Sure there were stormtroopers and fighter pilots and military officers with british accents aboard the Death Star when it exploded, not to mention those gunners with funny masks. But what about the countless workaday joes and janes that made the meals, pressed the linens, and made sure the trash compactors on level five were working? Death Star Repairmen is there to tell their story and, simultaneously, reveals the real reason the Death Star blew up.

This is a well scripted and funny film which pleases all the way along. If Douglas Adams had been given a chance to write a scene of Star Wars, it might have looked something like this.

The acting is terrific and the computer generated sets, while being quite clearly just that, are acceptable. If there is any weak point in the film it would be that the environment doesn't really match the detail of the interior from Episode IV.

As an added bonus, the film's website (deathstarrepairmen.com) is chock full of goodies including parodies of well known comics redrawn with some familiar faces (like Chewy & Han a la Calvin & Hobbes) and an advice column featuring an indoctrination droid, AB-348T.

With the film and the website, you can kill a whole afternoon at work pleasurably. The sort of thing two certain repairmen probably wished they would have done instead of sticking to their job.

review: March 13, 2004
last update: April 6, 2004
webmaster: Lars Lee

Utinni! "Yeehaa!"

Hubba "Yum yum."

Piece of Stuff "Not bad if you overlook the broken bits."

Broken Droid "Needs fixed."

Bantha Poodoo "Avoid at all cost."

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