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This movie worked for me. Addressing some of the concerns:
I've never seen the new characters in anything else (someone mentioned Adam Driver in Girls, I have never seen it); so they were entirely new to me. I can appreciate what they are creating in the new Dark Helmet villain, although it isn't what I would have expected. However, really, since I never expected ANYTHING for so long, it's ok. I will say this (at the risk of spoiling anything, and it's not really a spoiler): the character in question is a much more convincing one, than what we got in the prequels. You get a lot more of the sense of conflict and transition, something we missed before.

Someone mentioned it being a B movie with some bad acting at times. I'd say the quality of the acting surpassed the originals at times, and overall it did a great job of belonging in the same world as those.

Someone else commented that it seemed like high-quality fan fiction; well, that's a danger in any franchise. This at least was the authorized, official version, with the actual characters portrayed by the same actors. We don't have something like Michael Fassbender playing Han Solo and Elijah Woods doing a wide-eyed Luke in a remake, we have some older, tired out guys out there, 30 years after they killed the Emperor.