Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker - Every Star Wars Movie Reviewed & Ranked

Hurry to upstart.com/morning to find out HOW LOW your Upstart rate is.
Get 20% off and free shipping with the code MORNING at manscaped.com.
We review and rank Star Wars Episode IX.
Subscribe! kzbin.info?sub...
Support us and get the shows early here! / kindafunny
Check out our store! www.kindafunny.com/store
Follow us on Twitter!
Greg - / gameovergreggy
Tim - / timgettys
Nick - / nick_scarpino
Kinda Funny - / kindafunnyvids
Every day Greg Miller, Tim Gettys, and Nick Scarpino talk about the biggest stories in nerd culture.
Music by Tonedeff - www.QN5.com

[@eddaggett56]

Guys... Palpatine fucks

[@MelodicQuest]

It's canon

[@michimochii]

everyyyyybody fuuuuuuucks..... soooooometiiiiimes....

[@vinnybastos]

Who, though? And When? And how? And who was the child? And what happened to her? What's her story? And what's with that stupid dagger?!?!?

[@Mike_L.]

Sooo...estimating Rey's dad's age (the actor is 30) at 20-30 when Rey was born in 15 ABY (making him ~25-35 when she was 'sold'), Sheevy Palps would've done the nasty 4-14 years after episode 3 (19 BBY) as a 60-70 year old disfigured frog-monster. Hawt. I guess it's possible her dad is Luke's age or older though.

[@heiro7572]

​@@vinnybastos Sly Moore. She was a creepy bald woman with spooky eyes who stood next to him a lot in the prequels. He called her up like at 3 in the morning one day and went "Hey Sly Moore, you up? Come and witness the power of my FULLY ARMED AND OPERATIONAL shag pad!" You're welcome.

[@nicolasvanalstin741]

"The moment you start to pick it apart it becomes a bad movie" That is how you get more bad Star Wars films, right there.

[@MarchofTyranny]

"this movie is proplematic. there was some bone-headed decisions. this movie is baffeling... i loved it. excellent movie." - K.F. Think I just got whiplash.

[@ScrapHavilon]

Yup.

[@soundsbygotti]

True to their IGN roots

[@CarterHarrellMusic]

Everyone's review is basically "I don't mind that this movie is bad"

[@lexis4490]

They literally said this movie has so many problems but it is great. What?

[@PeterAtkinson]

Yeah I found this as well.

[@DavideBorsatto]

Funny how they can be okay with how bad the movie is because the fan service is good enough for them.

[@systematik]

Do you go into reviews hoping they say the movie is shit? Are you that insecure about its success?

[@blockyoxwinkle5829]

I think the best description I've heard for this movie is what Harrison Ford told Mark Hamill when they were filming A New Hope. "It ain't that kinda film kid." that quote was in response to Mark pointing out that their hair should be wet for continuity reasons. And I think it fits really well now. Star Wars is a dumb popcorn flick that isn't about asking deep questions. These guys are OK with it. They basically want more Fast and the Furious but in space. Which fine sure whatever. But if that's what it is now, then I'm OK with not watching the movies.

[@luciddre4m]

Man I'm blown away by these impressions. This movie was awful. Every scene was pointless, felt rushed, and had no stakes or emotion at all. A problem is created and solved within minutes in almost every scene. The breakneck pace of this film really skewed the opinions here because if you stop and think about ANY scene or plot element, it simply doesn't make sense, and you can tell these guys didn't do that lol. And the currently existing characters had nothing important to do except chase macguffins around and yet they kept introducing new characters. However, I will admit the film was visually stunning. But yeah this film and the whole trilogy were just a huge lump of wasted potential. Spoiler: They nullified Vader's entire arc and sacrifice by bringing back Palpatine. What the hell!

[@ThaCodFathers]

Kylo ren never kissed a girl until rey and nut so hard he turned into a force ghost.

[@thefatmangaming932]

ThaCodFathers 😂😂😂

[@UCLK]

"When you pick it apart, it becomes a bad film." Isn't that the point of this whole show?

[@ANTIStraussian]

There are ony 2 great star wars movies the rest are good to meh.

[@jmadluck]

How could Tim and Kevin think that it was acceptable for the "Rey I have to tell you something" thing to be teased multiple times in the the movies only to not be resolved at all at the end? We have to learn it from JJ after the fact. That's not good writing

[@realrobrose]

Mystery box

[@turdferguson8266]

This movie felt like a $300M fan film. Force powers were cranked up 1000%, the other 2 films barely mattered, and it felt like they just said “Let’s put that in because it looks cool”. It was a fun ride, but it felt like a weird (and completely bonkers) ending to this trilogy and the 9-film saga.

