The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special

The new and improved Holiday Special remixes the Star Wars timeline with plenty of neat gags. The Force is fun with this one.

While, what follows doesn't quite reach the anarchic, reverential and hilarious heights of say Droid Tales or The Freemaker Adventures, there's still plenty to admire and revel in, whether you're a casual consumer or ardent fan of the Star Wars Universe.

The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special might just be an unexpected treat for those looking for an extra bit of closure on the Skywalker Saga. It is all at once abundantly silly, cringingly corny, and marvelously meta.

The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special amps up that cheesiness in the best way possible, taking all the bad with the good, in a charming ode to the 1978 television special.

Ultimately, The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special doesn't so much tell a story as spit out callbacks that seem to have come from a random Star Wars reference generator.

Will people remember this, for better or worse, with the vividness they did the 1978 original? Will it become legendary? Maybe not. But sometimes it's more fun not to be a legend.

At the end of the (Life) day, The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special is a fun, self-contained adventure which feels a few bricks short of a full Star Wars load.

While squarely aimed at children, this Holiday Special offers a lot for Star Wars fans to enjoy. Redemption for the 1978 monstrosity, this is.

A studiously inoffensive mess, being both self-conscious and desperate-to-please, but also unfocused and un-funny.

A clever romp through Star Wars history, smartly snapped together and wrapped in a bright, colorful bow.