If you look carefully, the additional 40 minutes referred to above is 40 minutes taken
out i.e. my attempt at sardonic humour.
I suppose the reason I'm critical of these movies is that:
a) I don't like George Lucas. He seems so smug and arrogant for no good reason.
b) I genuinely think what B-movie charm & humour the original trilogy had is not present in the 3 new movies (they take themselves far too seriously)
c) I imagine how good these movies could have been had George Lucas had the foresight not to completely CGI everything in sight to then point where there's not much difference between this film and the animated series!
And you're right - kids will love this for the same reasons kids loved the first one. Not too taxing mentally and lots of bright colours and explosions
