Return of the Jedi: The Original Radio Drama (Audio Cassette)

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Return of the Jedi: The Original Radio Drama

Authors: Anthony Daniels, George Lucas, Ed Asner, John Lithgow, Highbridge Audio
Features: Unabridged

 Average Customer Rating: 4.36/5.00
Amazon Sales Rank: 215,265
Audio Cassette Release Date: November, 1996
Manufacturer: HighBridge Company

 View on Amazon (ISBN: 1565111575)
Number of Audio Cassettes: 3
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 List Price: $25.95, Amazon Price: $18.17

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Amazon Customer Reviews of this item: (Average Rating is 4.36/5.00)

Rating: 5 [ Forceful listening! ]
I love this adaptation because it brings the movie to life!Complete with the original score by John Williams and realistic sound effects,this is a MUST for any Star Wars fan.Mark Hamil and Anthony Daniels reprise their roles as Luke and C-3PO and John Lithgow and Ed Asner sound just like Yoda and Jabba!This is radio drama expands on the story.It's firt-rate theater of the mind.You'll spend many "Jedi nights"listening to it!

Rating: 3 [ enjoyable but mostly for radio fans or Star Wars completists ]
When NPR's audio adaptation of the first Star Wars film hit the airwaves two decades ago, it was as big a landmark in the history of the Star Wars "universe" as any of the subsequent movies. By stripping the story down to the essentials of character, it proved that the appeal of Star Wars is not merely visual flash, but something more enduring, characters you care about, villains you love to hate and (that oldest of rivalries) good against evil. The writing was excellent and the cast equally good, including as it did Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels as Luke and C3P0 respectively. When NPR produced a radio version of The Empire Strikes Back a few years later, Billy Dee Williams came on board to recreate the role of Lando Calrissian and the producers' winning streak continued.

It would be over a decade before the production team got the chance to complete the trilogy with Return of the Jedi. Sadly, just as Return of the Jedi was the weakest of the original movie trilogy, it is also the weakest of the three radio versions. That is not to say it isn't enjoyable, because it is. Rather it can't quite match the exceptional standards set by the previous two series.

Part of the problem is the casting. Although Anthony Daniels returned to play C3PO, Mark Hamill does not reprise the role of Luke Skywalker. Unfortunately the actor who took the role, Joshua Fardon, does not convey the increased maturity of the character in this part of the story. Fardon's performance has a quality of over-eagerness that seems more suited to the naive farmboy that Luke was when we first encountered him rather than the fully trained Jedi-to-be he is here. Good as the other performances are, especially Brock Peters as Darth Vader and Ann Sachs as Leia, this misguided interpretation of Luke leaves a large hole in the story.

Part of that hole can also be attributed to the writing. Like the previous adapatations, Return of the Jedi was scripted by the late Brian Daley. Daley did a good job of translating what was perhaps the most visual of the three original Star Wars films into the audio medium, but he doesn't open up the story the way the previous two series did. Whereas the radio versions of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back took the time to show us more about the characters, Return of the Jedi is, for the most part, just what we saw on the movie screen with a handful of extra scenes thrown into the mix.

Those criticisms aside, anyone who is a fan of radio drama in general or Star Wars specifically will enjoy these programs. In the final analysis the producers understood the ways in which sound alone can fire the imagination. Using that knowledge, they have crafted yet another fine way to enjoy the magical world that George Lucas has given us.


Rating: 5 [ Star Wars -Return of the Jedi- (Seafire12) ]
This is the last chapter in the Star Wars MOVIE saga but only the begining in the novels saga. Luke finds out some stunning secrets and uses them to the best of his knowledge to bring down the EMPIRE. He finds out the power of the dark side but doesn't give into his hatred! This book is a battle of knowledge between good and evil in my mind! Pure STAR WARS adventure! BUY IT! :)