May the Fourth: Hour XI

Jabba the Hutt in 100 Words

Remember the time the Star Wars Trilogy turned into a full-on creature feature for a digression from the main plot that took up a full third of a movie? I sure do. Jabba the Hutt and his palace full of yes-men, hangers-on, hired guns, Gamorrean Guards, ravening saurian pit pets, torture droids, women in scandalous attire, Boba Fett, and full-fledged freaks were a peanut-butter-and-chocolate combination of two favorite flavors of Hollywood evil: gangsters and monsters. From the rude door-answering droid to the Rancor to the Sarlacc and everything in between, Jabba made me sit up and say “Bo shuda.”