First published in The Sydney Morning Herald on October 27, 1977



STAR WARS (NRC, Hoyts Entertainment Centre).

Oh, the astronomical audiences; oh, the mundane story; oh, the over-cute little robots (one fat, one thin); oh, the vapid actors, the galactic shootouts; oh, the brilliant technology and oh, the boredom of it all.

George Lucas, who directed Star Wars, wrote the film. He is no Asimov, Bradbury or Le Guin, no master of imagination or language.

In his space fantasy, the dialogue is as dull as that spoken by those brave men, the astronauts.