Others, though, were more skeptical.
Joy Gould Boyum ofThe Wall Street Journaleven described it as “a comic book movie.”
Little did they know what was to come.
Credit: LucasFilm Ltd./Courtesy Everett Collection
See below for more critics' takes on the first trip to theStar Warsgalaxy.
It’s an epic without a dream.
But it’s probably the absence of wonder that accounts for the film’s special, huge success.
It’s fun and funny."
O dull new world!"
It has no message, no sex and only the merest dollop of blood shed here and there.
It’s aimed at kidsthe kid in everybody."
It simply is a fun picture that will appeal to those who enjoy Buck Rogers-style adventures.
It’s the triumph of campthat sentiment which takes delight in the awful simply because it’s awful.
He is in superlative command of his own movie-nurtured fantasy life.
