Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Dramatized)

I was admittedly disappointed with the way the Rancor scene was handled. It seemed rushed to me. At the same time I appreciated that they got someone who could easily be mistaken for Mark Hamill, as the voice actor they got to replace him sounds almost like him. Ann Sachs and Perry King kept the chemistry going between their characters. As for 3PO his narrative comments on the scenes in the story are excellent. The major problem I had was with John Lithgow. What was the matter with him when they recorded this? When he played Yoda in "Empire" he did a passable job. This time around, it was just plain awful. Sorry John, I like you as an actor, but this time around, the parts you played should have been left on the cutting floor!! So I give this a 3.5 stars.

Before reading the previous review , I did not know that mark Hamill was not in this audiobook, I love all the Star Wars (Dramatizied) audiobooks so much, it is like watching the movie inside your head . It is the greatest listening experience I have had. I am speaking of the series, not just Return of the Jedi, which I loved, though minus Billy Dee, whose voice is very distinctive I felt a little cheated but it was still great because all the other characters are so well casted to the original voices. I loved Ann Sachs, her voice is captivating as Leia and Perry King as Han Solo is very good and they have good chemistry in this book. This is the best audiobook ever as far as I am concerned. I don't know why it is not number one every week.

It took ten years for NPR to comlpete the Star Wars trilogy and even though it's missing Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams, nearly half the program time and depth of story of the first installment, it's still a modern radio classic, and now it's available on Audible.

Possibly... I liked that it shows some things from the book that were not in the movie, but there were times when some of the characterizations (particularly Vader) that it seemed a bit awkward. I did like the book, but for the story and not based upon it being an audio drama of the movie.

In this dramatization of the final story in the original Star Wars trilogy, I was disappointed that Anthony Daniels was the only original actor to portray his part (C-3PO). Lando Calrissian didn't sound at all like Billy Dee Williams, and I kept getting distracted by wondering who was talking, and then realizing it was supposed to be Lando. The other actors did a fine job, and if you love the Star Wars universe, you will enjoy this. I still wish James Earl Jones would have done Darth Vader, though! The extra details available in a radio drama make this a pleasure to listen to.

Total rip-off. Mostly sound track so if you don't already know action sequence, you have no idea what is going on.