Curious - why do people dislike the rathtars?
To me it just felt like a comedy skit halfway through the movie. I never got the feeling any of our heroes were in any real trouble, and the threat of the space pirates was nullified by the monsters.
Plus their design… I dunno. I don’t want to say they ‘didn’t feel like Star Wars’ because that’s not strictly true (trash compactor creature, sarlaac etc) but something about them just felt like they belonged in a different movie… I can’t put my finger on it.
The rathars haven’t bothered me as much on subsequent viewings, but the first time I watched TFA I was like… “could do without this scene.”