This Christmas season, Disney+ will present The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special, an update of the old film for a new generation of fans and their toys.
The most important difference of all: The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special is charming and funny and an extremely pleasant way to pass 47 minutes.
There are unloved Star Wars movies and then there’s The Star Wars Holiday Special — a TV film so hideously awful that George Lucas never allowed it to re-air following its premiere in the winter of 1978.
Given the LEGO Star Wars shows’ sarcastic tone, it would have been nice to see the LEGO Holiday Special more directly adapt (or more directly make fun of) the original show.