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"Awsome movie", This movie, and the other part of the trilogy, as well, are the best of Lucas Film.

This time the movie was re-edited and digital improvement helping you to see in the new format of DVD and TV.

I bought this one and the other of the trilogy to have all the original in my house... and because now are seeing them by my son.


"100+ Words on a truly great movie!", Not to get into the whole "Clerks" which movie was better argument here, but I always liked "Return of The Jedi" better then "Empire Strikes Back". The reason I love "Jedi" is that within this film you get everything that you saw in the first two within one movie. The amazing opening act at Jabba's palace and the skiff battle. Luke becoming a Jedi master on Degobah. Then the amazing third act. Luke and Vader's final battle, the battle on Endor with Han, Leia, Chewie, and the Ewoks against the storm troopers. And of course in my opinion the greatest space battle of the Star Wars saga. I remember when I was a little kid, watching that space battle and how I was amazed by it. That was one of the first great movie experiences for me as a movie lover. "Return of the Jedi" is everything you could ever want in a Star Wars movie, but beyond that everything you could want in a truly great movie.

"2 stars for comedy value", I've been watching the SW movies again lately out of nostalgia. I don't think I;ve seen any of them since I was 10, except the 7-hour long toy commercial known as the Prequel Trilogy. This one, ROTJ, sucks. Terrible acting, horrible dialogue, plot full of gaping holes, cheesy effects, all of that. Cool when I was a kid, worthless now. I did get several laughs out of it, especially during the climactic battle, during which the "writers" spontaneously invent new rules for the force:

- If a jedi slices off your hand, it will mess up your whole program, a mortral wound (exception, if the jedi doing the slicing is a bad guy, no problem, you get a robot hand and you're good to go)

- If a jedi is firing lightning at you from his fingertips, he is 100% vulnerable to the secret jedi attack of... Grabbing A Dude From Behind and Hoisting Him In The Air (an arcane jedi technique I'm sure Luke spent hours perfecting with yoda)

- Luke employs a heretofore unknown jedi art... Jedi Hide And Seek!!!!

By the way, they seem to have grafted a musical number onto the jabba's palace portion of the movie, so bad that I would have rather had film of George Lucas dragging his nails across a chalkboard for three minutes. It would have been more enjoyable and less out-of-place.

"A great ending to a great trilogy!", So what about the Ewoks, it's always been for kids. And this is the weakest of the three, only cause the rest are so great! See it.

"To restore freedom to the galaxy", RETURN OF THE JEDI was the STAR WARS film which thrilled me most as a kid. I loved the ewoks, though now I find them to be a bit irritating. I loved the scenes in Jabba's palace, though now I think the use of Jim Henson's Creature Workshop was a bit over the top. I loved and still love the fast paced action sequences and the climactic lightsaber duel at the end. Looking back, I now prefer EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, A NEW HOPE, and even REVENGE OF THE SITH to this one. But JEDI still ranks high in my book, if for no other reason, it was just downright fun. And it still is.

The Special Edition of this film did little more than bog it down with a lot of useless junk. I refer primarily to the musical (using that word rather loosely) interlude in Jabba's palace. I'm sure I laughed at it first time I saw it in theaters in 1997, but since then only irritated feelings have I felt for that scene. The celebration scenes at the end were fine, but I don't think anyone ever missed their absence. Superimposing Hayden Christensen's image in "spirit" next to Alec Guiness and Yoda at the end seemed to me rather bizarre. Luke "saved" his father. When this happened his father did not bear Hayden Christensen's image but that of actor Sebastian Shaw. So why do we see a young Anakin at the end of the film instead of the old, dying man who got "redeemed"?

All this to say I don't think RETURN OF THE JEDI is worth watching in the special edition format; which makes me all the gladder that it has now been presented to us as we saw it in its original form in 1983.

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"Good product, fast from Amazon.", As advertised. Good quality image on 720p and 1080i HD TV's. Completely happy.

"Joy! Another Cash in DVD.", I love the Star Wars movies. They have proven to be the greatest Sci-fi movies ever and I love them.

I own the movies DVD and VHS. I own the 1977 versions on VHS AND the 1997 versions. And trust me, the 1997 version was NOT needed, yet they still proved to be good.

Now there's this "2004 Special Version" that was relesed over a year and a half ago. This is NOT the special edition, IT'S THE EXACT SAME THING AS THE THEATRICAL 1977 VERSION, just with bad CGI effects added in.

Lucas, STOP CONTRADICTING YOURSELF. Us fans have already seen the 1977 versions and we don't need another cut. You just want our money, no matter what currency. We already have seen what we need to see.

Now, I own 2 VHS sets and 2 DVD sets. I feel I wasted my money on the 2004 Special Editions. Plus, the other DVD set showed the films the way they were meant to be seen: 5.1 Surround Sound, Anamorphic Widescreen, and amped up picture.

In Closing: DAMNIT LUCAS, LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE!!!!!!

""The circle is now complete"", "Return of the Jedi" brings the original Star Wars trilogy to a thrilling close, mirroring the later "Revenge of the Sith." The movie opens in the subterranean pit home of the giant space slug, Jabba the Hutt, with Princess Leia his captive in a metallic bikini. The handsome Han Solo now serves as a decorative installation. Luke Skywalker, clad in black like a monk,comes to Jabba to rescue his friends. But it's easier said than done....

