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Star Wars: Holiday Special

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Brad Newsome Sydney Morning Herald 03/25/2020
Yes, it features Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, but nobody who saw this kitschy TV abomination back in 1978 was surprised that George Lucas wanted it erased from human memory. Go to Full Review
Gail Williams The Hollywood Reporter 10/03/2015
If the prospect of a two-hour Star Wars Holiday Special conjured up visions of "May the force be with you" repeated ad nauseam in your head, this show on CBS was a welcome surprise. Go to Full Review
Daniel Kraus Salon.com 08/13/2008
Yes, it was that unprecedented. Yes, it was that bad. Go to Full Review
Carson Timar ButteredPopcorn 08/28/2022
F
A complete miscalculation on what will interest and entertain the consumer, there isn't a single reason why one should give the film the time of day and truly it does deserve to be lost how it has been. Go to Full Review
Alan French Sunshine State Cineplex 12/25/2019
.5/4
You will curse god for this show's mere existence. Go to Full Review
Shaun Munro Flickering Myth 12/21/2019
2/5
The Star Wars Holiday Special is a work of such baffling insanity that every Star Wars fan deserves to watch it once - but probably only once. Go to Full Review
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AN @Asher524 Dec 29 It stinks, but there is no way it should be rated below The Acolyte, Obi-Wan Kenobi, or the Boba Fett show. It is magnitudes above any of the Star Wars drivel Disney has produced. See more Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 Dec 20 Considering by fans, cast and crew alike to be one of the worst thing to come out of the Star Wars universe and now after watching it myself hearing about it for years it is; Baffling, Boring, Awful and unintentionally hilarious all at once See more Kath S Dec 17 I don't know what to say. It's...umm....ummm... See more Ash P @AshParth May 19 Man, everything has to have a Christmas special, don't they? Or rather, anything has to have an episode or a movie that involves a holiday. In which case, how about something called Life Day for the Wookies? Yeah, this was one of the earliest of bad projects that folks have said throughout the internet when it comes to anything in the Star Wars franchise. They were right. This was bad. However, it didn't make me mad at all. No. It was more boring. I give it credit that they wanted to involve Chewbacca's family. If only I could understand what they were saying and add subtitles because I could only understand ten percent of what they were saying through body gestures. I love wookiees but hearing them making their native calls throughout ten minutes straight was starting to rub me the wrong way, sadly. There were some uncanny appearances with Han Solo, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker despite their good acting. Even just one scene with Darth Vader and that was pointless. You do have Art Carney in this, which was an okay appearance just for this holiday special. The costumes are pretty mixed for me, which they worked while in some cases, seeing some of their chompers left unimpressed. You have this one cooking channel involving this person wearing one of the most ridiculous costumes while having a funny moment with two extra arms when showing the missus on how to make a special dish for the family. Then you have papaw wookiee watching this virtual reality, which is one of the most trippiest moments ever. I don't blame him for wanting a taste of black pudding, though. I give it credit that it wants to be something, yet it ended up being a dud with a nice song at the end which the actors did admit through some interviews that they would rather do something else than doing another holiday special. I don't blame them, really. I understand why folks hated this. I didn't enjoy it because it was just boring since I had to find this on YouTube as it isn't on Disney Plus, oddly. But I digress. I'm giving this holiday special two papaw wookiee enjoying some black pudding on virtual reality out of ten. 2/10. See more ahsen k May 3 Even if it was used By Vader to torture Han in Cloud City , this was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the BOOK of Boba fett. Obi Wan and The Acolyte. These tnree Disney shows were so bad I had to add two stars more for the Holiday special to give a clarity and scale. See more Артур М Mar 18 Sure It's better than acolyte, but it's still is terrible and worse than sequels, go watch it yourself, it's free on youtube. See more Read all reviews

Movie Info

Director
Steven D. Binder
Release Date (TV)
Nov 17, 1978
Runtime
1h 37m