Batman, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, the Avengers, Indiana Jones, Jurassic World, and Pirates of the Caribbean have all had at least one game made chronicling their stories and characters.
REVIEW FORCE AWAKENS SERIES
There's a new hope for the Star Wars franchise. As the camera sails up into the sky, and we stare down at these two mysteries-this young girl so powerful in the Force, inexplicably abandoned long ago on Jakku, and this enigmatic hermit we thought we knew-we search our feelings and know it to be true.We’ve seen a lot of licensed LEGO games in the 11 years since the series of action games from Traveler’s Tales first kicked off. Even while it seems to go through so many of the old motions, even as it wows us with its big action and sparkly energy, it treats its characters with more dignity and complexity than ever before. The Force Awakens is perhaps the most daring of the Star Wars films, at least beneath the surface. And I love that about the film, that it leaves us wondering that it challenges our expectations of these beloved characters, even while telling a story that's familiar in form and narrative that it places us down in the action and chaos without bothering to explain itself. What will Hamill sound like now, not as the Joker, but as the young Skywalker?) (After all, it's Mark Hamill's voice we've been listening to all these years, much more than we've seen his face. Perhaps everyone was waiting, as I was, to hear if the old Jedi Master would speak. When Luke finally shows his face-older now, bearded and stern and world-weary-nobody claps. We get to see these old, beloved characters once more, but this isn't their story.īy the time we clamber solemnly up the steps of that isle of ruins with Rey, on that lonely planet Luke has hidden himself away on, the audience is somber and still. The old are making way for the new, passing that heavy torch. This embrace can symbolize the entire film. Leia is leaning on Rey, at once welcoming her and accepting her into the fold, and passing on a truly vast responsibility to the younger woman. Rey and Leia's embrace has a gravity that's palpable. The Force Awakens distances itself from those movies, and does its best to provide fanservice and nostalgia. For many, that was Return of the Jedi, not any of the prequel films.
There's no doubt that The Force Awakens is, in some sense, a reintroduction to that universe we left a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Something remarkable happened the first time I saw Episode VII. Each time an old Star Wars face appeared onscreen, the audience clapped.
REVIEW FORCE AWAKENS DRIVER
Kylo Ren, played by Adam Driver (Credit: Disney) This central struggle of Star Wars-not just the conflict between good and evil, but between the good and evil within us-doesn't chart a clear path. I have hope, but I'm far from certain what will happen. I even have hope for Kylo Ren, whose struggle between the Dark and the Light is not so different from that of his uncle or his grandfather. But when we see Rey and Chewie piloting the Millennium Falcon together later, a new friendship blooming, we can't help but grin. Finn and Rey's relationship, in particular, is charming and sincere and wonderful, a bright shiny thing in an era of cynical media.Įven the film's central tragedy can't truly shake us. The terrible death of Han Solo is even more painful than that of Obi-wan in the first film, because we've spent so long getting to know and to love Han. Finn and Poe Dameron and BB-8 are all magnificent new characters, much like Han and Leia and Artoo and Threepio were when we first met them. There's daring adventure, rescue, and swashbuckling action. We meet a young girl on a desert who we discover is strong with the Force.
Much like A New Hope, we are simply told that the good guys are fighting against the bad guys and that's enough. We begin in media res, with little knowledge of what exactly is going on or what's transpired to get us into such dire straits.
Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega) make a daring escape.
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