Binding: DVD
Format: NTSC
Theatrical Release Date: November 17, 1978
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - When Hell Freezes Over
Don't bother clicking on email when this becomes available. It will be a cold day in hell before George Lucas puts this "special" out on DVD. He has noted on several occasions that he would pay good money to make sure every bootleg copy of this program is destroyed.
I don't even think this is considered canon in the Star Wars universe.
Rating:  - Poor quality, Great fun
I really love the Holiday Special. Yes, the quality of the production is poor, and seeing Carrie Fisher sing can be painful; but the upside is the use of characters and the cartoon. This episode led to so many ideas in the future of Star Wars. The Wookie home world of Kashyyk, Boba Fett, and deeper insight into individual background characters. This is a must see if you are a Star Wars fan. If you're not a huge fan of Star Wars at least go check out the cartoon. It's less than 10 minutes long, but gives a nice introduction of Boba Fett.
Rating: - The Best Part of the Original Quadrilogy
The Star Wars Holiday Special is a sadly forgotten classic. The epic storyline is primarily concerned with Chewbacca trying to make it home in time for Life Day, but at its core the film is a metaphor for the common man's attempt to make a better world for his family in the face of corrupt and uncaring universe. Parallels to 1984 are envisioned by the Empire occupying their house and manhandling their property.
This classic also allows us insight into the supposedly gruff character of Han Solo, who reveals a tender side in his relations with Chewbacca's family and his crying when Princess Leia sings the lyrics to the Star Wars main theme.
Rating: - educational
This is what I call "anti-art". There is talent here, and there is ambition. There is also of a large sense of WTF?
Something went terribly wrong with this idea, but it was bulldozed through the actors, the cameras, the direction, the producers, the network, and of course, George Lucas.
Along the way, something unique was created.
Film students should see this film in order to process ambition, ideas, conception and execution. A "what went wrong" book could be culled out of this production, if Lucas wasn't paying off people to keep their mouths shut.
It's not unwatchable, but the dropped jaw you get every five minutes is a bit distracting.
Rating: - Revel in 70's cheese!!! I LOVE STAR WARS!!!
OK, even though many reviewers find sitting through the Star Wars Holiday Special pure torture, I just recently watched Paul Lynde's Halloween Special and know exactly of the cheesiness that you point out in regard to the Star Wars Holiday Special. However, as a Star Wars fan and a child of the 70's who has recently developed an extreme case of nostalgia for my childhood, I would love to see this again. (I might add that, as cheesy as the Paul Lynde Halloween Special is, it was the only Halloween show that I watched this year & I will be watching it again next year, probably more than once). I recall great love for this special and realizing that it was an extra special treat for those of us too poor to enjoy Star Wars inside the theater. Furthermore, it was a special treat for providing additional info about the Star Wars universe not available on the big screen. So I ask that reveiwers not knock the Holiday Special so much. Otherwise, many of us who would wish to place it amongst our DVD collection along with the Ewok TV movies will be waiting eternally.
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