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Chewie, We're Getting the Band Back Together!

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My Review of Star Wars 7: The Search for Luke (mild spoilers) * Reboots! Reprises! Do-overs! Homage a trois! * Drunk Nekkid Vegas Weekend Spawn of George Clooney and Erik Estrada! * DNVWS of forgotten Backstreet Boy and Severus Snape! * DNVWS of Yoda and Sy Snootles! (^ Okay, I dunno about that one. Somewhere. Probably.) * Andy Serkis in mega-budget deleted scenes from "The Wizard of Oz"! * Winner of the "We Need a Young R2D2" casting call! * Sly reference to trash compactors! * More chuckly inside jokes! * Renewed non-ironic misuse of "parsecs" to stoke astronomy grammar nerd outrage! * More Joe Schmo-looking X-wing fighter pilots for the Resistance! (^ Wouldn't have been suprised to see Randy Quaid.) * Desert planet that isn't Tatooine! * Ice planet that isn't Hoth! * Green planet that isn't Endor! (^ Yay, no Ewoks!) * Less interplanetary politics, more intrafamily shenanigans! * Better script! Better back stories! Better dialog! ...