2008 - Rated PG-13 - 1 hr 30 min
Director: Kyle Newman
Starring: Dan Fogler, Sam Huntington, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen, Danny Trejo, William Shatner, Carrie Fisher
Star Wars fans will take special delight in this geeked-out adventure movie. Despite it's slap-stick Road Trip kind of comedy, the overall story is one I really enjoy. Four childhood friends band together to storm Skywalker Ranch to see Episode One before it comes out, because one of them is dying from cancer. The way I just explained it sounded lame, but it's not melodramatic or anything. It's just a nice story about friends - with some hillarity thrown in for good measure.
Seth Rogen is arguably one of the better parts of this movie, and he only plays two small parts. Fighting himself (one role versus the other) is possibly the highlight, but his Star Trek nerd taking down Dan Fogler is classic. The laundry list of cameos doesn't hurt this movie either.
It's just fun, but not ridiculous beyond reason. And don't we all want to break into Skywalker Ranch, either to save George Lucas's movies from himself or... no, that's why we all want to break in. But before Episodes One, Two and Three came out, some of us probably wanted to watch those too.
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