Rifftrax has taken on several movie franchises with a little good-natured heckling like with the Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, or utter contempt like Twilight, the Star Wars prequels or Sharknado.
In the case of The Last Jedi, there may have been a little of both. While the movie is, deep down, the passing of the torch from Darth Vader, Luke and Leia to Rey, Finn and Kylo Ren, some people were surprised on the decisions the story made. It still did pretty good in the box office, though.
This also marks the ninth Star Wars movie the riffers have seen, with Solo coming something in the fall. That's more than Harry Potter.
The gang of Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett took aim at at lot of the movie, especially Kylo Ren's looks, Rose repeating the plot as the movie went on, Luke Skywalker being a hermit, Benicio De Toro's acting, and the fact that Star Wars movies seem to happen every month. They jam a lot of riffs into two and a half hours.
The story is Rey trying to get Luke off the island to help the Resistence. There's also Kylo and Rey "connecting" and almost joining together, a breakout character in Rose, Poe almost being Han Solo although his droid pal actually does more, and Leia making what would turn out to be her final performance (especially how she gets out of being blasted into space).
There are dozens of good riffs, but let's look at five:
The first meeting between Rey and Luke, where she gives him his Lightsaber..and he tosses it aside
His agent just called. He got the green light for Corvette Summer 2
Leia's blasted into space, but the Force saves her
I knew all that coke in my bloodstream would come in handy
Luke boards the Millennium Falcon for the first time in years
It's like a hobo snuck aboard Air Force One
Rey and Kylo "connect" and "touch" hands
In the Jedi religion, they're married now
The ghost of Yoda tells Luke "the greatest teacher, failure is"
If that were true, then why are these no better than the original prequels?
There's also riffs on Amazon Dash, Ex Machina, Monster Mash, Bismark, ND and Norman Spears Jr...and that's only the beginning.
As usual, it's at the Rifftrax website, along with a section for riffs of the other movies of the franchise.
Solo is coming up next, and it'll make sense one of them will take notes. They've already done the same to Ready Player One because they hated the book.
Of course, if they had the nerve, they'd also take on Infinity War and Avengers 4: Wait, Did We Lose Eleven Billion Dollars Thanks To The Ending? We shall see.
