The Star Wars Holiday Special

11/17/19781h 37m

TV Release (US)

Overview:

Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, their most important day of the year!

Director:

Steve Binder

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$1,000,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

holiday
talk show
tree house
hologram
musical
space
space opera
based on movie
vignette
variety show
live action and animation
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Cast

Peter Mayhew

~ as ~

Chewbacca

Mark Hamill

~ as ~

Luke Skywalker

Carrie Fisher

~ as ~

Princess Leia Organa

Harrison Ford

~ as ~

Han Solo

Anthony Daniels

~ as ~

C-3PO

James Earl Jones

~ as ~

Darth Vader (voice)

Bea Arthur

~ as ~

Ackmena

Art Carney

~ as ~

Saun Dann

Paul Kantner

~ as ~

Holographic Band Member

Diahann Carroll

~ as ~

Mermeia

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Reviews (2)

Gimly
Written 5 year(s) ago
1
I recently spoke about how, in my opinion at least, Attack of the Clones is the worst theatrically released Star Wars of all time. The reason I had to put that "theatrically released" qualifier in there, is because of The Holiday Special, because it absolutely blitzes Clones when it comes to how low it sinks. The Holiday Special isn't just a bad Star Wars movie, it isn't just a bad movie full stop, it basically isn't a movie at all.

Final rating:½ - So bad it’s offensive. I may never fully recover.
r96sk
Written 4 year(s) ago
1
What were they even thinking? Astonishingly bad, and not even in a humorous way either.

After watching and, all in all, enjoying the main films from the 'Star Wars' franchise, I thought I'd check out the many spin-off films. 'The Star Wars Holiday Special' makes for quite the start!

I had heard bits and pieces about this down the years and those bits and pieces were usually pretty derogatory and now I can see why; it's far worse than I was anticipating though. The worst thing is that it doesn't even try to be silly and stupid, if actually attempts to be sincere and meaningful.

It's utterly dire, from start to finish. No idea how they roped Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher into this, you gotta especially feel for Fisher given that end scene... wow. I wish it was 'so bad it's good' so it could've been ironically fun to watch, but it's the furthest thing from that.