Star Wars retold by someone who hasn't seen it

Bonnie sez, "Everyone has at least one friend who has seen parts of the Star Wars original trilogy but can’t quite tell you every plot point in order. Joe Nicolosi recorded his friend Amanda as she retells the story from the tiny amount she’s seen with hilarious results."

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) (Thanks, Bonnie!)

[#1 posted by TheBlessedBlogger , January 14, 2009 10:08 PM]

I seriously just peed a little. I think I may like her version better than the original.

[#2 posted by ridl , January 14, 2009 10:08 PM]

Laughed too hard. Abs now sore.

[#3 posted by chip , January 14, 2009 10:22 PM]

This is absolutely incredible. This certainly beats the "remastered" version. Extra points for liberal use of the Wilhelm Scream.

[#4 posted by dragonfrog , January 14, 2009 10:30 PM]

I'd go see that version in theatres.

[#5 posted by David Carroll , January 14, 2009 10:40 PM]

Why thank you Joe and Amanda! You just saved me $100. You guys should get a job at Coles notes.

Now could you explain Heroes to me?

[#6 posted by Kabur Naj , January 14, 2009 10:42 PM]

Awesome. The banter alone is cute, but with the animation: pure gold!

I'm impressed with just how many details she'd managed to absorb (and remember!) while still not catching enough of the films to get the underlying chronology.

"Olo. Hans Olo."

[#7 posted by axl456 , January 14, 2009 10:50 PM]

Awesome.. Better than the real thing..

[#8 posted by Toma , January 14, 2009 10:58 PM]

I can relate with her. For one of the performances my improv group did in high school, we had to perform the entire Star Wars series in 90 seconds or less, as requested by an audience member. I had never seen anything more than snippets of a Star Wars movie. Worse yet, neither had a few of my partners onstage. Most - no, all - of the laughter came at our expense.

[#9 posted by karenrani , January 14, 2009 11:05 PM]

That was so funny - tears streaming down my face especially after the Han Solo part...

[#10 posted by grimc , January 14, 2009 11:07 PM]

I love the illustrated ignorance (for lack of a better phrase) genre. The Drunk History vids are classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_DsL1x1uY

[#11 posted by Anonymous , January 14, 2009 11:08 PM]

Hasn't seen it? She described it pretty well. Probably as well as I would, and I've "seen" it.

If she hadn't seen any of it then she wouldn't been able to give ANY rundown of it, especially not 2+ minutes...

For example, I could not tell you a THING about "Lord of the Rings" except Elijah Wood and the guy from LOST are in it.

There's your retelling.

[#12 posted by MacD , January 14, 2009 11:45 PM]

:)

I like these kinds of 're-tellings'. Best I ever heard was a dutch comic, Hans Teeuwen, playing a sweetly dumb character retelling the whole bible in a couple of minutes. The part where "[...and then] they nailed this guy jesus' hands to his crotch* because he gave everyone a loaf of fish" had me gasping for breath, especially after the great lead up.

*(cross being 'kruis' in dutch, a synonym for groin).

/checks out the drunk history vids

[#13 posted by Takuan , January 15, 2009 12:07 AM]

not so long ago, perhaps even today, you could go to a remote Greek village and find someone able to recite the entire Iliad and Odyssey. In the original.

[#14 posted by EnglishNerd , January 15, 2009 12:09 AM]

I was crying I was laughing so hard. I have to share this with all my friends who treat Star Wars as religion. She's apparently been very exposed to the story. I'm so glad that they animated that and posted it for everyone to see!

[#15 posted by midknyte , January 15, 2009 12:09 AM]

more star wars humor that must be seen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eZBevXohCI

[#16 posted by midknyte , January 15, 2009 12:15 AM]

quality stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zYOw7v6TFE

[#17 posted by alisong76 , January 15, 2009 12:41 AM]

15 and 16, you BOTH beat me, but I still got one to post, ha!

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM&feature=related

[#18 posted by idoru45 , January 15, 2009 1:05 AM]

Absolutely brilliant. I doubt I could have done it better, and I've seen them all more times than Hans has had hot Twi'leks.

[#19 posted by codereduk , January 15, 2009 1:19 AM]

I wasn't expecting that to be as funny as it was, great job. And props for using the movie poster for The Stuff, am I the only one in the world who has seen that movie?

HERE is my pick for my favourite Star Wars humour, NSFW because of language.

[#20 posted by shiva7663 , January 15, 2009 2:54 AM]

I'd like to hear her retell the story of Lost.

[#21 posted by Evil Jim , January 15, 2009 3:06 AM]

The animations for this retelling killed me. Nice work that was.

