Robot Chicken Star Wars: Episode II (2009)

The Emmy-nominated Robot Chicken: Star Wars II contains a 22-minute, 30-skit special episode from Season 3 plus a 15-minute, 3-skit "extended" offering. RC: SW II is even funnier than the first offering and the feature content shows what a field day the RC production team had at Lucasfilm for the disc premiere. Contents: 1 (Boba Fett slaughters Ewoks until Leia does a striptease), 2 (Palpatine rebuilds Vader), 3 (Palpatine's barber suggests bounty hunters), 4 (Geonosian arena in a monster-truck-rally commercial), 5 (Leia mocks Luke's loss of Ben since she lost a planet), 6 (Stormtrooper brings smart daughter to work), 7 (medical droid points out SW movie inaccuracies), 8 (Admiral Ackbar's Fish Sticks jingle is rejected), 9 (stormtrooper mourns fellow trooper killed by Leia), 10 (mouse pilots mouse droid), 11 (Anakin kills younglings by pretending to pick flowers for Padme), 12 (two AT-ATs race), 13 (dragon critiques notion of planets like all-ice Hoth, all-forest Endor etc. before 3PO passes its skeleton on all-desert Tatooine), 14 (Palpatine lords it over Vader, calls for bounty hunters), 15 (Jar Jar sells car insurance a la Geico), 16 (bounty hunters accept Palpatine's mission), 17 (Lando comments on Slave I), 18 ("Moesha Poppins" retread in awkward banquet with Vader on Cloud City), 19 (Attorney Bob Goldstein sues Jedi who sever limbs), 20 (parody before Han Solo is frozen in carbonite), 21 (Vader continually alters the deal with Lando), 22 (Luke imagines idyllic father-son times with Vader, falls to death), 23 (apartment-seeking couple in Cloud City), 24 (Admiral Ackbar sees Jedi order calamari), 25 (Boba Fett spins tale of brave battle and leap into Sarlacc), 26 (Palpatine has a bad day), 27 (Luke removes Vader's helmet, crew member snaps photo with cell phone), 28 (Ewoks killed by falling chunks of Death Star), 29 (chickens sing SW theme), 30 (two Imperial officers decide to abandon planets full of weapons, ships, and soldiers after loss of Palpatine and Death Star). Extended skits: 1 (Tusken Raider startles, flees bar), 2 (Anakin's family laughs at his mother's death, he gets last laugh), 3 (bounty hunter in fight scene similar to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom). 4 stars. (6-5-2011)