DEATH STAR REPAIRMEN
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review written 5/15/2003

Sometimes all a comedy needs is a good idea, and Death Star Repairmen has that idea. It joins Pink Five and Trooper Clerks (animated) in the grand tradition of comedic alternate history to the Battle of Yavin, showing what two repairmen were up to that fateful day and how they contributed to the destruction of the battle station.

The costumes look accurate (or as accurate as we would imagine them). The effects look good by comedy standards. The props are good too, very much in the Imperial style.

The banal dialogue is a clever idea, but I would have liked to hear some actual jokes from the repairmen, not just shop talk.

I do wonder, too, if the coffee machine was not a nod to Mr. Coffee in Spaceballs, and if this film owes something to the Clerks dialogue about independent contractors on the second Death Star.

But in the end, it works out. This flick's a keeper, and I'll be hitting up their excellent Web site again once the DVD is ready.