets his girl. The Ewoks save the day, and manage to do it without upsetting anybody's prejudice. Humans make a tasty "roast beast"! The "Special Edition" with added scenes and enhanced picture and sound add a bit of "snap" to the whole thing. I still think that the Emperor was an unnecessary character and that Darth Vader was evil enough without him. Love those "AT-AT Walkers" and "Cycle Speeders"!

This for me was the weakest chapter of the original trilogy but it did what it set out to do. I have some friends who say it's their favorite; one of whom says he likes the space battle between the Rebels and the Empire. I used to like the space battle and used to watch those parts while fast-forwarding the other parts of the final battle while watching the movie. But now that I'm older I enjoy the lightsaber duels more. That for me is what Star Wars is truly about, and not just the space battles and the ground battles (like in Empire).The film gets a bad rap by many fans due to the Ewoks, while some say it's a ripoff of the first Star Wars. The latter seems a little unfair though sometimes the third chapter of a trilogy tends to mirror the first one. I used to like the Ewoks when I was younger and while I'm now a little older (and wiser) and I think they're a little silly, they're not as bad as the Gungans (see The Phantom Menace). But all in all, it's not a bad way to end the saga of the Skywalkers. There are still some better third chapters to trilogies out there (such as Toy Story 3 and Return of the King), so you might want to check those respective film sagas.

While Empire Strikes Back is by far the best in the series there is something about Jedi which is really special to conclude the original trilogy of by far one of the best franchises of all time and our heros must destroy the second death star and challenge the emperor and a personal battle of fates. What makes this entry in the series is that it further builds the universe that the other 2 movies have built up and we can see that with the begining of this movie that it picks up straight after empire and Luke,Leia,Lando,Chewie,C3P0 and R2D2 are trying to save Han from Jabba the Hutt the ganster that had Han frozen in carbonite and that for me is really good as it doesn't jump straight away rom whats happend it builds on the story already built which is some perfect film maker. Mark Hamill,Carrie Fisher,Billy Dee Williams,Harrison Ford,James Earl Jones,Anthony Daniels,Peter Maythew,Frank Oz,Alec Guinness and Kenny Baker return to reprise their roles and new to the cast was Ian Mcdiarmid who was the evil master of Vader and he was so spine chilling with his performance in this movie and he will always be one of my favorite parts of the movie. This one and all of the original trilogy will always resonate with me as growing up these would be the movies i watched it growing up and so when i saw the ewoks in Jedi it would make me happy and make me laugh and yet the serious moments would also be something i would remember and the moments between father and son between Vader and Luke for me have sticked with me and this one with all of it's twists and turns will always for me be one of the best moments of my life watching all these moments in not just Jedi but all of the orginal trilogy.

I thought this was a typical film ending for the 80's, the good guy always wins.But I thought the beginning seemed rather badly written if I'm honest. Here Luke and Leia plan to rescue Han from Jabba on Tatooine. Despite freeing Han the plan fails and Leia captured, and when Luke appears he too is captured (and dropped into th Rancor pit to die, however predictably this ends with Luke surviving the death of the Rancor) they are all sentenced to death at the Sarlac pit. This however was all part of their plan as Lando, Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2-D2 were already in place to help them and turn their execution into an escape. What kind of a rescue plan is expected to fail from the start? I can understand having a plan b just in case, but everything about this shows they knew exactly how events would unfold, why else would they place Lando, Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2-D2 in Jabba's palace. How would they get them out if Han's rescue had been successful?Now a little controvential opinion, Ewoks.Han and his team go to destroy the shield generator on Endor in order to destroy the second Death Star, however before they can set charges to destroy the base an Imperial army then ambushed them and fight against the Rebels. The fight soon turns to the Imperials advantage however the Ewoks then join the fight; using primitive catapults, trip ropes and stones they somehow defeat the Imperials and enable Han to destroy the shield generator. The Ewoks seem like they were only placed in the film as a means of ensuring victory for the Rebels, the Imperials would have defeated the outnumbered Rebels were it not for them, and the idea that such primitive weapons could defeat the Imperial troops seemed a stretch anyway.Prior to this Luke left Hans team and allowed himself to be captured and taken to the Death Star to confront Palpatine and Vader where he is forced to fight Vader, Luke bests the Sith Lord however his compassion for Vader (after he revealed himself as his father) stops Luke from killing him. Instead he throws down his weapon and faces Palpatine unarmed. Palpatine attacks Luke with his Force lightning however before he can kill Luke, Vader switchesd allegiance. Driven by love for his son Vader lifts Palpatine and throws him down a chute into space and kills him, this act however damages his life support suit and soon after he too dies. Vader seems like a very selfish man and an unreliable ally, having already turned on the Jedi in Episode III when he saw an opportunity to help himself (to save Padme) and now again to save Luke.The Death Star is then destroyed, typically just as Luke escapes with Vaders body and he holds a private Jedi funeral on Endor attended by ghost Obi-Wan and ghost Yoda (the ghost of an old man then appears and is presumably Anakin) meanwhile everyone else has a pre-fight party in the Ewok village. The remastered version is good how the head of the old man ghost is replaced with the head of Hayden Christiensen (who playes Anakin in the Prequel series, as this presumably depicts Anakin the last time he was a Jedi) But where is Qui-Gon who was hinted at being able to appear as a ghost to Obi-Wan while in hiding on Tatooine between the two trilogies? In the remastered version they also show clips of worlds across the universe celebrating the destruction of the Emperor, which is odd since word cannot have spread that fast?