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I don't care if this movie was written by a Wookie. It will make billions. It has become a must-see for everyone under 50. Oh, there will be holdouts; I myself will either wait for DVD or sneak into a cheap matinee after the hysteria dies down. But this movie will become part of our cultural fabric, for good or ill. After all, Episode One did. And it was horrible.

And Podhoretz has it right: it's the writing that makes these movies stink. That and the acting. Improbable, silly lines uttered by talentless posers do not make for good cinema. All the cutesy crap -- R2D2, C3PO, the Jawas, the Ewoks, even that stupid Wookie -- just makes the movies even more pathetic, since they're as transparent as comic elements as Vader is as a Bad Guy. Vader is supposed to be larger than life. And to a large degree, he is. But the rest of the cast? Pygmies. And Anankin? Puhleeeze. He's Darth Vader like Don Knotts is Vin Diesel.