"Return" has exciting sequences- from Luke&his friends battling it out over a desert creature that is a toothed pit, to Luke battling one of Jabba's cave trolls for sport. Luke,Leia,and Han end up having to destroy the new Death Star--but they have to go to Endor,the land of the Ewoks. (Endor has its roots in the Bible. In the Old Testament, King Saul consults the Witch of Endor to speak to the dead prophet Samuel) Endor is a beautiful forest planet-mirroring Dagobah,Yoda's rural home as well as Alderaan,the destroyed planet of Leia. Again, it is about the triumph of Nature. Luke ends up battling the Emperor,as well as redeeming his father Darth Vader. One of the most gripping scenes is when Luke removes Darth's mask, revealing his ravaged,pale face. Darth sacrifices himself to save his son. The father/son bond is redeemed (strangely,he doesn't reconcile with his daughter Leia-maybe the fact he had her tortured in "A New Hope" scuttled that) The finale shows the peoples of the universe rejoicing. Han&Leia finally declare their love for each other.

"Return of the Jedi" is not the strongest of the trilogy-"Empire" takes those honors. Still,it's great fun and stands as a classic. It's a classic worth returning to again and again.

"What hath George wrought?", First let me begin by saying that I love this movie. Along with New Hope and Empire, it is a cherished part of my childhood that I still cherish and enjoy more than twenty years later. Sure Empire (my favorite) is better, and sure the Ewoks can be a little silly, but on the whole the film is immensely enjoyable and does a great job of bringing to a close the greatest ever film trilogy. In particular, the scenes in Jabba's palace and the action sequence during the escape at the Sarlacc pit are awesome, and the confrontation between Luke, Vader, and the Emperor are among the most dramatic and atmospheric in the entire trilogy.

Unfortunately, this film has also suffered the most from Lucas' constant meddling. I am not opposed to minor additions that improve the cinematic experience, i.e. the improved special effects during the destruction of the Death Stars, or the detailed, three dimensional close-ups of X-Wings drifting by in space, and especially the overall digital remastering which makes the films look larger than life on screen. But there are other additions that call attention to themselves and look out of place, such as the ridiculous scene with Han and Jabba or the CGI addition of alien beasts at Mos Eisley in Episode IV. One of the many things that made the original trilogy so superior to its prequels was its tangibility, the fact that what you are watching is real for the most part, even when they are using models and trick photography. Using today's technology to insert CGI aliens into the original is intrusive and very noticeable. They all seem to stand out from their backgrounds.

There were a few additions in "Return" which I didn't appreciate. One was the venus fly trap-like addition to the Sarlacc pit, which I thought was unnecessary but I suppose can be tolerated. I also don't like seeing Old Anakin being replaced by Young Anakin standing next to Yoda and Obi-Wan at the end. Should Anakin look as he did when he died, or as he did when he was last a Jedi? I would prefer to see the old Anakin, because seeing Hayden Christensen is a reminder of his terrible performance and the other terrible trilogy (on another level, I don't think Anakin, who murdered billions, should be allowed to stand next to them at all, but what's done is done).

Also, the song at the end of the film, the "Ewok Song" has been replaced with what some would consider a more palateable song, accompanied by CGI images of worlds around the galaxy celebrating the death of the Emperor. Some may diagree with me, but I preferred the old song, not only because I like it better, but because it's the song that closes out the entire trilogy. That alone makes it one of the most memorable songs in the trilogy, and those who watched the trilogy growing up remember seeing the entire cast gather together for one last shot with that song playing in the background. For better or worse (I think better), it should have remained.

But by far the worst of these additions is the new song inserted into the scene at Jabba's palace. Why, oh why, did George feel the need to change this, and if he absolutey had to change it, how could he do such a terrible job? I thought the old music was cool! In its place is a ridculous, annoying, cheesy, cartoonish musical number that sounds wildly out of place, sung by new CGI aliens that look wildly out of place in their surroundings and look like they were taken from a Disney Pixar movie. The fact that George thought that this was an improvement does not speak well for him (neither do Episodes 1-3), and the fact that he thought that we the fans would think likewise is downright insulting, not only as Star Wars purists but as people!!

This is the kind of meddling that makes Star Wars fans yearn for the original theatrical versions. For these, all Lucas would have had to do was digitally remaster the originals and give them an anamorphic widescreen transfer, which was probably done for Weekend At Bernie's 2 and Ernest Goes To Camp, but is apparently too much for the most popular film trilogy ever made. It seems that George has added insult to insult by offering substandard versions that seem to say "So your not happy with my versions? You wanna buy the laser-disc versions? Here you go. Choke on 'em." How else to explain? Why go through the effort of releasing them if you're not going to offer a quality product? Now you've released them, printed who knows how many, packaged them with who knows how many copies of the Special Edition, and all you've done is anger your fans and rip them off. Tired of Star Wars fanatics breathing down your neck? Then give them what they want. It's not that hard. Do it right!

"The Final Battle Begins", Though Mr. Lucas has given us the oppurtunity to see what happened before and after his amazing saga, this is the phenomenal end to a great story. All ends are tied up, and the finish couldn't be more perfect. The war is entering its final stages, and an age old enemy has returned to haunt the galaxy. Our hero has learned the truth, and now he wishes to change his and the galaxy's future with the knowledge of it. The final battle will be intense, and the legendary prophecy we all know, might be fullfilled at last.