I figured people would hate me for saying this
Trust me, so far as sh!t takes you've given over the past year go, this one is on the mild end, so don't worry about it.
Star Wars episode 9 is good.
Hey, it's a free country.
Episode 9 adds a nice old disney emotions to movie. There is lots of compassion displayed in whole movie.
Okay, but the movie is an incoherent mess. Scavenger hunt story arcs, like the one in the last season of Star Trek: Discovery, don't tend to be any good, but at least with television it's not crammed into an hour or so, which makes for a confusing whiplash. The whole middle chunk of Episode IX was this.
Carrie Fisher's performance as Princess Leia felt flat because, well, she was literally dead and they had to awkwardly squeeze random pre-recorded footage and lines in there, and as a result it felt like there was no real substance to her character in this movie. They could've just retired the character and acknowledged her death but nooooooo. Then they'd lose ticket sales, and they couldn't have that.
On that note, having to prop up a movie with stars from 42 years ago, even going so far as to necromance dead actors, is a sign that the writers lack confidence in the characters they've written in the present. There's a reason people still talk about The Mandalorian and Grogu, whose show came out the same year as Episode IX, but not Rey and Finn: because they're forgettable. Kylo Ren was the closest thing they had to memorable, and everyone hated him. Granted, I suppose that, in show business, hated is better than forgettable, but still.
The movie retconned much of Episode VIII because they'd written themselves into a corner. I guess doing a trilogy and having a different person write/direct each episode is a bad idea, huh. Who would've ever thought? It's not like Hollywood had a cumulative 80+ years of industry experience to caution against trying stupid crap like this.
Finally, they brought back Palpatine from nowhere, because they spent the last two movies setting up Kylo Ren as the big bad only to realize he wasn't up for the task, so they dug up grandpappy's grave and put him in a movie again. In the process they made Anakin's six-movie character arc, which George Lucas made the prequel trilogy in large part to set up, pointless because his sacrifice was meaningless and he wasn't the one to fulfill the prophecy about destroying the Dark Side. He saved Luke's life, only for Luke to not train any Jedi who either survived or weren't already Jedi. He killed the empire, only for it to revive itself out of nowhere 20 or 30 years later.
