TheRetroCritic

As Star Wars Month draws to a close, here is a list of all the movies in the franchise reviewed. Expect lots more Star Wars content very soon. STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE

Was gonna review this little Star Wars spoof but hey, it's pretty self-explanatory. It's Hardware Wars time! May the farce be with you...

"A long time ago, but somehow in the future..." Back in 2007, Family Guy opened its sixth season with Blue Harvest , the first in a trilogy of Star Wars spoofs/homages. The hour-long episode followed A New Hope pretty closely with the characters from Seth MacFarlane's show taking over all the roles. The framing device for the episode is the TV loses power so Peter Griffin tells his family the story of Star Wars starting, of course, with Part IV. The iconic text scroll soon trails off into random Angelina Jolie-themed gossip and we meet our droids, Quagmire as C-3PO and Cleveland as R2-D2. The scenes recreated from the film are surprisingly detailed at times with some shots or actions replicated exactly. While Robot Chicken went for a goofy best of, this goes all out with retelling the classic story and injecting some humour into every scene. Some of the jokes are obvious, a lot are much more obscure so hardcore fans should have a ball with this one. Obi-Wa

Back in 1977, George Lucas released Star Wars , an epic sci-fi fantasy space opera with a save-the-princess plot and it soon became a phenomenon, to say the least. It would later be retitled Episode IV: A New Hope as Lucas decided to expand the storyline further. The film was such a commercial hit that two (soon to be three) more films would follow, then three prequels, countless tie-ins, endless novels, tons and tons of merchandising, several cartoon series, it made Harrison Ford's career and Jedi even became a legitimate (-ish) religion! And the crazy thing is the franchise is still as huge as it ever was, with many, many more films planned so let's take a look back at the movie that started it all. Star Wars opens with a captured Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) sending a couple of droids off to planet Tatooine to bring back help. She is being held by iconic baddie Darth Vader (played by David Prowse, voiced by James Earl Jones) who is running a gigantic space station f