Parents need to know that, once again, John Williams teams up with the London Symphony Orchestra to bring us a dramatic and moving soundtrack for the "last" Star Wars movie. If you're looking for a way to introduce your kids to orchestral music, this could be it.
This was the 3rd best movie out of the whole series. After I had seen the first 3, it was hard to tell which was the best. This was very interesting, but the events played way too smoothly. Something more had to happen, and if you saw the first 3, you could understand what happened halfway through the movie.
The brilliant John Williams has done it again. He wraps up his score for the STAR WARS saga (spanning 30 years!) with a score as dark as the movie. Yet it still packs the emotional puch that the others did, with new engrossing and original themes. It also incporporates some of the themes from the original trilogy, most notably The Imperial March, in some of the songs.
Now, some copies of this CD (including mine) come with a bonus DVD that plays clips from all 6 movies along with selected themes from all 6 CDs. The footage may be somewhat scary and intense, but not very violent.
Highly recommended. Anyone at all can listen to the music, and anyone over 7 or 8 can watch the movie.