After reading some other reviews that said the movie was full of "SJW feminist Hollyweird nonsense" and you'll only like it if you think "socialism is great and women should rule the world", and another that said Lando was "a pansexual" and Disney shouldn't have such "filth" in a movie... I was expecting this movie to be more interesting than it was. But it's a pretty fun movie anyway and in fact I liked it more than I thought I would.[I have a lot to say about this, because frankly I'm fascinated by how massively wrong those reviewers were, to the extent that I have no idea if they were even watching the same movie as me - but let's dive into it]I found exactly ZERO of those things in the movie. I have no clue what movie they were watching. The only suggestion of Lando being anything other than heterosexual (his only romantic inclinations displayed in the movie are straight) is when his snarky droid says "are you two done flirting?" while he's talking to Han Solo about the Millennium Falcon, and the fact that he calls a lot of people "baby". Oh, and... he wears a lot of capes maybe? Is that pansexual? Do pansexuals wear a lot of capes? If not, they should. But none of those things are a sexual orientation. Does that reviewer think mockingly calling someone "gay" makes them actually gay? I don't know if there's backstory or something someone said in an interview for the film, but Lando is not DEPICTED IN THIS MOVIE as anything other than straight (telling the readers of Variety magazine doesn't count as "representation"). If you're horrified by all the sexual orientations in the world, don't worry, you won't find any here. Men kiss women a couple of times in the movie and that's it.As for it being a "feminist" movie, it doesn't even pass the Bechdel Test - the lowest possible bar. There are three female characters of any substance (one is a droid with a female sounding voice), only two of them have a conversation with each other, and the conversation is about Han and Lando. Oh I just remembered two other women also have a conversation with each other later on and it's also about Han. Most characters in the movie are male and most of the ones who have an effect on moving the plot forward are male, aside from one or two story points, most of the dialogue in the film is said by male characters. There's nothing "feminist" about that. It's the Han Solo movie, so this is not surprising, or bad per se, there's just nothing feminist about it. There's nothing explicitly anti-feminist about it either I guess? Is it "SJW nonsense" to be anything other than loudly anti-feminist?The main droid does have a female sounding voice and believes in a "cause" - she's a fully sentient droid who believes sentient droids should have equal rights to humans and not be kept as slaves... which is a FAIR POINT actually, one that Star Wars has never explored before, despite the fact that since the very beginning of the first movie droids the films have gone to great lengths to humanize droids. They have emotions, fears, they feel pain, etc. Sadly it's not explored in any depth and people mostly just roll their eyes at her when she talks about it, or yell at her when she actually tries to do anything about it.Apparently "enslaving sentient beings is bad actually" is something only SJWs and feminists believe?? Or is it that the mere PRESENCE of a female-coded character with a "cause" is enough to make this a "SJW movie", even though everybody else treats her cause like a joke, and it's basically not an actually issue the movie deals with?MINOR SPOILER: some droids to get free and cause a "distraction" that leads to a slave revolt of humanoid slaves in one facility on one planet at one point in the film. Freeing slaves, just like Hollyweird to include something like that, huh?The only other thing I could think of that might be "SJW nonsense" was that later in the movie people involved in the rebellion are shown to be there because of atrocities committed by the Empire, and that the Empire's subjugation of many planets has involved atrocities and genocides...? It's the deeper grittier mood about the Empire and rebellion that a lot of the newer films and shows have been covering (but it's very much off to the side since this movie is about crooks).Is that something? Is "the EVIL GALACTIC EMPIRE FROM STAR WARS is bad actually" a feminist issue? The Empire IS EVIL. It's called the "EVIL GALACTIC EMPIRE" in the opening narration text crawl in Star Wars (the original 1977 film - I'm an old enough fan to not call it "A New Hope"). Is the problem that wars are shown to have victims, who are humanized? Luke Skywalker is a victim of the Empire's war, he had to look at the burned bodies of his family and flee his home, Princess Leia is one of the only