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Return of the Jedi (1983)

Directed by Richard Marquand

Science Fiction | Fantasy

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Overview

Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.

Rated PG | Length 132 minutes

Actors

Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Billy Dee Williams | Anthony Daniels | Peter Mayhew | Sebastian Shaw | Ian McDiarmid | Frank Oz | James Earl Jones | David Prowse | Alec Guinness | Kenny Baker | Michael Pennington | Kenneth Colley | Michael Carter | Denis Lawson | Tim Rose | Dermot Crowley | Caroline Blakiston | Warwick Davis | Jeremy Bulloch | Femi Taylor | Annie Arbogast | Claire Davenport | Jack Purvis | Mike Edmonds | Jane Busby | Malcolm Dixon | Mike Cottrell | Nicki Reade | Adam Bareham | Jonathan Oliver | Pip Miller | Tom Mannion | Margo Apostolos | Ray Armstrong | Eileen Baker | Michael Henbury Ballan | Bobby Bell | Patty Bell | Alan Bennett | Sarah Bennett | Pamela Betts | Danny Blackner | Linda Bowley | Peter Burroughs | Debbie Lee Carrington | Maureen Charlton | Willie Coppen | Sadie Corre | Tony Cox | John Cumming | Jean D'Agostino | Luis De Jesus | Debbie Dixon | Margarita Fernández | Phil Fondacaro | Sal Fondacaro | Tony Friel | Daniel Frishman | John Ghavan | Michael Gilden | Paul Grant | Lydia Green | Lars Green | Pam Grizz | Andrew Herd | J.J. Jackson | Richard Jones | Trevor Jones | Glynn Jones | Karen Lay | John Lummiss | Nancy MacLean | Peter Mandell | Carole Morris | Stacie Nichols | Chris Nunn | Barbara O'Laughlin | Brian Orenstein | Harrell Parker Jr. | John Pedrick | April Perkins | Ronnie Phillips | Katie Purvis | Carol Read | Nicholas Read | Diana Reynolds | Danielle Rodgers | Chris Romano | Dean Shackelford | Kiran Shah | Felix Silla | Linda Spriggs | Gerald Staddon | Josephine Staddon | Kevin Thompson | Kendra Wall | Brian Wheeler | Butch Wilhelm | Mark Dodson | Simon J. Williamson | Richard Bonehill | David Gonzales | Peter Roy | Erik Bauersfeld | Mike Quinn | Bill Kipsang Rotich | Deep Roy | Alisa Berk | Hugh Spight | Swee Lim | Richard Robinson | Gerald Home | Phil Herbert | Tim Dry | Sean Crawford | Phil Tippett | Toby Philpott | David Alan Barclay | Jasper Jacob | Peter Allen | John Altman | Glyn Baker | Dickey Beer | Ailsa Berk | Don Bies | Paul Brooke | Ben Burtt | Maurice Bush | Trevor Butterfield | Vivienne Chandler | Tony Clarkin | Kenneth Coombs | Andy Cunningham | Peter Diamond | Richard Driscoll | Douglas Farrell | Alan Flyng | Ernie Fosselius | Stuart Fox | Isaac Grand | Gordon Hann | Alan Harris | Walter Henry | Philip Herbert | Larry Holt | William Hoyland | Colin Hunt | Monty Jordan | Michael Josephs | Eiji Kusuhara | Anthony Lang | Arnold Lee | Julius LeFlore | John Maloney | Paul Markham | Richard Marquand | Hilton McRae | Billy J. Mitchell | Amanda Noar | Terry Sach | Errol Shaker | Guy Standeven | Jules Walters | Robert Watts | Paul Weston | Corey Dee Williams | Michael Stevens | Michael McCormick | David Stone | Lynne Hazelden | Paul Springer | Ronny Cush | Larry Ward | John Cannon | Dalyn Chew | Celia Fushille-Burke | Mercedes Ngoh | Jennifer Jaffe | Tina Simmons | Hayden Christensen

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Viewing Notes

As Rebel leaders map their strategy for an all-out attack on the Emperor’s newer, bigger Death Star. Han Solo remains frozen in the cavernous desert fortress of Jabba the Hutt, the most loathsome outlaw in the universe, who is also keeping Princess Leia as a slave girl. Now a master of the Force, Luke Skywalker rescues his friends, but he cannot become a true Jedi Knight until he wages his own crucial battle against Darth Vader, who has sworn to win Luke over to the dark side of the Force. Of the three Special Editions, I think Return probably got messed with the most. Sure they added a scene into New Hope, but they completely changed the musical number in this one by turning it into one that just completely disrupts the films flow. The effects haven’t aged well in the ‘Jedi Rocks’ sequence at all. The ewoks had already made this a light-hearted film, way more than Empire, and that sequence just adds to it. Some of the regular effects haven’t aged well as the film elements getting mixed you can see the old film on film method they used to put the ships in frame. Overall though, it’s solid and still a better outing than the prequel films, it’s just not as solid as Empire managed to be.

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