
A documentary exploring the attraction of the Star Wars universe to its many fans. Includes interviews and cameos from across the United States. Leads up to the opening of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.... (Full plot summary below)
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A documentary exploring the attraction of the Star Wars universe to its many fans. Includes interviews and cameos from across the United States. Leads up to the opening of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
Leave your thoughts about A Galaxy Far, Far Away.
| Film ThreatMerle BertrandIn the end, A Galaxy Far, Far Away shadows its parent films in that it's just good clean fun for the whole family. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouRumsey TaylorTo the film's credit its topic supplies a wealth of material, philosophy, and entertainment -- and victim to it, A Galaxy Far Far Away meanders in the wide, overwhelming scope of its course. |
| L.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmJalil penetrates a carnivalesque subculture of self-reinvention and obsession, emotional need and materialist greed, with a camera that is, by turns, cruel, kind and incisive. |
| New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. ThompsonOf all the various low-budget documentaries chronicling the Star Wars phenomenon, Tariq Jalil's is certainly the most recent. There's not a whole lot else to say about it. |
| 7M PicturesKevin CarrTriumph the Insult Comic Dog did a far better job - and actually a more sensitive job - with the fans waiting outside for the start of Episode II. |
| User ReviewAdam Bi liked this but it was weird. i think it could have been better but its a good movie and i am gonna buy it. |
| User Reviewscott ga homage to starwars fans, more specifically to may 89, with there passion for cueing, while inbetween, getting ot trying to get to bottom why starwars is such a thing to people, a doc that could have been so much better but holds enough nerdy starwars stuff to hold a interest to even the most suspect of them, and i love starwars so it held a little more interest |
| User ReviewBrandy SI think I would've liked this a bit more had the film-maker not seemed to have a slightly snarky tone towards his subject matter at several points during the film. I understand not 'getting' people's obsessions, but to make a bit of fun of the very subject you've decided to do a documentary on just seems like a dick move to me. Also found the decision to end on several people's sad life stories vs. their escapism into Star Wars to be an odd editing decision. It leaves the viewer with a slightly depressed feeling in spite of the narration telling us how great it is that these people find escapism in the films. Worth a look, but if you're a huge fan I could see this actually irritating you. |
| User ReviewGeoff JA doc so dated as to be almost prehistoric |