Okay, I had ZERO desire to see this movie and I am as big a Star Wars fan as they come, but my son asked to see this movie and I finally took him today.
After hearing all the negative reviews, I was really expecting a bomb of epic proportions.
Gotta say it - this was actually quite entertaining. I was really sick of stories told in the Clone Wars era, but this actually got me going quite a few times and I have to give it a good review. It is Star Wars in another format, a new medium, and a different style. My son loved it, and there were kids in the audience that absolutely were going ga ga over it. So much so that after the movie, there were a good half dozen boys play lightsaber fighting in the lobby. It was pretty cool.
So for a Sunday afternoon matinee with my boy, it was a good time. The only thing that bugged me a bit about Ziro was not his flamboyance, but his speaking Basic. But I guess since he is not in the Outer Rim but in the capital of the Republic, it makes sense that he speaks it. He's only got about 5 minutes of screentime, so it's not like he derails the flick.
Lots of action, decent humor, and lots of nods and foreshadowing to classic trilogy designs. So I was happy.