^ I agree.
Jabba is great (except that his mouth flapping up n’ down doesn’t match the sounds he’s making), but there are a lot of half-assed rubber masks that are too close to the camera and stupid, unbelievable designs like the blue elephant.
Of all the goofy aliens in Jabba’s palace, you pick on Max Rebo? I’ll take Max any day over the fat frog they added for the special edtion, who appears to be sitting on a crapper. 😉
Part of the problem is not that the masks were “half assed”. They were probably never meant to be seen in closeup. They are no better or worse than what was in the cantina scene.
Live action creature FX were never ILM’s forte before Jedi, and the creature shop seems to have faded away not too long after.