Finally saw this movie.

When they announced it, I was sure it was a terrible idea. After the movie came out, I was surprised to hear that it might be good. Last night, I was delighted to discover that it is good! Some of the dialogue was clunky, especially towards the start of the movie, and the music was just okay, but those are just about my only complaints. I found Beckett and Qira both really interesting, and am actually hoping for a sequel with Qira as villain. I enjoyed L3, but Rio the 4-armed monkey pilot was maybe my favorite. Glover was great as Lando, Han was pretty good, and at no time have I ever noticed that the new Chewie was not Chewie. The action scenes were all really fun, and we finally got to see a lot of the stuff that we knew existed in the SW Universe but hadn’t actually seen (Imperial Army doing stuff, Kessel, Corellia). There were a lot of nods to the EU (Sabacc, Corellia, Kessel Run, Han’s Imperial days, swoop gangs, Teras Kasi), but not in a clunky way (i.e. I smiled but my wife didn’t even notice them), which is perfect. Other notes: The aquatic worm crime boss was pretty cool, even if you could tell it was a puppet (but what a puppet!), and Maul was unnecessarily eye-rolly.