The reviews are in: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ recaptures the magic

Sometimes my colleagues figure that I haven’t seen this movie or that because of my age (I’m 26 but not the youngest in the newsroom).

“I do think some fans blow it out of proportion, as the idea of jedi as a religion is a little stupid, but I’m just here to see if J.J.Abrams and Disney can make this franchise good again”. I like Harry Potter, romantic comedies and the occasional box-office hit.

Reader Melissa Papp says she and her boyfriend made a decision to reference Star Wars with her Christmas photo for family and friends this year.

Richard, from Wimbledon, London, said: “I wish I had been able to take the ticket back the first time because I am a Star Wars fan”. Heaven help us if they don’t: Strip Star Wars of its often striking images and its highfalutin scientific jargon, and you get a story, characters, and dialogue of overwhelming banality, without even a “future” cast to them: Human beings, anthropoids, or robots, you could probably find them all, more or less like that, in downtown Los Angeles today. “They’ve literally never seen it – they’ve never seen people lined up around the block waiting to get in, waiting to buy tickets just to get in and see a “Star Wars” movie”.

Discussing the weirdest thing she’s ever seen her face used to promote at a press conference for “The Force Awakens” in London on Thursday morning (17.12.15), Carrie said: “A shampoo bottle, because you can twist your off your own head!”

“Entertainment Weekly” gave the movie a B+. “They don’t notice it. The same goes for gender issues”. Obviously that isn’t the case with these movies. This is the work of a talented mimic or ventriloquist who can just about cover for the fact that he has nothing much to say.

Tom Atkinson, curator of the Star Toys Museum in Linthicum (which he runs out of his house, tours by appointment), plans to show up in his Jedi robes (the same ones he wore for an MPT piece about his awesome collection of “Star Wars” toys that aired a few years back). “And I loved the feeling that I got”.

Star Wars fans were left disappointed last night after the midnight George Street screenings were reportedly evacuated.

But I digress. I popped in Episode IV and went into my movie-watching experience knowing next to nothing.

I shouldn’t – and won’t – talk about what any of them do for the film’s 135 minutes.

“Luke realizes that there’s actually a person under [the suit]-spoiler alert, his father -and that there’s actually humanity that can be touched in there”, says Mr. Voivod. But I didn’t know what a Wookiee was or what C3PO looked like or if Yoda was good or bad. I wish that Lucas had had the courage of his materialistic convictions, instead dragging in a sop to a spiritual force the main thrust of the movie so cheerfully ignores.