Robot Chicken Star Wars 0
“Yo Momma so stupid she spent all day saying ‘Am not!’ to R2!”
By Jeremy Azevedo
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The Robot Chicken Star Wars special was just released on DVD, strangely a full six months after the corresponding Family Guy Star Wars special was released on DVD and a whole year after Robot Chicken Star Wars’ original airdate. |
Not that all this matters really, as the subject matter being lampooned here is roughly thirty years old and thusly not particularly time-sensitive.
It never ceases to amaze me how fully Star Wars has permeated popular culture to such a degree that there is even anything left to say about it today. But something about Star Wars just lends it an evergreen status that is taken full advantage of here by Seth Green and the cast of Robot Chicken.
Although the runtime is short, Robot Chicken Star Wars manages to pack more laughs in to its 23 minutes than most comedies get in two hours. I caught myself doing that annoying thing people sometimes do in which you loudly repeat a line that just happened to the person next to you, as if they hadn’t just heard it five seconds ago, my obnoxious laughter smothering the next joke. So really it seemed like at least 35 minutes considering all the times I had to rewind back to the previous scene.
The special features on the Robot Chicken Star Wars DVD are a lot of fun, particularly if you have any interest in how the show is written and animated. If you’re not at all interested in the special features, you might find RCSW more of a rental than a purchase, were it not for the fact that it was so reasonably priced. If you are a Star Wars fan, or a Robot Chicken fan, or especially if you are a fan of both, just buy it already you cheap bastard.
