While Leia manages to escape with Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) has traveled to Dagobah in order to seek the help of Jedi Master Yoda in the funny-talking puppet’s first franchise appearance. Set just a few years after the original Star Wars, the movie sees Darth Vader desperately trying to locate the Rebel Alliance, which-under the captainship of Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher)-has set up camp on the remote ice planet of Hoth, which eventually comes under attack by the Imperial forces. But, with all due respect to George Lucas and A New Hope, Irvin Kershner’s The Empire Strikes Back is one of those singular cinematic follow-ups that manages to outshine the original film from which it was born. It's rare that a sequel lives up to its predecessor, and even rarer when it surpasses it.
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