"What can I say? There's nothing I can say that legions of late-twentysomething / early thirtysomething geeky men such as myself haven't said a million times before. Sublime, life-changing genius *"
"* Apart from the Ewoks, of course. They were rubbish. Anyway, these cartoons by Genndy 'Samurai Jack' Tartovsky provide a brilliantly high-octane animated bridge between AOTC and ROTS."
"The best film of my childhood which doesn't involve Stormtroopers. Bill Murray's Venkman is comedy incarnate, and the library ghost still sh*ts me up big time at the age of 30. Absolute genius."
"Ignore the dreadful remake, this is the real deal. Ray Harryhausen's special effects are mindblowing considering the age of the film; the climatic 'skeleton fight' scene bears up well today."
"A dreadful soft-rock soundtrack. Orson Welles tragically shuffling off this mortal coil after completing his last role as a talking, world devouring robot moon. Eric Idle as a junk monster. Ace."
"Modern big-budget animation is usually way too cloying and sentimental for my taste; the existence of this film, however, is justified by Antonio Banderas' genius Puss in Boots if nothing else."