Just when you thought that George Lucas had wrung the last drop of life from the Star Wars franchise he ups the ante once more and re-re-re-releases the whole saga in blu-ray, complete with the usual plethora of unnecessary edits and insertions. Apparently, in the dramatic finale of Return of the Jedi when Vader throws the emperor down into the abyss, Lucas has now inserted a loud "Noooooooooooooooooo!" and doubtless he has meddled yet again with what used to be, at least for me, a precious part of my childhood.

Now, I didn't mind the prequels and think everybody was over the moon when Lucas announced that he was reutrning to the franchise, but who would have guessed that he would also break the sacred seal and start playing around with the original film? First we had Han Solo's famous under-the-table gunshot at the start of New Hope in which he blasts another trader with a sneaky blindside, being total re-made so that Solo merely responds to an attempt on his life! Then we had all the awful Jabba-The-Hut inserts and new animation which simply look awful and add almost nothing to the story. Worst still is all the needless re-rendering of skyline and backdrop which violently clashes with the original film. In short he took something that was wonderful and fucked it...hard. Not content to make a mockery of Indian Jones he his now relentless altering and subverting his sci-fi masterpiece. Leave it alone George!