survivors of the total genocide of her people, how could this be a surprise? The Empire is evil and the things it does are evil. The only reason I suggest this might be a bone of contention for someone who hates "SJW nonsense" is that there are a lot of people who hate SJWs, who are literal self-avowed neo-Nazis who don't like negative depictions of fascism and its atrocities. The Empire have always ALWAYS been depicted as the "space Nazis", so maybe people who love Nazis hate to see the Empire get a bad rap? I don't know, I'm grasping at straws here!Other than those things I genuinely have NO IDEA why someone would think this is a "feminist SJW" movie??? Some female characters shoot a gun once in a while and kick a little butt in approximately TWO scenes? They're not any more action-oriented or heroic than the male characters in the movie, and are mostly less. Honestly, I'm at a loss here.At no point in the movie do women rule any world, nor is there any praise for that idea. There is an alien centipede monster with a female sounding voice who is a mafia boss but she's only encountered at the beginning of the movie and IS A VILLAIN, there is one other woman in charge of a small group later in the movie and she's kind of good, but the main authority figures of the film are all men. Neither is any form of socialism depicted at all, much less praised in any way. The only "economics" shown in the film are mafias, bribes, heists, and gambling (black market economics exist in socialism and in capitalism and in every other economic system). Really, no economic system is praised or criticized. It's not part of this movie.So, "if you think women should rule the world and think socialism is great"... I'm not sure what you'll find in this movie that support those opinions at all... really at all. If you hate women and socialism, I have no idea what there is not to like about this movie, except for the presence of about three women.This is a BOYS MOVIE - and that's fine, it's the Han Solo movie. It's about Han and Chewie and Lando and Woody Harrelson going on space heists for space mafia bosses and occasionally having one of their girlfriends along as an accessory (with a gun). There's a lot of fan service for long time fans, from big canon stuff like what Han "pulled" that made Lando mad at him, or how Chewbacca is 200 years old and Han freed him from slavery (not a spoiler, this is decades-old backstory stuff), to including Teräs Käsi martial arts - from the ridiculous Star Wars martial arts fighting game "Masters of Teräs Käsi" for Playstation 1 (1997 - though first mentioned Shadows of the Empire the year before), to offhand references, like they mention Bossk the bounty hunter at one point, there's a lot of that kind of stuff.It does violate canon, or seems to (without explanation) at a few points - like, I won't spoil it but a character shows up right in the last few minutes of the movie, who should no longer be alive at that point in the Star Wars history timeline, and it's not explained or even hinted at why they're alive because it's just a short scene. Maybe there will be a sequel? Otherwise, I don't know. Also there's an oblique reference to Jabba the Hutt that makes it sound like he's kind of an up-and-coming crime boss, but Episode 1 which takes place decades earlier showed him pretty well established with a palace and everything. Though by that logic, the Jabba deleted scene in Episode IV that they put back in for the 1997 special edition, where Han argues with Jabba in Mos Eisley, also doesn't make much sense... maybe the Death Star 1 era was a bad time for Jabba, when he was no longer a "king of the desert" crime boss and had to slither around space ports shaking people down, but he got his crime kingdom back in later years -- or maybe they should have left that deleted scene on the cutting room floor after they clearly established in the other films that Jabba is a HUGE DEAL... but that's just me being an old school pre-special-edition purist. Mostly they should have left that scene out because it's bad and the acting is bad, it doesn't cover any story material Greedo didn't already cover, it makes Jabba look weak and silly, and digitally-added Boba Fett stopping to look directly at the camera at the end like "HEY STAR WARS FANS! YOU LIKE BOBA FETT! LOOK IT'S BOBA FETT THAT GUY YOU LIKE!!" is absolutely absurd.The fan service in this film is not heavy-handed.In conclusion, overall as someone who generally appreciates some good SJW nonsense, I sadly didn't find any to enjoy in this film, but as someone who has been a fan of Star Wars since my earliest memories (I was six months old when the original film came out though, so I didn't catch that one in the theater), I thought it was fun and hit the Star Wars beats