The Star Wars Holiday Special

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Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 17, 1978
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4.4

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  1. ThatCooperGuy
    Sep 4, 2015
    0
    I decided to watch it with the RiffTrax commentary, but that didn't help anything. I got about 50 minutes in when suddenly all the power in my neighborhood went out, sparing me anymore of this travesty. Thanks God...
  2. Pixarlover
    Mar 4, 2013
    0
    If you are one of the millions if not, billions of Star Wars fans out there, then show how much you love the franchise and stay the hell away from The Star Wars Holiday Special. People can still hate all they want on the prequels, but they will never fall down to this level of The prequels at least had stuff going on, even if it was a headache to watch at times. This is A COMPLETE HEADACHE!
  3. MonsieurEames
    Jan 23, 2013
    0
    An absolute abomination to Star Wars. The dialogue is stupid, the jokes are lame, there's barely any action in it, and there are endless scenes of just wookies growling at each other. Yeah, it's that bad. A solid zero.
  4. Tata
    Mar 19, 2011
    0
    If you're not a fan of Star Wars and see this, you'll never watch or play Star Wars again. If you are a fan, your childhood gets murdered. If anyone hated the prequels and sees this, that person will wonder why they didn't receive Oscars. Don't watch this or your eyes or ears may start to bleed.
  5. gameguardian21
    Jun 19, 2016
    0
    What the **** did I just watch? I sat through the whole thing on YouTube. This seriously makes the phantom menace look more watchable by comparison. This is probually the worst movie of all time. All you will see is porn, baking instructions, wookie kids flying toy x-wings, dancing porn, and god afull singing that makes frozens music look good.
  6. BrendanD
    May 16, 2015
    10
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  7. steelreserve
    Apr 21, 2015
    10
    I cant wait for part 2 this is George Lucas at is best just like when he directed Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; truly a diamond in the ruff. Don't listen to these naysayers who probably never even watched the full thing as it picks up halfway through with Harrison Ford's performance. It is part of my family tradition to gather around and watch this every Christmas, definitely one of my allI cant wait for part 2 this is George Lucas at is best just like when he directed Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; truly a diamond in the ruff. Don't listen to these naysayers who probably never even watched the full thing as it picks up halfway through with Harrison Ford's performance. It is part of my family tradition to gather around and watch this every Christmas, definitely one of my all time favs. Its gonna be hard for JJ Abrams to top this, he should take notes.… Expand
  8. robertoiglesias
    Sep 1, 2019
    2
    What is this crap? I'll tell you what it is. It was something I watched it on YouTube and I almost hated Star Wars after this. It was painful to watch.
  9. Jk9785
    Feb 28, 2017
    0
    And here I thought Star Wars couldn't get worse than Attack of the Clones. This is an abomination, not just to Star Wars, but to filmmaking in general.
  10. Ordeaux
    Oct 26, 2017
    0
    This sucks George Lucas is right THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS THIS SUCKS
  11. bw14916
    Jan 21, 2018
    0
    The Star Wars Holiday Special is painful to watch. It is based around a wookie family that doesn't speak English and doesn't give them subtitles, leaving you with no idea what is going on. A total disaster that most Star Wars fans try to forget.
  12. TheQuietGamer
    Jul 6, 2021
    1
    Imagine being a kid in 1978. Star Wars just took over the world the year prior and left you desperately wanting more. So when you catch wind there's going to be a new holiday special that features the actual cast from the movie that's going to be broadcasted straight to your living room for free? Why, that's a bonafide Christmas miracle! You anxiously await the big day with bated breathImagine being a kid in 1978. Star Wars just took over the world the year prior and left you desperately wanting more. So when you catch wind there's going to be a new holiday special that features the actual cast from the movie that's going to be broadcasted straight to your living room for free? Why, that's a bonafide Christmas miracle! You anxiously await the big day with bated breath and when it finally arrives this turd starts playing. It's a wonder the franchise didn't die right then and there.

    Things start off deceptively good with Han Solo and Chewbacca dodging fire from Star Destroyers in the Millennium Falcon before that classic Star Wars theme starts playing and the screen cuts away to words that are imbedded in the minds of every fan "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." It's hard to not get chills and you just know you're in for a good time. At least that's what you think. Next thing you know you're in a treehouse on Kashyyyk with Chewie's Wookie family awkwardly growling at each other and it is BOOOOORING. Unfortunately, this where the majority of the special takes place.

    Every now and then someone like Carrie Fisher or Mark Hamill will show up for a brief cameo, or we'll get to see Harrison Ford shoot down some TIE fighters for a few seconds, but for the most part the only times we're allowed to get away from these annoying and unintelligible walking carpets is when one of the bizarre variety show segments is taking place. These are usually either extremely misguided attempts to be funny that wildly miss the mark (and end up disturbing the viewer more than anything), or an overly long musical performance. The only one that's any good is the animated short that introduced audiences to the cooler-in-appearance-than-he-ever-actually-ended-up-being Boba Fett and features an art style reminiscent of 1981's Heavy Metal and Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars series. Everything else is dull, borderline painful, and frightening.

    About the only thing this special gets right is the production quality. The sets, special effects, and costumes are darn near on the same level as the movies. Which is to say they blow away anything else that was on TV in the '70s. Showing that even at its lowest point Star Wars NEVER phoned it in when it came to visuals.

    Of all the weird, shoddy products that have been crapped out onto the market so that this undeniable gold mine of a property can be exploited for every seemingly endless cent possible, this is by far the worst. It's hard to really put into words what makes it so awful because a lot of this has to be seen to be believed. Suffice to say, there are some corners of the Star Wars that should have never have been explored and the Wookie's seasonal "Life Day" was one of them. I don't even understand what the whole Life Day thing was supposed to be after watching this anyways.    … Expand
  13. JPK
    Dec 27, 2019
    0
    Laughably Godawful
    The Star Wars Holiday Special is so awful that it’s a masterpiece of awfulness.
  14. iMaxPlanck
    Dec 26, 2018
    1
    This body of work is proof that something can be so wretchedly awful that it becomes timeless. The hilarity of the fallout and negative criticism following the SWHS was the best thing ever to come from this. Listen to the Stuff You Should Know podcast episode on this masterpiece; it's hilarious.