My Star Wars is a Comedy

[mysid]

My husband and I took advantage of having live-in babysitters while we're on vacation and finally went to see Star Wars: Episode III last night. My sister-in-law and her husband, who'd already seen it, accompanied us to the local multiplex and went their own way to watch something else. When we met up again at the end, she asked how I liked it. I pantomimed vomitting. Actually, it wasn't that bad.

The funniest bit in the whole movie has to be Darth Vader's imitation of Frankenstein's monster as he lurches off the "slab" and moans, "NO!" My husband and I both burst out laughing for a minute or two--this was supposed to be a big emotional scene, and the emotion wasn't supposed to be amusement. I was also quite amused by Padme's frequent and elaborate costume changes. At one point, she wore four different outfits in what was clearly identified as two days. And her poor daughter Leia was stuck in the same boring white dress in the entire first movie. So unfair. (When I said this to my sister-in-law, she said that Carrie Fisher made the same point at the AFI awards the other night.) My husband and I also got a giggle out of the giant lizard Obi Wan was riding on at one point. He'd just leaned toward me and said, "Lose the lizard; it's not working for me," when Obi Wan did leap off it--but a minute later, the stupid thing was back.

When we got back to the house, I said that I liked this movie better than Episodes I and II, but explained that this was like saying, "It's better than eating dog food." Then we told the others all the little things we found amusing in the movie. (Like Yoda's hand gesture of "Bring it on!" to the Sith Lord.) My brother-in-law (who enjoyed the movie as a whole) pointed out how weird the fast pace of Padme's pregnancy was. We laughingly said that the babies matured quickly because the force was so strong with Daddy and the babies. "Super sperm!" someone exclaimed.

There were things I liked about the movie--but I'll leave that for all the other Star Wars fans to talk about. (And I do consider myself a Star Wars fan. I actually have a "Star Wars Fan Club" membership card somewhere--although it expired decades ago.) One thing I have to say I liked--Jar Jar didn't speak! Yes!

When we reached the end of trashing the movie, my other sister-in-law summed up my impressions by saying, "So your Star Wars was a comedy." That said it pretty well.

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[fantomeq.livejournal.com]

I laughed so hard at "Nooooooo!" http://vadercoaster.ytmnd.com/ has a video of Vader riding a roller coaster that uses that soundclip.