"...Skywalker is dull-witted..."

Okay, seriously, the most unintentionally funny thing I've read in a while is Miss Manners' review of The Empire Strikes Back. It was written when the film first came out, and has gems like the following:

"It is hard to avoid the suspicion that Skywalker is dull-witted -- for various reasons, he is hanging upside down during most of this film..."

I like the fact Luke was pretty much figured to be the dumbass of the Skywalker line from the very beginning. And he does spend an awful lot of time hanging upside-down in Empire...

There is one black, Billy Dee Williams as a man who seems to have been set up with his own planet by the Small Business Administration and keeps complaining that he has "no choice" about betraying everyone.

I missed the comma after "black", so I read it as "There is one black Billy Dee Williams..." and thought "Well, yes, that's true. But what does that have to do with anything?"

Skywalker is never called to account for having behaved unpleasantly to his guru before knowing who he is -- even to the extent of knocking food out of the hungry guru's hand. How many religions of any kind would tolerate a disciples having refused to share his food with his disguised spiritual leader?

To be fair, though, Yoda totally deserved it, the little green bitch.