A Galaxy Far Far Away

Of 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, other than that the sound mix is really murky, the production often sloppy (names of celebrities and Star Wars characters are misspelled, and Jalil fails to turn the mic on for interviews with Bill Murray, Jack Nicholson and Samuel L. Jackson), but the director occasionally scores a good point, as in footage comparing food riots in Kosovo to the midnight madness at Toys "R" Us when the Episode I figures debuted. We're "entertained" along the way by some truly tone-deaf song parodies, and the film's ultimate attempt to make us feel for the weirdos it has thus far mocked isn't particularly successful.