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08th Aug2022

‘LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation’ Review (Disney+)

by Guest

Featuring the voices of: Kelly Marie Tran, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, Helen Sadler, Omar Benson Miller, Jake Green, Matthew Wood, Dee Bradley Baker, James Arnold Taylor, Kevin Michael Richardson, Kyleigh Curran, Matt Lanter, Matt Sloan, Ross Marquand, Shelby Young, Trevor Devall, Thomas Lennon, Paul F. Tompkins, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic | Written by David Shayne | Directed by Ken Cunningham

After defeating Emperor Palpatine, Rose, Rey, Finn, Poe, and Chewbacca take a vacation. Throughout their adventure, they discover that a number of other Star Wars characters in history have also tried to take vacations…which hasn’t always gone well for them.

We’re officially in the final stretch of summer, and you know what that means… a new LEGO Star Wars movie? Sure, why not? These can be relatively cute and funny films that you can throw on for your young one or put in the background while you’re doing some work or something. It’s kind of hard to sit down and watch these movies and be one-hundred-per cent totally invested in them without getting even a little bored.

There are some good ones out there, some bad ones, and then there are mediocre ones such as the brand new LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation. It takes place after the events of the sequel trilogy and spends its entire running time focusing on Finn, who wants to have the best summer vacation possible with all of his closest friends. He doesn’t really know how to do so, though, which is when he talks to Obi-Wan Kenobi for assistance.

In this 45-minute feature, we are shown a ton of visual gags as well as callbacks to the original, prequel, and sequel trilogy of films that will likely entertain children. As for myself, I didn’t really find myself caring all too much. But, then again, this film isn’t aimed toward me. Not really. Sure, you can watch this as an adult fan of Star Wars, but it was definitely made for young fans of the saga.

Some of the humour here made me smile and chuckle a little while others just made me laugh at how stupid and silly it was. But something that is genuinely impressive to me with all of these movies is how they’re able to make a film using nothing but LEGO characters and worlds. It’s incredibly respectable and it’s certainly something that I could never see myself having the patience to do myself.

All of the voice performances here are solid, too. Yvette Nicole Brown, Kyleigh Curran, Jake Green, Ross Marquand, and Shelby Young in particular do some great stuff with their respective roles, and I could tell that they all had fun with it which was nice. There’s nothing awful or straight-up bad about this film, but it’s also not my kind of movie. To be completely honest with you, I’ll probably forget this film even exists in a day or two, but if you have some young children that just so happen to like Star Wars, they’ll probably get a kick out of this.