{"id":129140,"date":"2015-12-16T01:51:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T08:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/movie-review-return-of-the-jedi-1983.html"},"modified":"2015-12-19T18:06:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T01:06:03","slug":"movie-review-return-of-the-jedi-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/movie-review-return-of-the-jedi-1983.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;Return of the Jedi&quot; (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#39;s part of the original trilogy, so that&#39;s a good thing. But the infusion of excessive cuteness (Ewoks), and broad humor (Han) drag it down, and the psychodrama of Luke facing both Vader and the Emperor never quite gels. In my current) mind, it&#39;s the weakest of the original three (3\/5 stars).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi\/\">http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6228693304859751265\/6228693305490976226'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-2P-dEVVWHRY\/VnDDj3CkreI\/AAAAAAADe1k\/C1bOb49PcKA\/Return_of_the_jedi_old%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/iCEmzmEHNaU'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#39;s part of the original trilogy, so that&#39;s a good thing. But the infusion of excessive cuteness (Ewoks), and broad humor (Han) drag it down, and the psychodrama of Luke facing both Vader and the Emperor never quite gels. In my current) mind, it&#39;s the weakest of the original three (3\/5 stars). http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi\/ \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/movie-review-return-of-the-jedi-1983.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &quot;Return of the Jedi&quot; (1983)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Return_of_the_jedi_old5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25709,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/how-return-of-the-jedi-should-have-ended.html","url_meta":{"origin":129140,"position":0},"title":"How &quot;Return of the Jedi&quot; Should Have Ended","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Jan-12 11:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Exxxxxxcellent ... #ddtb Embedded Link How It Should Have Ended | sometimes movies don't finish the way we'd like Hey everyone! 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