Anchorhead said:

Mrebo said:

Weird that you would feel a "huge" let down after seeing the creatures in the cantina.

The puppet characters in the cantina look equally fake. The let down for me was when the fake puppets went from background characters in a scene - to main characters in the story.

Jabba looked great.

I disagree. He looked like a giant puppet being used to portray a character that was so immobile that he would have been easily killed by his own people. The way Leia did.

One of the documentaries mentioned Jabba being styled after a "fat sultan" sort of villian. He isn't as much a physical threat as the power he still wields and the loyalty he commands.

I also heard the Hutts have a great dental plan...