[@WHOAITSTHEINTERNET]

This. Its easy to like, but it feels extremely cheap.

[@Poever]

I mean, Rey was training in the ways of Force and had those Jedi texts in-between movies

[@joefayant6143]

I agree

[@Rockerfella360]

The way I think of Star Wars now is that the Prequels are an awful telling of a great story and the sequels are a great telling of an awful story

[@henreebee6561]

Had to think about that for a minute, but yeah... yeah I agree!

[@thedefinitionisthis]

Absolutely agreed.

[@MrZackavelli]

Prequels reule

[@hungrypenquin]

So you are allowed to criticize TLJ to your heart's content but if you have problems with ROS you are just taking Star Wars too seriously and should just enjoy the ride. Yeah, makes total sense.

[@shadowkiller9955]

This felt so different than the other in reviews... Is that just me? It didn't feel like any of them were being as critical about the movie, plus they didn't really go over the plot like they did in the other ones

[@gerardq2319]

Nick usually is able to write stuff down as he watches and then rewatches. It’s harder when it’s a movie that just came out.

[@xanderreimers4445]

I feel like they just all were in denial of how bad this movie is, every time they talked about something that they would’ve been really critical about in another movie they just were like, “eh, let’s not think about that.” Once the hype wears off I bet they’ll start to be more critical

[@Potatochief]

Darth Wado is the funniest shit ever XD

[@kryptonianBane]

What's the patrion tier to have Wado host a show ?

[@edwardstark6817]

This is ridiculous, they spent the whole time, on the prequels and TLJ reviews nitpicking the movies and making fun of every plot point in each scene. And in here, they are basically “don’t think too hard, just enjoy it”.....”It’s a bad movie but We love it”. Ugh

[@glman99]

This pissed me off so much. This was a BAD movie and they just basically said they didn't care. Ugh.

[@morganguyer3053]

glman99 that usually happens when you enjoy the movie lol. They didn’t enjoy TLJ or prequels as much so the plot points stand out more for them. This isn’t a hard concept to understand.

[@dang476]

@@morganguyer3053 They really shouldn't be shocked at the negative reception though. They admit several times in this very review that it's not a good film, then are shocked when they see it has like a 60 average, and expect it to get like a 90.

[@morganguyer3053]

Dan G I agree with that. I’m just referring to what people are saying about there prequel and TLJ reviews. If you enjoy a movie and think it’s fun you ignore the dumb shit more often then not. Clearly they don’t feel the same way with the prequels and tlj

[@henreebee6561]

glman99 - because the JJ movies don’t ask to be taken that seriously, whereas TLJ and the Prequels did, and they fail under the microscope.

[@johnsantisteban7362]

Tim's reaction when Nick started choking 😭😭😭😭😭. "Where's the Watto J.J?" 😭😭😭😭😭😭 BEST WATTO EVER

[@MaximLight269]

God I loved Babu Frik

[@joelmyers8149]

He's my one true king.

[@viceonafridaynight]

Best Star Wars character hands down😆

[@andrewpauljackson7305]

Kevin telling Tim he skipped the Upstart ad immediately after Tim finished the Upstart ad is unintentional comedy gold!!! 🤣

[@equest943]

I was pretty sure Kylo Ren was going to say "Dad...I'm sorry" and not "Dad...I love you." Am i the only one who thought this?

[@marzero116]

Coming back to this a year later it still blows my mind they rank TFA above Rouge One... TESB, ANH, Rouge One, RoTJ, TFA, TLJ, RoTS, Solo, RoS, TPM, AoTC

[@SnoopCuddles]

I would have preferred that Rey was an unaltered clone experiment of Palpatine and that her parents were instead scientists that had a change of heart and hid her away. Would have tied nicely in with all that weird shit going on in Palpatine’s lair with Snokes in jars and all those cloaked clone-like followers in the stands.

[@jpalpha118]

That was the theory I had before the film came out and was kind of hoping they'd reveal in the Sith chamber, that Palpatine only told Kylo that she was his granddaughter because he knew he'd tell her and it would make her feel isolated and afraid. Instead, we now know that Palpatine got it on with some woman when he looked like a melted candle which feels... wrong.

[@hungrypenquin]

@@jpalpha118 melted candle got me 🤣

[@caelinnis]

her father might be a clone

[@auberginedreams00]

I genuinely cannot understand liking this movie more than Revenge of the Sith. The prequel trilogy gets way too much hate. Sure the acting and dialogue isn’t perfect and there’s way too much now outdated CG, but the overall narrative was solid and it added a lot more to the overall SW universe than the sequels did.

