Robot Chicken: Star Wars (2007) (TV)

Director:

Seth Green

Writers:

Jordan Allen-Dutton (writer)
Mike Fasolo (writer)

Release Date:

17 June 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Spend Father's Day with who really raised you... Star Wars.

Plot Keywords:

Gore | Actor Playing Himself | Stop Motion | Sketch Comedy | Spoof

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Candace Bailey	...	Princess Leia Organa / Various (voice)
Abraham Benrubi	...	Darth Vader (voice)
Bob Bergen	...	Various (voice)
Ahmed Best	...	Jar Jar Binks / AT-AT Driver (voice)
Donald Faison	...	Evazan / Mace Windu (voice)
Joey Fatone	...	Himself (voice)
Keith Ferguson	...	Han Solo (voice)
Seth Green	...	Various (voice)
Mark Hamill	...	Luke Skywalker (voice) (archive sound)
Hulk Hogan	...	Abraham Lincoln (voice) (archive sound)
Tom Kane	...	C-3PO (voice)
George Lucas	...	Himself (voice)
Seth MacFarlane	...	Emperor Palpatine (voice)
Malcolm McDowell	...	Orientation Instructor (voice)
Breckin Meyer	...	Admiral Ackbar / Boba Fett / Various (voice)
Dan Milano	...	Various (voice)
Chad Morgan	...	Various (voice)
Conan O'Brien	...	Ponda Baba's Boss / Zuckuss (voice)
Robert Smigel	...	Palpatine Parody (voice)
Adam Talbot	...	Various (voice)
James Van Der Beek	...	Bush's Aide (voice) (archive sound)

Runtime:

USA:30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Australia:MA | Singapore:PG

Company:

Lucasfilm

Quotes:

Luke Skywalker: Your overconfidence is your weakness.
Palpatine: Your faith in your friends is yours.
Luke Skywalker: Not my faith in yo momma...
Palpatine: What was that?
Luke Skywalker: I said yo momma's so fat, Jabba the Hutt said DAAAAAMN!
Palpatine: Well, your mother is so ugly she put the 'ug' in 'ugnaught!'
Darth Vader: Ohh, yo momma fight!
[Cut to next scene. Luke and Palpatine are on stage in front of a crowd]
Luke Skywalker: Yo momma's so stupid, she spent all day saying 'am not' to R2!
Palpatine: Your mother is so fat, that Ben Kenobi said 'That's no moon, that's yo momma!'
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Family Guy: Blue Harvest (#6.1)" (2007)

great even if you've barely ever watched regular Robot Chicken!

This was fantastic, crazy, immature and joyfully stupid/joyously witty parody on all things Star Wars. What's great is that you don't need to be a Robot Chicken fan (though I'm sure it helps) or even have watched it very much to decide either way. If you like your parodies quick and skit-like and random and sometimes just dumb as hell, Robot Chicken: Star Wars is something of a minor masterpiece in the form. Seth Green's collage of classic bits from the movie redone, and then lampooned from all corners (there' "Dr. Ball" featuring the big black orb that tortured Princess Leia, there's Admiral Ackbar cereal, there's George W. Bush thinking he's a Jedi and pitting his "mind-trick" on a WMD question, there's even a running "gag" involving Jar-Jar becoming a "ghost" torturing Darth Vader). There's barely a moment when I didn't laugh out loud, or find something actually really funny and creative in its wit and, as a fan of the saga, obscure bits that only people who've seen the film 10 or 20 times would get (i.e. that blue guy playing the piano at Jabba's palace pushing an album wit songs like "I'm not an elephant!"), or just obvious gags that only come on late at night (i.e. Luke and Leia in bed, "This is so... wrong.")

Granted, it may take a certain sense of humor or just familiarity with the Star Wars films to get some of the gags- those who aren't keen on the prequels may not remember what midiclorians (sic) are let alone how the jokes lock in step in the show- but for those that get it, it's priceless. Only minor personal geek-type liability: no Yoda!