10 Unintentionally Funny Moments In Star Wars

Look, Anakin pole-vaulting over the line of moral redeemability by offing an entire preschool offscreen is not an inherently funny moment. But doesn’t it say a lot about the quality of the writing featured throughout the prequels that we’re forced to clarify that this instance of mass child murder isn’t actually unintentionally hilarious?

It’s hard to deny that the film struggles to give this moment the gravitas it warrants, but the scene itself is relatively subtle and foreboding. However, the follow up in which even Obi Wan actor Ewan McGregor seems to be struggling with taking the scene seriously? Less so.

You see, rather than just call them the junior Jedis or you know, a classroom of small children, the script calls for McGregor’s tortured to darkly intone “I’ve seen a security hologram.. of him… killing younglings.”

Seen a what now of him doing what now?

It’s a painfully cringey moment of bizarre writing which further affirms the long-standing theory that the prequels were written by a computer rather than human hands, and McGregor’s struggling-not-to-snigger delivery bumps it firmly into unintentional comedy territory.