[@MajorScar24]

I love that they are saying you should just enjoy the movies for what they are (which I agree with) but they talked so much shit about the prequels 😂🙈

[@jeffdaman6969]

Exactly. Bunch of hypocrites

[@CheefChaos]

47:12 Watch Tim Die Inside

[@ScrapHavilon]

Worth it.

[@kryptonianBane]

Poor Tim wanted to take his own life

[@jmcnear22]

Think about this... in episode 2 and 3 what was Anakin's mission/ultimate desire after his mother died? "I will be the most powerful jedi ever, I will even stop those I love from dying." Ben Solo, the grandson of Anakin, the last Skywalker sacrifices himself "...fulfill what you started" to save Rey. It was powerful and easy to not think about or realize.

[@thewsterdude]

I appreciate how candid you guys are during the review. I have a totally different opinion of the film, and I think it mostly just centers around what I kept hearing you say throughout the review, which was (in short) "this isn't a good movie -- but it made me feel good so it's fine". That just seems like expecting too little from what used to be such a cool franchise. And the whole what-about-isms you used during the review to justify the bad story telling felt very unfounded. Sure, there are plenty of movies that have small parts where you have to say "ok, this is just a movie *suspend disbelief*" but you can't build an entire film off of that and then keep throwing in stuff that feels out of place. All-in-all, this movie just felt like JJ trying to do 2 films in 1 and pleasing the fans as much as possible, and I thought it failed miserably.

[@WHOAITSTHEINTERNET]

I think JJ could have done a WAY better job of meshing the best parts of TLJ into the plot while providing *just enough* fan service to ease in those that didn't love TLJ, and it would have made for a stronger more cohesive trilogy. What we got was a disconnected mess of a plot that tries too hard to please fans and forgets to find its own identity.

[@crazydaze717]

That's all this trilogy was.. Fan service.. George gave them a road map and Disney said we don't want to tell a story we want to sell nostalgia.

[@xanderreimers4445]

Agreed

[@byroti1234]

My biggest problem with the movie is how they bring Palpatine back. Through the opening text? No hint at all to him the last two movies, then he’s back in the opening text. I agree it shouldn’t be some big reveal halfway through, but only because it was revealed in the trailer. But surely can come up with something better than that. On top of that, him being alive implies he survived the Death Star, undermining Anakin and Luke’s 6 movie journey.

[@jeffdaman6969]

Yup

[@smurfette_blues7922]

Palpatine should never have been a thing in this trilogy, much less the last film. Of course, its clear the main problem here is there was no planning from the very beginning. But even then, i still believe tros could have been infinitely better, even without the plan, had JJ developed existing set ups instead retconning and introducing new ones. It wouldnt have been a perfect film, but at least it wouldn't be this convoluted and underdeveloped.

[@playsanitygaming]

@@smurfette_blues7922 I bet they did have a plan, but quickly changed things around as they went based on reactions instead of just following the plan. Thats why we got such a chopped up and nonsensical story.

[@jeffdaman6969]

Playsanity Gaming Na, these morons had no plan. JJ did episode 7 and handed it off to Rian Johnson and was complete hands off. Rian Johnson did nothing with JJ’s set up and went his own direction in episode 8. Now, JJ returned the favor and didn’t do anything with Rian Johnson’s setup and went in his own direction. Lucas films are complete morons in the entire situation. Disney spent $4 Billion on the franchise and Lucas film had no kind of roadmap for the trilogy.

[@shamnarayan9582]

@@jeffdaman6969 absolutely right

[@marzero116]

40 years of foundation they had to work with...

[@nicoreuel2092]

MARzero1 the last two movies kinda bottlenecked all that

[@crazydaze717]

@@nicoreuel2092 More like locked it in a trunk and dumped it in the ocean.

[@turdferguson8266]

I really wish I came out of this movie feeling like Return of the King, Deathly Hallows Part 2, and Endgame. But I just didn’t.

[@zayman2045]

Richard Biscuit exactly how I feel 😓

[@Steve302]

I can’t get over they basically used the same exact line from endgame

[@Steve302]

I’m referring to Rey’s line where she says “and I... long pause, am all of the Jedi” can’t get much closer to endgame than that

[@kvoltti]

Yes it’s so strange how a movie about regular people standing up to a monolithic authoritarian despotic regime does poorly in China...... said literally no one

[@lexis4490]

I never made that connection but so true!

[@MJ-ip7oj]

Star Wars : Retcon of Skywalker

[@blackhalo1616]

Anyone else expect Phasma to just show up again, I just realized she wasn't in this and I couldn't care less. Was she actually supposed to be relevant?

[@jeffdaman6969]

She was. Shame she ended up to be nothing. Could have given fin a better arc then just being Rey’s sidekick.

