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Robot Chicken: Star Wars

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4 star:		(15)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I watched this DVD today and laughed as much or more as the first time I saw this show on Adult Swim. This DVD has a number of features to recommend it:
- Two hours of extra features, including deleted scenes, commentary, animation meeting, panel presentations, alternate audio and more.
- Terrific presentation of the original show. It even sounds as though the music to dialogue level has been adjusted on the "Empire On Ice" sketch so that the hilarious lyrics to the songs are much more audible and clear than they were when originally shown on TV.

At less than $10, this DVD is absolutely worth it. A great entertainment value for the price. Even the blurbs on the back of the DVD case are entertaining.

Anyone who's watched Robot Chicken knows that creator Seth Green and his crew are big time Star Wars geeks, which makes this marriage of Star Wars and Robot Chicken all the more sensible. Robot Chicken: Star Wars is a half-hour special of shorts and skits that pay wonderful, hilarious homage to the phenomenon that is Star Wars, by poking fun at characters and memorable scenes from entire series. The visual gags and blink-and-you'll-miss-them moments are incredibly funny, and the voice talent assembled (including Green, Seth MacFarlane, Mark "Luke Skywalker" Hamil, Ahmed "Jar-Jar Binks" Best, Donald Faison, Hulk Hogan, Malcolm McDowell, Joey Fatone, Breckin Meyer, Conan O'Brien, James Van Der Beek, and even George Lucas himself in a hilarious bit) is great as well. There are some old bits from the previous two seasons of the series included here (such as President Dub-ya's lightsaber battle with Abe Lincoln) among the newly shot footage, with the only real downside of this special being that it ends. However, this DVD release is still worth picking up thanks to the assortment of extras included, which feature interviews, trailers, and discussions of how the whole thing came together. All in all, Robot Chicken: Star Wars is a sheer blast, and even if you're only a fan of one or the other, you'll surely enjoy this.

From the Adult Swim forums, the list of extras are supposed to include:

* Chicken Nuggets (Sketch by Sketch Video Commentary)
* Animation Meeting
* On-Air Bumps
* Trailers
* Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
* Deleted Scenes
* Alternate Audio
* Time Lapse Sequences
* Photo Gallery
* STAR WARS Celebration IV Convention Panel Presentation
* Production Design Featurette
* Episode Commentary - more than two hours

Let me qualify this by saying I've yet to get my copy of this DVD so I cannot comment on any extras, if there even are any.

The review is purely for the content, about 30 Robot Chicken shorts that will leave hard core Star Wars fans rolling in the aisles.

I give this 5 stars only for the Star Wars fan, because the price of admission here is a bit steep for a DVD clocking in at just under half an hour and one that has already aired the Cartoon Network. Casual viewers think of this as a 3 star product, best rented before deciding to buy. And it is certainly not for children.

But for the fan, the price is right and it is a must own for your collection, nestled securely next to your copy of Blue Harvest. The quality of these sketches are much more consistent than the normal hit or miss affair we've come to expect from Robot Chicken. They were done for the fans, and that simple fact shines through in all of the gags and inside jokes. Heck, creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich even got George Lucas to play himself at a Star Wars convention -- a la William Shatner on SNL long ago. Other notable voice talent includes Mark Hamill, Hulk Hogan, Seth Green & Seth MacFarlane, Malcolm McDowell and Conan O'Brien.

If you have seen it already, there is no reason for me to go into details.
If you HAVEN'T seen it and are a rabbid Star Wars fan, then I would not dream of spoiling any of the surprises. As the altered opening sequence shows, was this was created with special affection just for you.
Enjoy!

I've given this 2 stars not due to the fact that the episode is not funny, i do love Robot Chicken and think the Star Wars parodies are terrific. It's the fact that this DVD is only 1 episode long, and then contains a bunch of bonus features you will watch once, and probably never again. I find it hard to give higher ratings to a 20 min long feature and a heap of useless extras. Hopefully Robot Chicken will release all 3 Star Wars specials on the one disc and do away with the filler stuff, and release a decent DVD, because just as I start to get into these things, the end credits roll and I feel disappointed that it's not a feature length movie, nor at least an hour of material.

