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Basically this plays like a Star
Wars (particularly the prequel trilogy) making-of, showing all
sorts of personnel at work on the technical side of things and giving
pointless interviews, while George Lucas seems to float through it all,
making comments that seem a bit too lifeless to not be scripted. In
between, we're treated to scenes from the movies in question. Only the
whole thing is subverted as director Damon Packard has manipulated much of
the dialogue (in an intentionally obvious way), has replaced quite a bit
of footage from Star
Wars with scenes from cheaper sci-fi fare or entirely
unrelated movies (including Ken Russell's Women in Love and Francis
Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now) to create a new context, and has
edited himself and company into several of the documentary scenes, to
completely alter them. Now the result is really a mixed bag, on
one hand some of the comedy seems too forced, and Damon Packard makes too
much of a point that he's not very fond of the CGI work in the prequel
trilogy (something I don't blame him for), but where the film succeeds is
in its choice of movies edited into it as they show a knowledge of the
larger genre, the world beyond Star
Wars. And furthermore, by putting the "documentary"
scenes of actual making-ofs into an only slightly different context,
Packard manages to unmask how hollow these scenes actually are, no real
documentary, just scenes for an advertisement. So in all, no brilliant
comedy - but good fun at least.
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