[@bhargavpatel2995]

I don't hate TRoS nor do I love it. I like it a good deal and it is enjoyable. Watching this review felt slightly weird because I can understand this movie being your favorite because of the cool shit and hype moments, however it feels off when in all past reviews you guys have nitpicked the shit out of TLJ for the ship fuel and cloaking but somehow were okay with 10000× crazier shit in TRoS. I don't mind glossing over things just as long as it is consistent. Again love u guys, just something I felt I needed to get off my chest.

[@SnoopCuddles]

The Reel Life totally agree. Love Kinda Funny but you shat all over TLJ, but then happy to let everything slide with Rise just because.

[@chadroberts8377]

Probably because a good chunk of The Last Jedi was boring as shit. A movie is supposed to entertain and when it fails it doing that it should be called out. I'm not saying that TLJ was terrible but I didn't really care for it. I've seen it twice and feel like I never need to see it again.

[@OkByeNw]

The Last Jedi was trying to be a more mature movie, Rise Of Skywalker is built to be a fun space adventure. They judged them based on what the movies where trying to achieve. So I think it was fair. And I like Last Jedi btw.

[@Botrytis18]

yeah, even from the perspective of what's the better movie, then Last Jedi is just executed much better, the pacing, the actions, it's much more elegant than this cluster F episode 9 is. I just don't understand how can people say this is better than anything when it totally shat over the concept of being a trilogy. A trilogy has 3 movies that resonates with each other. This movie totally ignored Last Jedi, like it didn't happen at all. That alone is just bad movie making decision.

[@chadroberts8377]

@@Botrytis18 actually it didn't forget the last Jedi. There were a number of call backs to it actually.

[@MarioNotBros]

SPOILERS . . . . . I caught Finn having the Force on my first viewing and thought it was awesome, I never got until now that THAT'S what he was gonna tell Rey, that's even cooler

[@lexis4490]

Many people think Finn was going to say he loved her, since he constantly follows her around like a puppy.

[@DClaBarraBrava]

lol ehhh that doesn’t make much sense though. Why would he tell her “I have to tell you something! I am force sensitive” right before dying???

[@mitsunari1908]

I loved the voices at the end, but I really think if they would have gotten everyone on screen as force ghosts it would have been the ultimate cap on this saga. Oh well, still cool to have gotten those cameos at all.

[@slipserslipman1841]

I don’t mean any offence but that would be my worst nightmare

[@mitsunari1908]

@@slipserslipman1841 To each their own I guess?

[@zydake8166]

I was hoping it’d end Harry Potter style where all the former Jedi show up.

[@bhargavpatel2995]

I agree, I just wanted all the jedi force ghosts to show up by her side. This is kinda what happens when you rely on just cool shit and hype moments to drive a film, eventually people will just start saying why didn't they show this or done that (which is how I felt because TRoS is not emotionally satisfying as a whole as it never lets you settle into a moment)

[@coleepley8985]

Agreed. It didn’t need to be milked, just a simple sweep shot forward. Basically like the last episode of the last air bender with all the avatars behind them. Would of been super powerful with palpatine and Rey being like “I am all of my heritage and that stuff”. The voices were cool but a line of force ghost with the quick sweeping shot would of fucked.

[@FXcheerios69]

Theres set up that Finn is force sensitive and there is set up that Finn needs to tell Rey something. There is never anything that definitively ties them together. It could have been done better.

[@TeamSilver137]

Jay Reifenrath agreed. I thought they were two totally different things

[@WobbleWobbleJay]

Best wado is sith wado!

[@loganvickers]

I really don’t like the idea of just accepting what they tell us to try and make the movie better if you think about it for longer than 60 seconds it really just falls apart which sucks

[@Amouroso]

The fans complaining about Nick being overly harsh about mandalorian are gonna want him to bring the same energy for this

[@nicholaseikelberry8009]

I can't watch their In Review stuff anymore for this exact reason. They're never consistent with their viewpoints. I haven't seen the movie yet..so I didn't go into spoilers....but they all said this movie has a lot of problems and doesn't make sense but they still love it. Ummm....

[@maddoggnick96]

Small spoiler, but a neat Easter egg: At some point they go to a festival, and C3PO says it happens once every 42 years. That’s how long Star Wars has been around.

[@_PatrickStar]

It's just disappointing that this is what Star Wars is now. Coming out of the theater after watching Infinity War or Endgame, I immediately wanted to re-watch them and did multiple times. Walking out of the theater at the end of The Rise of Skywalker, I was very 'meh' and wouldn't loose sleep over not seeing it again anytime soon.

[@FlushyTheDrummer]

End of this video feels very revisionist, Its great you have this calm outlook on it now, but loads of you guys vocally hated TLJ at the time and contributed to that tone surrounding it. Just being real!

