HOUSE
WARS
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review written 2/23/2003
It's difficult to top Two-Ness, and House Wars, a parody of "The Real World"-type reality shows, doesn't. This is okay.
The opening crawl looks terrible (this is not okay) but is a funny read. Then we see Darth Vader in a bathrobe. This is instant comedy. Star Wars characters eating breakfast together = funny. Yes. The audio mixing here needs work, though.
Yoda is impressive for a simple spoof. Leia (played nicely by Amy Thomas) delivers a comic monologue with charm and grace.
The television viewing is good for a laugh (again, Yoda steals the show).
Han's section falls flat, unfortunately. It's simply too obvious. From then on, the movie simply starts to run out of steam. Collection-of-joke movies are hard to pull off.
Yoda makes this work. See it just for him.