Hey guys, thanks for all the additional Star Wars related videos. They kept me up later than I wanted but also kept me laughing :)

[#22 posted by Hanglyman , January 15, 2009 3:20 AM]

Codereduk- Nope.

We all have to eat shaving cream, once in a while.

[#23 posted by Anonymous , January 15, 2009 3:41 AM]

And for an encore... I hope she hasn't seen Harry Potter.

[#24 posted by robulus , January 15, 2009 3:46 AM]

Sorry, but this isn't funny at all. I find the idea that Chewie is a "deformed Ewok" deeply offensive to both Ewok and Wookie-kind alike.

[#25 posted by VICTOR JIMENEZ , January 15, 2009 3:48 AM]

Brown muppets... that killed me.
Pure gold!!

[#26 posted by jackie31337 , January 15, 2009 3:52 AM]

This video seriously needs to be accompanied by a warning about HOW hilarious it is. I made the mistake of thinking I could discreetly watch it at work. Do you have any idea how hard it is to laugh one's ass off silently?

[#27 posted by Jeff , January 15, 2009 5:55 AM]

Note to George Lucas: Hire this woman so as to improve the quality of writing on your next project. Very nice work.

[#28 posted by powellb , January 15, 2009 6:29 AM]

Frickkin hilarious!

[#29 posted by proscriptus , January 15, 2009 6:31 AM]

George Lucas could hire my cat and it would improve the quality of writing on his next project. Nothing he does will ever be as good as this. I might pay for a transcript.

[#30 posted by lumpi , January 15, 2009 6:38 AM]

Man, could you really explain those three moviews any better from the back of your head? I know I couldn't.

This reminds me, btw, of the hilarious caption of the Battlestar Galactica DVD cover over at PhotoshopDisasters: http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/01/battlestar-galactica-fracking-rack.html

[#31 posted by zuzu , January 15, 2009 6:54 AM]

Proving the timeless value of Joseph Campbell's monomyth.

...or something.

[#32 posted by franko , January 15, 2009 6:58 AM]

"crusty old white guy"... the reveal made me choke on my morning coffee. awesome. speaking as a first-gen, to-this-day star wars fan, this is pure GOLD.

[#33 posted by Ryan Waddell , January 15, 2009 7:14 AM]

OMG... That's awesome. The... counselor? Bahahahaha

[#34 posted by arkizzle , January 15, 2009 7:26 AM]

P E R F E C T ! !

And the animated puncuation adds so much.

[#35 posted by Lemon , January 15, 2009 7:27 AM]

The guy put it up on youtube as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb2GmBkkaTU just in case anyone want to save it with their favourites.

[#36 posted by Anonymous , January 15, 2009 7:28 AM]

Loved it!!

Thanks for that

[#37 posted by Bender , January 15, 2009 7:32 AM]

love it. wonderful.

[#38 posted by bassemb , January 15, 2009 7:38 AM]

I love this. I only watched the Star Wars films (except for ep. III) last year. Amanda is very cute. And she knows some peculiar details, like Lando's full name!

[#39 posted by yrogerg , January 15, 2009 7:44 AM]

::is confused about the copyfight tag on this:: is it because of the collaged animation??

[#40 posted by SeeChao , January 15, 2009 7:47 AM]

That was great... amazing how much people manage to pick up from pop culture even if they haven't experienced it themselves.
Also, Amanda is damn cute... Can I get her number?

[#41 posted by zuzu , January 15, 2009 8:00 AM]

I'd like to hear her retell the story of Lost.

Or Dune!

[#42 posted by David Pescovitz , January 15, 2009 8:02 AM]

APPLAUSE!!! This is fantastic.

[#43 posted by styrofoam , January 15, 2009 8:10 AM]

I loved the fact that she dwelled on the wookie/ewok connection for so long, especially since a concious decision was made to populate Endor with half wookies, if you will.
Half of Wookie = Ewok

She picked up on the not so subtle nature of this substitution, even without the linguistic clue. that's hilarious.

[#44 posted by mrsomuch , January 15, 2009 8:12 AM]

@19 - thanks for that, Izzard is brilliant

Amanda has it nailed and is very cute, She should do a segment retelling great movies. it would be superb.

[#45 posted by Jeff , January 15, 2009 8:13 AM]

ZuZu: boy meets worm. Boy rides worm. Boy becomes emperor of the Known Universe.

[#46 posted by auilix , January 15, 2009 8:21 AM]

My friend hasn't seen Star Wars AT ALL - and she informed me she "knew what happened" anyway from playing the old SNES video games, so I drew a comic about the results-
not a SW spoiler

[#47 posted by pentomino , January 15, 2009 9:49 AM]

It reminds me of those videos of a drunk guy telling stories about Benjamin Franklin's life. And they got Jack Black to act out the story and edited it in.