[@darksteel913]

Maybe Nick finally felt the magic of star wars again and that helped get rid of some bitterness in the old man

[@ScrapHavilon]

Yup.

[@hungrypenquin]

Yeah Nick standing on his soap box telling everyone to stop taking these movies so seriously rubs me the wrong way since that's exactly what they were doing for TLJ.

[@ScrapHavilon]

@@hungrypenquin And The Mandalorian. He's like, every episode should be as good as Chapter 7. That's the exact opposite message.

[@henreebee6561]

Hungry Penguin - the last Jedi asked to be taken seriously, and didn’t hold up to serious criticism, imo. The JJ movies don’t have that kind of pretense, so they don’t warrant scrutinizing them as closely.

[@alexanderchilton911]

Man, I am so happy I liked this movie. It even somehow redeemed some of The Last Jedi to me. It is clearly not perfect, but it made me feel like a kid again, which Last Jedi failed to do.

[@shamnarayan9582]

They should have called it Star Wars : Copy and Paste. What utterly unimaginative derivative drivel. It made the other Star Wars movies lose their impact as well.

[@scottanderson5236]

I'll never understand how they thought using different directors & writers for each of the 3 movies would work & be cohesive

[@jeffdaman6969]

Because they’re idiots that’s why. They didn’t even collaborate either. Morons

[@shehzaadneerooa2024]

The original trilogy had different directors. So it can work. it just needs a proper vision and blueprint

[@LoganFerguson]

The message passed to the Falcon in the beginning of the movie was literally one sentence that could have been yelled across the docking tunnel.

[@McCoyisorder]

I would say Chris Terrio was best known for winning an Oscar for Argo, but sure blame Justice League on the poor guy haha

[@DavidMcKinstry]

He's written more bad than good at this point

[@nori4051]

he wrote this,bvs,justice league i would get away from him from now on

[@CasPoole]

It’s still kinda sad that we have to accept Star Wars as something like Fast And The Furious when we all know it has such a potential to be something much more.

[@mrbiggs36]

Right! Why does Kinda Funny want us to lower our expectations for something we shouldn't have to? The reason Star Wars has such a passionate fan base is because the franchise has made some of the most influential films ever. But Tim and Andy want us to just sit there and chew on popcorn and think "it's just a movie?'. The whole reason ppl watch Kinda Funny In Review is because they're passionate about the franchise. Don't tell your audience how to feel when their passion fuels your clicks.

[@smurfette_blues7922]

She "finally" has an answer to what her lineage is? Tlj made it clear they weren't anyone of importance. I would have been fine if she had an important bloodline (though i wouldn't prefer it) if this was effectively foresahdowed. But it wasnt because there was no solid plan for where she was going to end up. And aside from that, her arc of choosing her own family could have been done without the retcon. We could have fleshed out her "filthy junk trader" parents. They share the same values as the first order (in that they have no issue exploiting children) and are therefore part of the evil in the galaxy, even if they arent force sensitive or sith. Its completely plausible that her draw to the dark could be explained by the awful genes of her completely non-force-sensitive, but evil parents. This change would not only be more interesting, it would also be much more relatable! Retcons and the negligence of existing set ups killed this film.

[@Willbo-ft6oy]

I agree with Nick when he said that the ex-storm troopers storyline needed to be fleshed out more. I loved that scene between Jannah and Finn where they're talking about their past, I just wish the scene was given more room to breathe.

[@tonderickwatkins3278]

Dear Kinda Funny, Why are you making excuses for TROS when you didn’t make excuses for the Prequels?

[@TheAndyCortez]

the prequels have an equal amount of dumb things but they also add on bad acting/dialog.

[@Whitephoenix98]

Go back and watch the prequels and tell me they're better than this movie. Do it. I dare you

[@tonderickwatkins3278]

Waves watched this movie twice and probably won’t watch it again. This sequel trilogy was so unnecessary they couldn’t even make a good stand alone trilogy, each film undercut what came before. Search your feelings you know TROS is a piece of shit. 😂

[@AlexB92254]

Not sure I agree at all with Nick's opinion of the critics reviews of the film. The whole way through they've been mentioning that there's bad editing and the story is all over the place. What are they expecting critics to do? Give it a pass? On RT its got a 54%, that feels absolutely right to me. It aint bad but its not particularly great either.

[@MrGnarVar]

I hate to say that I didnt love TROS. It has some fun moments and the character interactions are good but I just found meself feeling apathetic about everything happening on screen. For me all the big payoffs of this movie were set up in this film which is fine for a movie but kind of makes me feel meh on the whole trilogy. I think the real issue at the end of the day is Disney didnt have a clear plan as y'all stared in the review. I hope it grows on me once I rewatch it.

