Film Brain reviews a documentary that reveals everything you'd ever want to know about the notorious Star Wars Holiday Special, a relic of the late 70s that refuses to be consigned to a galaxy far, far away...
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00:00 Everything you wanted to know about the Star Wars Holiday Special but were too afraid to ask is in the new documentary,
00:05 A Disturbance in the Force, now on VOD.
00:08 This is a doc focused on the making of the notorious special, including those involved with it, such as Bruce Falange,
00:13 as well as a number of celebrity talking heads, including Weird Al, Seth Green, Kevin Smith, Paul Shear, Bobcat Goldthwait,
00:20 and the late Gilbert Godfrey.
00:22 It does contain a number of tidbits about the special that I hadn't heard about before,
00:26 including just how troubled it was behind the scenes, going massively over budget and firing the director days in.
00:33 But it also takes a sideways glance at the variety shows of the 70s to contextualise it,
00:39 and Donny Osmond has a surprising amount of screen time talking about his brief foray as Luke Skywalker in a very cringey skit.
00:47 It's a fun and often quite amusing documentary that serves as a light-hearted retrospective of that weird moment
00:52 between the original Star Wars and Empire where people just couldn't really work out what to do with Star Wars.