I saw the movie this weekend with my 5-year-old son. I went in with very low expectations. I've reached a point where I feel like Star Wars has moved on from where I am, so I basically have nothing to lose. And of course, if I had hated it, but my son still liked it, well, it's still an evening well spent.

You know what? It wasn't that bad. It was superficial and fun, like a guilty pleasure. I liked the action scenes, and they were actually on a more personal level than what we got in the prequels. And I enjoyed Obi-Wan - he's always a class act. Except for the look of Dooku, the animation style didn't bother me.

I would say that the trailers almost made this look worse than it was. In one trailer, Stinky burps, and Asohka (sp?) says, "My training didn't prepare me for this." That never actually happens that way in the movie.

The next morning when we woke up, my son asked to watch Star Wars. I asked him which one he wanted to watch, and he said "the one where Luke blows up the Death Star." That's my boy.

Sluggo said:
Don't forget that the PG-13 rating wasn't created until after ROTJ came out.

Not that the OT would have gotten the 13 anyway.

I still think the reason that ANH-SE was censored (two different imperial officers getting blasted in the chest) was to avoid the PG-13 rating. It's the only thing that makes sense.