I guess now for the price of it, it's not so bad, but when it first came out it was about as expensive as buying a whole season of RC, and makes me wonder why this episode just wasn't included in a RC season as well. It just feels like a cheaply made DVD to earn a bit of cash on the side for RC, so hopefully as I said, they will combine the 3 some day for the one DVD and make something worth purchasing instead of having to keep swapping over 3 discs to watch 20 min long episodes that could all be contained on the one. For the contents on this disc, i'd expect to see such things in a free promo disc or a newspaper giveaway, or maybe even given away with a happy meal, but as something sold world wide, it's hardly worth the price.

Does this really need a review? If you're on this page, you probably already bought it.
For $10 the DVD is definately worth it! What it lacks in actual show time it makes up for with the extras. There are some great behind the scenes features that show just how much work they put into making the show and how incredibly crazy you'd have to be to do stop motion animation.
There's a couple of storyboarded deleted scenes and let's just say, for the most part, there's a reason they were deleted.
Another great thing is the Chicken Nuggets where you can watch the show and at some parts click on the icon that comes up to see a video commentary on what you're watching.

Robot Chicken: Star Wars / B0012Q3T6S

I really love Star Wars parodies, and I've seen Star Wars skits on "Robot Chicken" that were truly funny, so I was excited to get my hands on their official Star Wars special episode.

There's a lot of good stuff here, no doubt. Some of the best skits are the longer ones - Han's stalling tactics in the Death Star jail block, for instance, is quite droll (although I did like the Family Guy - Blue Harvest marginally more, with 'Han' turning the stall into a radio advice call-in show), and the cantina scene (and background) of the poor alien who loses his arm to Obi Wan is completely hilarious. And who can forget the extended skit with Darth Sidious, taking Vader's call from his escape pod? Pure awesomeness.

For all that, though, the DVD is a touch expensive for what you're getting. Most of this is available in various forms online, and several of the really good Robot Chicken Star Wars skits aren't included here (presumably because they were done after the Star Wars special episode). Some of the skits are quick throw-aways, such as the "Luke and Leia in bed the morning after" ("That was so wrong...", she says) skit that, okay, it's kind of a chuckle moment, but not really that great.

I'm not saying you shouldn't see this movie - it's definitely worth a view, just that you might want to save you money and just look for a rental or online content until this come down to something more reasonable. The DVD extras, in my opinion, aren't really thrilling enough to commit to a buy, but more devoted Robot Chicken fans may feel differently.

~ Ana Mardoll

Ah, "Star Wars"... nothing like "Star Wars"... nothing like "Star Wars"... nothing at all!

Fanboys everywhere should love this disc! Six commentary tracks, lots of behind the scenes stuff, and Jar Jar Binks being sucked out an airlock! What's not to like?

Well, the run time. At least when "Family Guy" did their "Star Wars" spoof it was 42 minutes. This one is about half that length. True, the show itself has half the run time of "Family Guy", but still.

Aside from that, all the sketches are great, you get George Lucas doing his own voice, Mark Hamil turning up as Luke and plenty of great moments tweaking the nose of the "Star Wars" franchise!

And am I alone in thinking I might actually want to see "Empire on Ice"?

If you enjoy Adult Swim and Robot Chicken, this is great fun. Fun is poked at everyone and everything. I love the scene where the dark lord gets a phone call and orders lunch. I have watched several times and find new things to laugh at each time, usually because I was too busy laughing at something else when I watched before and missed it. I have really enjoyed watching and think that I will for some time.

This first aired in July of 2007
Over 30 years since the first star wars movie came out
Let me just say this DVD is perfect for any robot chicken fan or star wars fan. Plus its a good thing too that there realesing it on DVD because now they never play this on TV anymore. Its really good animation and all around funny show,
Great DVD highly recomended