sufficiently. Not the best Star Wars film, not a classic, but a fun "A Star Wars Story" expansion film. I'd watch a sequel.If you made it all the way to the end of this review, thanks for reading!I very much enjoyed this movie, though I'll admit I'm the only one in the family who gives it five stars – most hover around 4. But how can I not like a Ron Howard movie, not to mention: 1) an action movie, 2) how Solo got his last name, 3) why Solo wasn't sure Lando would greet him with friendliness, 4) how Solo and Chewie met, 5) what is a Kessel Run, 6) Lando's capes! Not to mention scenes that harken back to the original film trio, such as: "This is a thermal detonator."In Bonus Feature E, Ron Howard says, "One of the things that really interested me about this story is that it's about a person choosing an outlaw's life. And it's really important for this young guy to quickly understand that this life of thievery is not romantic."If you buy it on disc, you have many options for languages and subtitles:Languages – English, English Descriptive Audio, FrenchSubtitles – English, French, Dutch, Danish, Suomi, Norwegian, SyenskaI LOVE Bonus Features, especially if they give me insights into the director's plan for the movie and "making of" scenes. With BluRay, you get a whole 2nd disc of Bonus Features, which have even more subtitle options – English, CESKE, Nederlands, French, German, Magyar, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and two more (I cannot, unfortunately, read the characters).BONUS FEATURES:....A... "Solo: The Director & Art Roundtable" (22 minutes) After filming, Ron Howard (director) asks 8 actors to join him at a roundtable (actually an octagon) to discuss the movie. Commentators include Alden Ehrenreich (plays Han), Donald Glover (plays Lando Calrissian), Joonas Suotamo (plays Chewbacca), Emilia Clarke (plays Qi'ra), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (plays L3-37), Thandie Newton (plays Val), Woody Harrelson (plays Tobias Beckett) and Paul Bettany (plays Dryden Vos). Everybody was over the moon, including Howard, when George Lucas visited the set, and challenged Ron to a game of dejarik = holo-chess.Howard asks, Who inspired you for your role? Thandie replies, "There was a woman who grew up in Zimbabwe in the Colonial Era, and, who, in the 70s ... was part of the independent struggle in Zimbabwe. She left because members of her friendship group had been assassinated because of the struggles. She found herself in England when she was in a really difficult, sometimes racist environment. She struggled through that, she raised a family. And that was my mom."....B... "Kasdan on Kasdan" (8 minutes) New commentators include Lawrence Kasdan (producer/cowriter), Kathleen Kennedy (president Lucas Film), Jonathan Kasdan (cowriter). Larry Kasdan wrote three Star Wars franchise movies, and, as Kennedy says, "knows Han Solo better than anybody." He returned to work with his son, Jon, to write this movie.....C... "Remaking the Millennium Falcon" (5 minutes) New commentators include Lee Sandales (set decorator), James Clyne (design supervisor), John Swartz (producer), Liam Georgensen (asst. art director), Neil Lamont (production designer) and Alistair Bullock (art director). As Donald Glover notes, "The Falcon in this movie is brand new."....D... "Escape From Corella" (10 minutes) New commentators include Simon Emanuel (producer), Rob Bredow (special effects supervisor, producer), Gary Tomkins (art director), Ben Collins (stunt performer) and Matthew Samway (ILM). The Corella world was created new, because it is only mentioned in dialogue in Episode V. As much as possible of the car chase on Corella was done for real rather than special effects. Really enjoyed how they made and ran the stolen speeder. Tomkins says they used stuff like baguette warmers from a local supermarket and a refueling nose cone of a military jet......E... "The Train Heist" (14 minutes) New commentators include Paul Marsh (senior model maker), Nick Fulton (Italy production manager), Bradford Young (director photography) and Charles Jellis (action vehicles chargehand). The background snow scenes were filmed in the Italian mountains. Fulton, "We managed to get 250 people up here, and a Wookie. Getting that amount of people on top of a mountain brings its own challenges. So we built roads as far as we an, and then operating the four helicopters bringing people in and out."....F... "Team Chewie" (7 minutes) New commentators include Tim Nielsen (sound editor and designer) and Maria Cork (supervising animatronic designer). Per Nielsen, Chewie "is introduced as a man-eating beast with this massive roar.... The main recording of Chewbacca is a bear that Ben Burtt, the original sound designer, recorded many many years ago."