As alot of you Star Wars knw there has only been one Star Wars holiday special and to say that it was pretty bad would be a huge understatement. Well now the folkes over at Lego and Disney have teamed up in order to bring us another one because the world was just begging for another Star Wars holiday special and not you know an actually GOOD Star Wars movie and so here is my review of "The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special" enjoy.
The plot of this special is Rey somehow finds the key to time travel and so with BB8 by her side goes travelling through the Star Wars timeline while trying to learn to be a good master to Finn for some reason. I will admit that the plot to thing special is alot better then the one for the first Star Wars holiday special just because this one actually has a plot but at the same time the plot for this special makes no sense very little sense since at the end of The Rise Of Skywalker Rey was on her own and not with her friends and certainly wasn't training Finn to be a jedi but as a thing meant for little kids the plot is decent enough but that's really it.
Starring in this special is Helen Sadler as Rey , James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian. Also starring in the special is A.J. LoCascio as Han Solo and a Jawa , Anthony Daniels asC-3PO , Ben Prendergast as Darth Maul and General Hux , Dee Bradley Baker as Clone Trooper and Max Rebo , Eric Bauza as Luke Skywalker and Stormtrooper , one of the only actors from the films to reprise their role for this special we have Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico and Matt Sloan as Darth Vader.
As for what I thought about the acting in the special it was honestly a lot better then it had any right to be if i'm being honest. No one would have blamed these actors if they chose to phone in their performances but no all of the actors in this special do a really good at playing their respective characters and Helen Sadler does such a good impression of Daisy Ridley that I legit thought that they brought Daisy Ridley back to play Rey.
Doing the animation for this special is Atomic Cartoons or at least I assume so since the special only has them listed as doing production services but they are the closest company I could find in terms of who did the animation. As for what I thought about the animation in this special it wasn't that bad the issue is tho it wasn't that good either it was at best passable which for a Lego special or direct to DVD film makes sense but not for something related to Star Wars.
For any of you that don't know this special takes place after The Rise Of Skywalker which honestly a few inconsistencies. The first of which being when that film ended Rey was on Tatooine and wasn't a jedi master the second of which is the fact that Finn wasn't training to be a jedi and Rey hadn't said that she would take him on and be his jedi master these are basic continuity issues that could have been addressed in the special and it just goes to show you that the makers behind this special never even saw The Rise Of Skywalker.
While what I just said about the continuity might seem like nitpicking to a die hard Star Wars fan ignoring the continuity of any film regardless of weather or not the film is bad is always going to be an issue. The other thing that I have an issue with is even tho this special might be non canon if it is canon then they've just introduced time travel into the world of Star Wars is just freaking stupid because Star Wars was always space fantasy and not science fiction.
I will admit this Star Wars holiday special is alot better then the first one simply because of two reason the first one being you can actually understand what the main characters are saying and secondly this one actually has a plot. Both of these reasons make this special alot better then the first Star Wars holiday special which I know isn't a high bar to achieve it is still something that's worth pointing out in my opinion.
This special has a running time of forty four minuets and fifty seven seconds so let's round that up nicely to forty five minuets. This running time for me personally was a bit long simply because the film simply doesn't have the running time to cover that length of time and so scenes shouldn't take that long now take nearly ten times as long because they have to stretch a twenty two minuet plot into an almost forty five minuet plot which simply doesn't work in my opinion.
Now then there is some action in this special and so that means that I have to talk about the action that's in the special itself. Which I have to admit was honestly really good and the action for me is where the special is the most fun just because you get to see people from different eras of Star Wars media fighting either with or against each other which for me at least was really fun to see since if you have alot of Star Wars Lego then you might have say Rey and Darth Maul fight each for example the only limitations when it comes to lego is your own imagination and that's something that's carried through to this special in my opinion.
Overall yeah this Star Wars holiday special is alot better then the first Star Wars holiday special like I said that's not exactly a high bar to reach. That said this special has many issues with it a number of which i've covered in this review and some of which i've covered in this review and one of which is just so dumb that honestly it's not even worth talking about and so this Star Wars holiday special gets a 6 out of 10 from me.
All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official Star Wars fandom wiki page (called Wookieepedia) and Google Images. Honestly out of the two websites that I used i'd say that Wookieepedia aka the official Star Wars fandom wiki page is the better website for images just because the images on there are very high definition but Google Images has more of a verity of images so i'd say use either website if you want images from this special but that's just me and you can watch this special right now on Disney+.