OK so I saw the movie with my 11 year old son this morning. As always after a new Star Wars movie I need to let it percolate before deciding how much I like or dislike it. However at this point I think I really like this one. There are only two things that annoy me about this movie 1) The Mary Poppins Leia in space which is just ridiculous looking and 2) Luke doesn’t get off the island and join the adventure. I would have loved to have seen Luke rediscover his old self earlier and getting off Ach-To and going on a mission rather like Obi Wan does in ANH or Luke himself does at Jabbas palace in ROTJ.

There are a couple of bits that I think have been harshly criticized in some of the reviews so far, the Porgs, they are hardly in the movie and not in any meaningful way and I actually think the Yoda scene is pretty good we get the original Yoda personality back from Empire, not boring Yoda from the Prequels and while not exactly matching Yoda from Empire appearance wise I actually think it’s the closest yet.

I guess most importantly my son loved it and was straight out with the Star Wars lego when we got home.

Plus we should get force ghost Luke in episode 9!