The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

The notorious Star Wars Holiday Special, well for its 40th anniversary this year I finally watched it. One can understand on an intellectual level from its reputation that this is bad, but you can never know just how bad until you watch it. Surprisingly long non subtitled stretches of Wookie speak, Harvey Korman in drag, Bea Arthur singing, it's all there, including the three leads of the original film just trying to get the dang thing over with. Most remarkable of all is that having seen it, CBS still elected to put it on in prime time. If you like Star Wars, or if you like 1970's variety television, you will still probably not like The Star Wars Holiday Special. * 1/2 (the half star being for the shear ludicrous novelty of it.)