[@VNKNOWN_TX]

How is no one addressing the fact that the “I am all the Jedi” moment is a straight up rip off of the “I am iron man” scene from end game..

[@lKingCarnage]

"Star Wars is fun now like Fast & Furious" Yeah and that's the fucking problem, it's turning into another generic action film

[@hanr151]

When Greg chimes in towards the end warning spoilers on Greg’s opinion LUL & his growth when Greg says “I love this film..I’m a fan..how can people not like this.” It was like yess!! Finally!!! you see what these films do to ppl ..welcome plz sit over here. Brings back the feels when I first found him w/ Colin talking about nerdy PlayStation stuff Along time ago

[@RandomTokuVideos]

So far, this review is boggling my mind.

[@leodilles6488]

When I read the first line of the scrawl, I thought to myself, Nick Scarpino is gonna smackdown on that.

[@metronicmagician1816]

I think the only thing that I actually have a gripe with Rise of The Skywalker is that the first 15-20 minutes should have been in The Last Jedi, or at the very least was hinted at in that film.

[@momhii]

That’s why it’s called the force awakens cause if it’s not for Finn nothing happens

[@Baytuh]

I get it and totally agree with them at the end of this video but weren't they kinda those fans too? Not harassing the cast but just hating tlj.

[@anabellegarcia384]

I can not believe I enjoyed this movie as much as I did. I knew everything about the plot ahead of time which helped me just kinda have fun with it. But... I love Star Wars it’s dumb and I love it

[@maddoggnick96]

I liked the cool sand bikes with the treads and ejection seats in the back. I’d get a LEGO set of those.

[@crazydaze717]

I've got a great idea let's create a storm trooper bike that doesn't hover like everything else in the universe. Let's put a tank tread in the front and have it able to keep up with a floating speeder even though sand consistency is so bad it would seriously slow them down and yet somehow they're fast enough to catch up to a floating speeder but not fast enough to overtake them that you need to launch jet pack troopers from a back seat to try to finish them off. Literally the dumbest thing ever. I get it's cool looking but it doesn't belong in the SW universe.

[@Hs022]

Kevin has such poor taste in movies.

[@wb8905]

yeah, he does.

[@carlosgsoria]

Like, he has such a problem with TLJ and what it does to lore, but gives this one, out of all the movies, a pass? Makes absolutely 0 sense. This movie at best is boring, and at worst, is an absolute insult to what Star Wars was, and I’d say even to George Lucas and Rian Johnson

[@caulinwhitewater4118]

i wanna watch the movie they watched. 😅

[@thetlamb]

I’m glad I’m not alone in enjoying this movie. Flaws and all.

[@uncagedelite]

I really don't see the complaint about Palatine being alive when everyone fucking loves Darth Maul and Boba Fett surviving. At least Palpatine's goal was actually immortality and he didn't just randomly survive, at least that's how I took it.

[@uncagedelite]

@@amuroray88 Somebody didn't see Solo...

[@PeckerComics]

Damn you guys look way different than I imagined in my head

[@ancientflames]

Yeah they are all Asian irl so crazy

[@r4fide]

Watching four men explaining how the movie is bad but they enjoyed it anyway.

[@stevebruh5019]

Reading a comment about watching four men...

[@ItalianStallion219]

Chris Terrio is best known for this academy award winning writing in Argo but it’s okay just skip over that lol.

[@jeffdaman6969]

Yeah, guess he couldn’t handles something on a bigger scope

[@ItalianStallion219]

JEFFREY not necessarily if there are to many cooks in the kitchen something is gonna get messed up.

[@jeffdaman6969]

Chris Cardinal This isn’t a kitchen. It’s a movie trilogy where the two directors didn’t collaborate on the story and this is the end result. A huge pile of garbage

[@jpalpha118]

Honestly, if I never got fully invested in Star Wars, never read the comics, watched Clones Wars, or Rebels, I’d probably have enjoyed it. But I just couldn’t enjoy it. JJ clearly didn’t invest any time learning what has happened in the canon, or how anything works, what people know or don’t know, causing this whole film to feel like fan fiction for Original Trilogy Purists. He jumped the shark so hard.

[@assnassassins7395]

100 agree. I went in open, but left dissapointed..

[@stanleyipkiss3800]

It was crazy how the emperor was in Lunatic Pandora from Final Fantasy 8

[@Watkins2602]

One thing that completely took me out of the film was the final lines between Rey and the Emperor. “I am all the Sith!” “And I.... am.... Iron M-All the Jedi!” Were the Endgame and Rise screenwriters trading notes? I forsee a thousand “hey can I copy your homework” memes coming.