(can't link to it, at work)

[#48 posted by Boba Fett Diop , January 15, 2009 10:04 AM]

So...like, the Greeks are all camped out at Illium because, I think, Menelaus was mad at Paris for stealing his girlfriend, but then Achilles was mad at Menelaus because he was already dating this other girl, who was like the daughter of some priest or something. So Menelaus says to Achilles, you know, "what's your problem, you don't even like women," and Achilles gets even madder and says "well, if that's the way you're going to be, I'm going to go home."

So Achilles takes off, but then he gets lost on the way and meets Odysseus, and they both go to this island where, I think, they meet Merlin, who turns them into sheep or something...

[#49 posted by pewma , January 15, 2009 10:20 AM]

Hans?

Hilarious! and Leya in a gold suit...

[#50 posted by Rezpect , January 15, 2009 10:34 AM]

I'm betting that this woman "claims to have never seen" these films because she actually did watch them with a boyfriend but wasn't really paying attention, just a little.

[#51 posted by Bonnie , January 15, 2009 10:39 AM]

I love her version especially with the Hanz Solo bit. I'm calling him that from now on.

[#52 posted by ill lich , January 15, 2009 11:01 AM]

I have a friend who at this point WILL NOT go see any of the Star Wars films because he has remained "pure" for so long and wants to stay that way as some kind of weird badge of honor.

"The grave's a fine and private place. . . but none I think do there use the Force."

[#53 posted by Wally B , January 15, 2009 11:32 AM]

That was made entirely of win.

[#54 posted by BadKittyM , January 15, 2009 12:20 PM]

Just about the funniest thing I've seen on the intardnet for a very long time. This made my day.
"A planet populated with...Brown muppets."

[#55 posted by palindromic , January 15, 2009 12:55 PM]

that darth vader is feeling blue thing was hilarious hahaha

[#56 posted by Spoon Armada , January 15, 2009 1:08 PM]

The "crusty old white guy" bit makes me think that Hooper's rant in Chasing Amy is a major source of her information.

What's a Nubian?

[#57 posted by Takuan , January 15, 2009 1:17 PM]

Ian starting out.

[#58 posted by Anonymous , January 15, 2009 1:23 PM]

Good job guys! Ha! :-D
- Heather

[#59 posted by Anonymous , January 15, 2009 2:43 PM]

The simple "carbon-copy" - generic plot we see every damn movie out these days. Movies are now all about the sexiest stars (cast) and the best special effects.. and sometimes the music sound track.. They are all "video" DJ remixes of the old.

[#60 posted by Mitch Wagner , January 15, 2009 3:33 PM]

Hilarious! Who was the crusty old guy, though?

[#61 posted by arkizzle , January 15, 2009 3:41 PM]

Mitch: this one?

[#62 posted by obscurica , January 15, 2009 3:56 PM]

That's pretty funny. Fans of this really ought to check out "Stacy" as "Pink Five":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW11ly5Urts&feature=related

Also, I remember about 5-7 years ago, crying from laughter over a commentary parody in the style of MST3k called "A New Fangled Hope" but now I can't find it anywhere. Help?

[#63 posted by Mitch Wagner , January 15, 2009 4:56 PM]

Arkizzle (#16): Thanks! That's fantastic!

[#64 posted by Dan Freeman , January 15, 2009 5:21 PM]

AHA! Did no one (re) post "Coming to Alderaan"? I'm shocked!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utGXF5orynk

[#65 posted by ornith , January 15, 2009 9:00 PM]

It's like the Mr. Potato Head of Star Wars: all the right pieces, but arranged ALL WRONG.

[#66 posted by know_iknow_iknow , January 16, 2009 5:40 AM]

Loved it! Here's another funny one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVrIyEu6h_E

[#67 posted by Anonymous , January 16, 2009 11:27 AM]

I have tears running down my face from laughing so hard. Too funny.

[#68 posted by trr , January 16, 2009 12:12 PM]

I laughed, I cried. Best part for me was George Lucas under the Darth Vader helmet.

[#69 posted by billyrageguy , January 17, 2009 2:20 PM]

Ha the best part was when she said:

and there’s this new bad guy in town and he is Darth Vader

http://www.entertonement.com/clips/59222/There%27s-this-new-bad-guy-in-town

[#70 posted by Anonymous , January 18, 2009 1:20 PM]

She did pretty well for what she got out of all that. And she looks and sound so damm cute. I'd date a girl like that. Any girl who can have fun like that is a keeper.

[#71 posted by Anonymous , January 18, 2009 7:19 PM]

Oh my. So funny! Thanks for making this!