See the New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer

It’s here. The biggest trailer yet for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. A preview for the film that broke the internet earlier today when everyone and their parents tried to pre-order tickets online. A sneak peak at the movie that ignorant racists are trying to boycott on Twitter just because there’s a woman and a black guy in it (they know that’s hardly a first for the franchise, right?). You watched half of Monday Night Football just to see it, and they dumped it online anyway.

That’s right, it’s new footage from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and we won’t keep you from it a moment longer. Take a gander and we’ll catch up as soon as you’re done!

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Wow! Okay, that was a lot to take in at once. If you’re anything like most of the internet you’re probably going to watch this trailer about a dozen times in the next half hour anyway, so that’s hardly a big deal. We’ve got the return of Han Solo, Chewbacca and Leia… but no Luke Skywalker. Unless he’s the guy with the cyborg hand stroking his R2 unit, of course. Maybe there’s something unexpected about his appearance in the film? Maybe, like Darth Vader, he’s now more mechanical than man?

Or maybe we’re just reading too much into this. After all, Han Solo’s dialogue seems to indicate that although these characters live in a futuristic society where everyone communicates via holograms, nobody actually takes a historical record of anything that happens, so that after only 30 years the events of the original movies have passed into some sort of legend. So maybe holding this trailer up to close scrutiny won’t be rewarded.

We kid of course. This trailer has everything we want from a trailer: a whole lot of fun stuff but the distinct sense that none of the movie has been ruined. There’s action and intrigue and images we didn’t expect, and it ends on an oddly hopeful note that seems hellbent on inspiring the audience not just to see the film, but to believe in the wonder it can provide us.

It may not be the most incredible thing we have ever seen, but this new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a rock solid piece of marketing. We have to give it that.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens on December 18, 2015. Good luck getting tickets.

Photo: Disney

William Bibbiani (everyone calls him ‘Bibbs’) is Crave’s film content editor and critic. You can hear him every week on The B-Movies Podcast and watch him on the weekly YouTube series Most Craved and What the Flick. Follow his rantings on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.

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