Re-watching Star Wars – Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi

Last night we watched Return of the Jedi, the next movie in the Star Wars chronological timeline after The Empire Strikes Back.

This is not a review and it isn’t meant to rain on anybody’s opinion of this movie – it’s simply an attempt to articulate my own feelings about it. Your mileage may most definitely vary.

I remember going to see Return of the Jedi when it was first released and being very satisfied with how the over-arcing saga ended (or so we thought at the time). It’s the only movie of the original trilogy that I didn’t see multiple times in the theater. While it still stands head and shoulders over the prequel movies, I think it’s the weakest overall of the original three movies.

Warning! Spoilers Below (if there can be such a thing as spoilers for a movie released in 1983).

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