Comments on: And so you're back, from outer space ...

And so you're back, from outer space ...

WCityMike — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:04:09 -0800

Not literate analysis. Not a fresh insight into a perennial problem ransacking the world. Not an obituary. But ... well ... Chewbacca dancing with a Jawa to "Footloose", Leia singing to Padme that "mommy dear, girls just want to have fun" (with a Gamorrean Guard with a red-haired fright wig), and were I to tell you the third ...

... that'd spoil it, but suffice it to say the heavy breathing's well-suited to that number. Then, next up, we have the prior year, where a pair of star-crossed siblings who oddly give off a Donny & Marie-type vibe, and a couple of exes meet up and sound off. And if you've chafed at your childhood memories being ransacked in such an amateur fashion, then have them professionally assassinated by LucasFilm in CGI. If you need an antacid after all that, this really isn't half-bad (it really needs to be seen larger for the scale of it, but that link's a download). (And here's a few more antacids.)

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:07:21 -0800

(I'm just sayin', you ain't gonna usually run across a Rancor dancing to Chumbawumba.)

By: Frank Grimes

Frank Grimes — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:26:25 -0800

Fortunately George Lucas' latest Indiana Jones saga gave us the term "nuke the fridge" to describe this Star Wars dance phenomenon.

By: PlusDistance

PlusDistance — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:29:46 -0800

These were not the nerds I was looking for.

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:31:36 -0800

If you watch a lot of the Cantina Crawls (the "antacid" links), it's really funny (in a mocking-funny sense) how they go from very lighthearted fun ("Hot Hot Hot", etc.) to "we're quite serious people" ("True Colors") to very indignant and self-righteous ("we is bein' repressed by the Evil Corporation!").

By: ericales

ericales — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:31:41 -0800

I dunno. I thought it was awesome.

By: FritoKAL

FritoKAL — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:47:23 -0800

Thank you very much for posting this. I needed a laugh very badly as I was having a terrible afternoon and this provided many.

By: milquetoast

milquetoast — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:11:07 -0800

I'm happy that all my undergrad drama friends are gainfully employed. Keep reaching for the stars, y'all!

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:25:22 -0800

Same planet, different worlds.

By: rmd1023

rmd1023 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:40:59 -0800

that's some goofball fun right there. although when i see storm troopers dancing, all i can think of is the musical edition of star wars, which had tap-dancing stormtroopers.

By: revmitcz

revmitcz — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:50:26 -0800

It felt cheesy and wrong and I wanted to look away. But I just HAD to know what that 3rd one featuring Vader was. Out of mere reflex, I smiled and actually clapped out loud for a second. I'm starting to think Disney bought my soul as a child and controls my smile via remote. But maybe this video helped me to realize that important fact.

By: phoque

phoque — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:51:06 -0800

Crazy.

By: darkstar

darkstar — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:10:44 -0800

Darth Vogue!

By: bjrn

bjrn — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:11:14 -0800

Thanks for the post, especially that third bit in the first video was great. Although now I want to see storm troopers line dancing, or perhaps doing one of those silly Riverdance things. I guess the closest the internet has gotten to that so far is the R2D2 Chorus Line.

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:21:01 -0800

bjrn, your wish is my command: Stormtroopers linedancing. With Bill Shatner, even.

By: smoothvirus

smoothvirus — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:29:39 -0800

god. this is worse than the christmas special.

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:51:18 -0800

smoothvirus: "god. this is worse than the christmas special." NOTHING is worse than Carrie Fisher singing to the tune of Star Wars. Nothing.