[@daniel.almaguer]

Me too! I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned to much around reviews I've seen and even become a whole new meme. It was the first thing I said to my wife when the movie finished: "Too similar and also, too soon" for those lines haha

[@vibechecks1987]

Remember these are the same people that said Spiderman 2 sucked lol

[@JSilv3r]

That Darth watto transition was so smooth LOL

[@SteveTheSuperSanchez]

Kanan is pronounced as Kay-Nin Barrett where were you?!? Lol

[@legendofhayden]

force healing seems to be on the fence between dark and light side powers

[@kevinalvarez4421]

I thought the movie was okay. I loved the Force Awakens and Last Jedi. I just think it didn’t really lived up to the hype. Loved everything between the characters but im not able to see past Palpatine involvement.

[@olischues]

I would've loved to hear your comments on Rey going back to Tatooine in order to bury the lightsabers, force ghost Skywalkers an Rey saying "Rey Skywalker".

[@DanielHodder7]

Tim: He's force sensitive Nick: [confused] What? Nick 5 minutes later: I got that he was force sensitive.

[@joezacc235]

It’s cool to hate this movie on the internet. It was fantastic! I cheered, I cried, and laughed. It’s everything I wanted it to be. Just enjoy it for what it is. Nick summed it up perfectly at the end.

[@joezacc235]

I can take off my nostalgia glasses and see why this movie is getting criticized...but the hate it’s getting is beyond me. It was entertaining as fuck. We don’t get movies like this often.

[@happymonkeypot]

Spoilers * * * * its Established in ROTJ and the Clone wars show. That you are not a true Jedi till you make your own Lightsaber So Leia Being a fully trained Jedi means her Lightsaber makes sense I persoanlly always assumed a Leia saber exist because of the Eu

[@leftlocke]

As someone who loved TFA and TLJ, TROS kinda dissapointed me. I still enjoyed it for what it was and I adore the characters as a whole but before TROS I did actually hold this Trilogy as my favorite of the 3 even though is wasnt finished yet. I do think JJ just said fuck it and tried his best to appease everyone which is something that can never be done successfully. Like the guys said, the responsibility falls on Kathleen and Disney to have an actual roadmap for what needs to be done and I am optimistic for the future and I really do think whatever comes next will be done the right way and bring star wars fans back together. And I really hope sometime in like ten years or so we get to see this cast of characters back in star wars for a story that will be told for the next generation and will be as great as this one should of and could have been.

[@zodiac909]

Disgusting.

[@Gallifreyan1969]

Is the shirt Nick was wearing available to buy in store?

[@tullerusk987]

Luke cathing the lightsaber isnt a fuck you to Rian Johnson, In Last Jedi Luke has an story arc from a broken jedi that would throw away the lightsaber to regaining his faith in the jedi and becoming the guy we se in Rise of skywalker that catches the lightsaber. The Luke Rian leaves us with in the last jedi would have cought that saber.

[@carlosgsoria]

If only they already had that moment where he holds that lightsaber in TLJ. Oh wait, he did. That’s literally why he uses the blue saber in the end instead of the green one. He’s symbolically picking it back up from when he threw it at the beginning, to be the metaphor of him picking back up his legend. The TROS one was literally just an insult to rian and answer to fans of “he wouldn’t do that reee”.

[@tullerusk987]

@@carlosgsoria i disagree, its not an insult having it twice. But also in TLJ i feel its less about him symbolicly picking his legend up again. But more him not wanting to use the lightsaber he almost struck Ben solo down with. Also its just a hint for the viewer that its not luke in the flesh haha

[@carlosgsoria]

@@tullerusk987 while those 2 other reasons do exist, they all coexist with the themes of what he’s doing. That’s why those final scenes with Luke and Ben are so emotionally heavy. The legendary Luke Skywalker has returned to fight his nephew who has now outgrown his grandfather and killed his master to rule the universe, putting him on the same level as the emperor, but showing his turmoil growing and being even more unstable as he lets the darkness take him instead of becoming stronger. That white salt the first order is on, symbolizing forced unity just like in our history, is now lead by unstable ruler, vs that passionate burning red with the rebels, now being led by a legend that will inspire to fight for life and freedom and to protect those that choose to fight for those ideals. Just like with George, rian is using symbolism from our world to elevate the messages in a scene. Watch other RJ movies, or even the breaking bad episodes he did. He purposely uses symbols within the world to help set what we’re supposed to feel and what message he’s trying to say. There’s nothing like that in TROS.

[@tullerusk987]

@@carlosgsoria Yeah i agree that he uses symbolism ofcourse. But i dont think JJ was holding a grudge and put that scene in Rise as a screw you yo Rian. I feel its more like a way to atleast try and tie it in with TLJ. But either way TLJ and Rise did not work for me. Love the symbolism in TLJ but the story lacked alot for me. Rise is just a clusterfuck that was basicly bound to happen with no planning of a trilogy.

