The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special: Season 1

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Disney+ | Season Premiere Date: November 17, 2020

Summary: After the events of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, while Rey's friends prepare for the Wookiee festival of Life Day, she and BB-8 end up at a Jedi temple where meets others from the past including Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Yoda.

Genre(s): Animation, Drama, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, Events & Specials

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IndieWire Christian Blauvelt

Nov 17, 2020

What’s surprising is how moving “The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special” ultimately becomes. Read full review

Collider Drew Taylor

Nov 16, 2020

It’s funny and zippy and puts the life back in Life Day. If there was anything that could rehab the stigma of the original Star Wars Holiday Special, this is it. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Nov 16, 2020

The 1978 "Star Wars Holiday Special" has become the stuff of legend for how notoriously, epically bad it was, which provides some indication that "The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special" -- with that title alone -- knows precisely what it's doing. The resulting animated hour delivers a clever romp through "Star Wars" history, smartly snapped together and wrapped in a bright, colorful bow. Read full review

Will Thorne

Nov 16, 2020

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. It will keep the lockdown blues at bay for 40 minutes, but it certainly won’t cure fans’ nagging uncertainty over when the next title scrawl will be marching down the big screen. Read full review

Angelica Cataldo

Nov 16, 2020

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. Read full review

Robert Levin

Nov 16, 2020

Parents looking to share their "Star Wars" love with their children should add this to the list. It's not essential viewing for anyone else. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Nov 16, 2020

“The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special” is a studiously inoffensive mess, being both self-conscious and desperate-to-please, but also unfocused and un-funny. Read full review

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TheQuietGamer

Jul 6, 2021

If they were intent on revisiting the "Life Day" concept these 42 years later, doing so under the LEGO brand was undoubtedly the right move. It allows them to fully revel in just how absurd the idea of a Star Wars themed holiday special is without having any effect on the actual continuity.If they were intent on revisiting the "Life Day" concept these 42 years later, doing so under the LEGO brand was undoubtedly the right move. It allows them to fully revel in just how absurd the idea of a Star Wars themed holiday special is without having any effect on the actual continuity. For the most part it's a bunch of meaningless fluff. Cute, but unlikely to stand alongside the likes of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as your next yearly seasonal rewatch. It's worth checking out once though.

Children are definitely the target audience for this special as most of the humor doesn't evolve much beyond "haha, look at this character doing a silly dance." Still, older viewers can find amusement in things like the more clever references to the series' history or how it absolutely ridicules the sequel trilogy. I'm actually surprised Disney allowed this to be made given how much it skewers their biggest contribution to the franchise. Seriously, writer David Shayne seems to harbor the same amount of disdain for J.J. Abrams' vision of Star Wars as Rian Johnson.

The Rise of Skywalker receives most of the abuse here as the special goes out of its way to ignore the events of that movie despite being set after it. If you remove the silliness and non-canon nature of the project it would actually make for a better episode 9 than the one we got. The subplot of Rey training Finn to be a jedi feels like something we actually should have seen happen at some point in that trilogy and it introduces Emperor Palpatine to the mix in a far more satisfying manner than Abrams did.

None of this will exactly leave you clamoring for more, but if you're a hardcore member of the fan base or a more casual appreciator with kids who share your enthusiasm you can pop this on one Christmas season and not feel like you wasted your time. It offers some genuinely funny moments while showing a willingness for the franchise to acknowledge its missteps and poke some healthy fun at them. So in a way, Life Day has kind of been redeemed here.

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  Air Date: November 17, 2020
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