LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy Review - Latest Animated Special Brings Loads of Fun With An Emotional Twist (2024)

It's that time of the year again -- Star Wars fans' annual date with an animated LEGO special on Disney Plus. This year, the toy company and Lucasfilm decided to play around with the formula with LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy. A tradition that started in 2020 as a 45-minute harmless adventure, meant to capture the original intention of the old Holiday Special, has now veered into a license to play around, make fun of, and repurpose whatever exists in the Star Wars canon to tell a new adventure. This year, they went one step further, doing four 20-minute episodes and pondering the question: What if?

Scruffy-looking nerfherder Sig Greebling (Gaten Matarazzo) has been telling the stories of the Skywalker family to his friends for a long time, though despite the wonderous feeling of adventure that they are meant to inspire in the listener, he's never dreamed of anything other than spending the rest of his days working on the smallest planet in the galaxy. By his side, his brother Dev (Tony Revolori) looks at the stars wondering when they will line up for him to finally leave this place. The galaxy is turned inside out after the two accidentally come across an old Jedi Temple (not too safely guarded by a Jedi who does not want to go by the name Bob) and alter the very fabric that keeps the galaxy together.

When Jedi Bob, Sig, and the latter's lovable droid, Servo, get out of the Temple, they find a much-changed galaxy. Good guys are now bad guys, bad guys are now good guys, and his own brother is a Sith Lord ruling the galaxy. After spending annoyingly way too much time not understanding what's going on, Sig, supported by Jedi Bob and his crush, Yesi Scala (voiced by Marsai Martin, she's one of the few characters who didn't switch sides in the rebuilding of the galactic story), must find a way to navigate an unrecognizable new reality and locate another Jedi Temple so they can undo the changes that Sig inadvertently caused.

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Beach Luke in a scene from LEGO® STAR WARS: REBUILD THE GALAXY, exclusively on Disney+. ©2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.

If you've seen past LEGO Star Wars specials, nothing in Rebuild the Galaxy will really surprise you in terms of its tongue-in-cheek approach to both this story and the overall Star Wars mythology. Once again, this is just pure fun. Does it have some distracting inconsistencies, or tangents that go on for too long? Absolutely. It's also not innocent of being extremely self-absorbed during many points in its runtime, where characters go out of their way to wink at the audience and ultimately add little to the story. But thanks to its delightful tone and overall energy and urge to just have a good time, it's really hard to hold anything against it.

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More than entertain the audience with familiar characters pulling off unfamiliar actions or lines of dialogue, writers Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, along with director Chris Buckley, tried to convey some emotion through the story of two brothers separated by chance (or, you know, a magical LEGO brick holding the entire galactic reality together). Though this isn't necessarily a make-or-break part of the new special, it's certainly the subplot that intended to lift it from 'just fun' to 'actually poignant'.

Bounty Hunter C-3PO in a scene from LEGO® STAR WARS: REBUILD THE GALAXY, exclusively on Disney+. ©2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.

And in this game, they did as well as they possibly could have. All the right bricks fell in the right places, but ultimately, the tone they set in the rest of the animated miniseries was both its greatest ally to have a good time, but also its greatest enemy when they tried to make this an emotionally memorable watch. As I look back on it, do I think more about an unleashed Darth Jar Jar, or lament the fact that Darth Nubs barely had any screen time; or get teary-eyed about two characters who, in another life, would have been actual brothers? Well, probably what I think the most about is that, yet another year, LEGO Palpatine (so perfectly voiced by Trevor Devall) is by far the most entertaining character in Star Wars these days.

The bottom line is this. If you want some fun, laid-back Star Wars adventures to watch this weekend, LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is definitely for you. Pretty much everything you can ask for from these animated specials is in there, so just go enjoy it.

All four episodes of LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy are now available to stream on Disney Plus.

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