Star Wars is Fun Again

Some things — like New Coke — should never have happened.  My husband David French puts the plodding Star Wars prequels into that category.  However, he unabashedly loves the Star Wars: The Force Awakens.  Here’s what he wrote on National Review about the movie he encourages people to see.

While the old stars deliver, it wouldn’t work so well without the young trio of Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (Josh Boyega), and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). Both Rey and Finn bring a young Luke Skywalker’s sense of wonder and disbelief to the movie. For different reasons and in different ways, they’re having their own awakening, and it’s not drab and somber but rather full of joy and adventure. The villain, Kylo Ren, is excellent. He’s capable of terrifying displays of power, but he’s no Darth Vader — and he knows it.   Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/428754/star-wars-fun-again

Simply put, Star Wars is fun again. Aside from isolated moments (the first shot of Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber, most notably) the prequels took everything fun out of the original trilogy and replaced it with a combination of plodding political subplot and sappy daytime TV romance. How could any self-respecting conservative like those Jedi. They weren’t heroic warriors fighting against overwhelming odds. Instead, they were the armed warrior-monks of a glorified intergalactic U.N. Whose glorious idea was it to build an entire story arc where the good guys are actually trying to suppress the right of self-determination? The Old Republic was like the Hotel California. You could check out anytime you liked, but you could never leave.

So, he writes, “don your Jedi or Sith robes, pick the lightsaber off the mantel, and head to the theater. You won’t regret it.”

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