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Film · Lucasfilm · 1983

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Return of the Jedi

66Worth an evening.

The father saves the son, and then the movie sells you the bears.

The review

The night ends where it should: a father who will not stand and watch his son be killed, and then a funeral fire. Luke has already been told Vader is his father. He learns Leia is his sister. The family news arrives late, and the fire is what makes it more than a reveal.

There is also a second Death Star and a forest full of ewoks. The battle is easy to cheer. The ewoks were the toy aisle, and they did their job on a generation of bedrooms. If you put this on, stay for the fire and say what it was. Do not let the plush ending be the only thing a child repeats.

Journal

Keep Return of the Jedi in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Spider-Man 2

73 instead of 66

Spider-Man 2 is still a adventure film, and it scores 73 instead of 66. What you gain is industry: Pizza, rent, classes.

The eight

4
Industry
No one holds a civilian job. The labor is a war against a second Death Star.
8
Household
A father will not watch his son die, and the boy learns his sister before the fire.
8
Piety
He will not strike his father down, and that refusal is what turns the ending.
8
Courage
He faces the man who could kill him on a battle station built as a trap.
7
Republic
Rebels bring down a weapon an empire built to keep them afraid.
5
Temperance
He lays the rage aside. The ewoks were built to keep the wanting going.
7
Truth
What he was told about his father holds, and the funeral fire is the receipt.
6
Stewardship
A father is buried and a tyranny falls. The toy aisle outlived the fire.

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Film · Prime Video · 2012

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ParaNorman

66Worth an evening.

Fear faced by understanding, not by a spear. Good for a child who can take a ghost.

The review

Norman is bullied for a gift that is mostly the willingness to hear. The town prefers a mob and a story about a witch. The film's turn, that the cursed child was a frightened child and the curse was the town's, is the right turn. It does not ask you to pretend the dead are cute from the first minute. It asks you to stop the torch.

Some of the jokes are ruder than the fable needs. The fable holds. A house can watch it near Halloween and come out less eager to chant at the odd boy. That is a rare result for a cartoon with zombies.