Originally posted by: Marvolo
Something about those scenes in Jabba's palace have always bothered me. They just seem like something from another story and don't connect with the rest of the overall story very well.

I think that's exactly right. Jedi's biggest problem, as I said elsewhere, is that it can't do it's own thing until it's taken care of the shopping list of other requirements that got dumped on it. All trilogies suffer from that in their third act - even Lord of the Rings. The Jabba's palace stuff feels out of place, because it's really the ending of Empire Strikes Back. Only once Han is back again, and Luke has filled his promise to Yoda, can we get on with the real story, and by that point we've already wasted the better part of an hour.

I like the third part of Back to the Future. The first one is my favorite, and it's the classic, but III tried its best to fight that shopping list by taking the story in a totally wild direction. Kept it fresh, and gave the series a real third act, instead of just a movie-length ending. 'A' for effort.