[@reytista1992]

Omg that Watto scene came out of nowhere lol

[@AlbinoY3ti]

JJ masked the terrible plot with nostalgia overload so you don't think about how bad the movie is.

[@plo617]

The fact that it worked on so many people, is an embarrassment to human intelligence.

[@plo617]

@@dontworry7440 You have the right to like inferior storytelling, just don't tell me that it's good.

[@lancerloco]

My one big problem with this review was how Nick poured his drink, way too foamy

[@COOLTOON-cn3zl]

47:15

[@DecimatorXX]

I can't tell you how refreshing it is to finally have some decently positive commentary about this movie. My recommended videos and articles have been flooded with links to people talking about how terrible they thought this movie was, whereas I walked out of it having loved so much of it. I hung around the theatre for a while after the movie ended and while its flaws definitely stood out more so than any other Star Wars movie, everyone in the crowd just had such a great time. It doesn't commit to explaining literally every step or every detail that led to the events taking place in the movie, but the entire saga has tonnes of these open ended questions and that's okay. That's where the fun speculation begins (just... try not to get butthurt when your fan theory doesn't end up being canon). I feel like this is probably the easiest movie to pick apart if you wanted to. God knows the world and every sequel trilogy/Kathleen Kennedy hater alive is going to rip and tear into it hard. But that hate has been around since the announcement of Star Wars being sold to Disney, and is never going to go away.

[@icymoe1024]

That moment when Rey started using Kylo's reverse grip..... So cool

[@TheForwardSlashSlash]

It's like whatever I'm feeling, Kinda Funny feels the exact opposite. I've loved almost all the Mandalorian episodes and think these guys were overly harsh on it. Then, when I expected them to call out the lack of finalized plot and fan service that this movie had, they basically said that it was still fun (how I felt about the "slow" Mandalorian episodes) I must enjoy listening to people that don't think like me at this point, because I keep coming back and getting mad/confused.

[@jeffdaman6969]

LoL

[@sparty5449]

Yeah I feel ya man. The Mandalorian is leagues better than anything in this new trilogy imo. It's insane how harshly the guys ( specifically Nick) critiques the show but excuse away so many issues this Rise of the Skywalker by saying oh it's just a dumb fun movie, just enjoy it, don't think about it too much.

[@Gabzilla27]

Can we please get LOTR inreview! With nick or tim as master of plot

[@Its_Enri]

*SPOILERS* When you guys just mentioned Rey taking the Skywalker name I deadass started crying again. I know some people are gonna think it’s a dumb moment but after rewatching Force Awakens and seeing how desperate she was for her family to come back and the Force pulling her to Han, Luke and Leia who all essentially raise her over the course of these three movies it really makes that moment so emotional.

[@Joekkaido]

Honestly, I was unsure how I felt about that moment when it happened, but having you explain it like that makes me completely change my mind. You're right.

[@SamButler22]

I knew I guy called Trevorrow at uni. It rhymes with tomorrow, he used to get really pissed off with Trevor-O

[@tylerhensley7272]

Can we get a Super Cut of every section of the review that Wato shows ups at?! 😂🤣

[@AlvaroArturoNunez]

“Star Wars didn’t Lord of the Rings”.... that’s the issue... because it should be. It’s like Ferrari putting out a slow car. They can do way better

[@ethanbowden7256]

Nick miss read this movie so hard that it's actually funny. "Oh I didn't get that he's force senseitive" literally 30 later "oh no I absolutely got that he's force senseitive"

[@paulpmcgrath]

I thought it was clear that he meant it didn't come across in the movie that that was what Finn wanted to tell Rey which I totally agreed with. They showed him being force sensitive but I did think it seemed more like he wanted to tell her he loved her or something.

[@MrTooner101]

It's almost the one year anniversary of TROS, and I've never tried to love a movie more than this one. But, just as the finale to the Skywalker saga all I feel is disappointment (especially knowing about Colin Trevorrow's 'Duel of the Fates' script). Is it fun to watch? Sure, but fun doesn't outweigh the baggage of problems this film created itself. It should've been ROTS levels of hype but it simply wasn't. P.S. Honestly, it makes me question if J.J. Abrams is to blame for the sequel trilogy problems; it all stems from TFA.

[@YounusNobi]

This was a Great “in Review” series with Star Wars, so many laughs, ideas, opinions and just a fun time all around. Love You Guys ❤️

[@sergiogarcia5593]

I liked the trilogy but JJ Abrams should have directed all 3 films. Not shitting on TLJ, as I thought it was fine, but it would have helped with the cohesion.