....G... "Becoming a Droid: L3-37" (5 minutes) New commentators include T J Falls (visual effects producer) and Karin Cooper (digital artist supervisor). It is marvelous how they filmed Waller-Bridge and illustrates why the robot's movements are so human-like.....H... "Scoundrels, Droids, Creatures and Cards: Welcome to Fort Ypso" (8 minutes) New commentator Neil Scanlon (creature effects). The Lodge is the "tough seedy bar" where Han meets Lando, and joins the card game of Sabaac.....I... "Into the Maelstrom: The Kessel Run" (7 minutes) Jonathan Kasdan quotes Han in the first Star Wars movie, "This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs." He continues, "That is a nonsensical statement. A parsec is a unit of distance, not a unit of speed. So, what did he mean when he said that?" The movie explains.Tim Nielsen on his work on the Kessel Run: "Coaxium canisters are about to explode, so that was really fun trying to figure out what's the sound of these decaying metal canisters. I saw this video on youtube years ago of somebody dropping a Gummi Bear into potassium chlorate. It causes the Gummi Bear to spontaneously combust." Voila!....J... "Delted Scenes" (6 minutes) Eight deleted scenes, including how Han got into the Imperial Infantry in the first place.I have such a good time watching this prequel!Happy ReaderÜber Han Solo erfährt man recht wenig, dafür viel "Äktschen" und unglaublich stereotype Handlung. Mit einer Einrichtung des Falken, wie sie nur Steve Wonder hinbekommen konnte.- Echt ein Einbauschrank mit Schuhen und Klamotten? Das braucht man im Weltraum.- Die Scene mit dem Han den Falken im Glücksspiel gewonnen hat, war dermaßen dämlich, da fehlen einem die Worte.- Eine Quoten-Roboterin die auf Revoluzzerin macht. Das war nur peinlich.usw usf...grauenhafter Disney EintopfThis the second Star-Wars spin-off adventure............which see's the young lovable, quick-witted and resourceful pirate Han Solo (The role made famous by screen-legend Harrison Ford) played by Alden Ehrenreich who's sole ambition is to be a pilot and tour the galaxy's meet his future co-pilot Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) in a pit where Han had been placed to be killed by the Wookiee, however it helps if you know a little Wookiee.........they will become close allies.To pay back a heavy dept and indeed stay alive Han will team up with ruthless villain Tobias Beckett: (Woody Harrelson) and his team along with new-found friend Lando Calrissian: (Donald Glover) who has a ship to set off on a dangerous heist to steal highly valued coaxium for Dryden Vos (Paul Bettany) a ruthless crime-lord.A bonus for Han is that in Dryden's employ is his old partner-in-crime and indeed lover Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke) who he'd been separated from some years before (Han had promised he'd find her again)There are those who underestimate Han Solo, however he has paid attention to what had been said.This is without doubt a fast-moving, action-packed thrill-ride which boasts a superb array of special-effects to cherish..................Like Rogue One before it, this is a Star-Wars treat...A Must See.I admit it, I had very low expectations for this film. It seemed like an unnecessary addition to the Star Wars canon, filling in a backstory that didn't need to exist outside the minds of fans. But actually, I loved it. I was originally going to give it four stars, but I've decided what the heck, it should get five stars just for pulling off in a sharp and entertaining way what could easily have been a disaster. Also, because it'll annoy all those who seem to think Disney have wrecked Star Wars, rather than revitalised a franchise that was not looking too good after the prequels.Solo is a heist movie, pure and simple and the perfect backdrop for the character. Thieves, gangsters, smugglers, and a Solo that is fresh-faced and at the start of his career, not the grizzled rogue we meet in the original films. This is a cocky, perhaps naive, pilot looking for his escape route and a big break. Sure it's going to upset some of the fans, but deep down we all know that Han didn't magically appear the way we've always known him - and when we leave the story, we get a better appreciation for how he ended up years later.This could even be a great standalone film for non Star Wars fans looking for an entertaining heist movie with a science fiction twist. Who knows, it might even gain some new fans for the franchise.Ich bewerte hier nicht den Film an sich, sondern die 3D Qualität!In meinem Besitz habe ich einige 3D Filme aber so eine miserable Qualität habe ich bisher noch nicht erlebt. Keinerlei Tiefe bzw. Gefühl einen 3D Effekt zu erleben. Schade fürs Geld für den 3D-Film - definitiv keine Kaufempfehlung. ICH WILL MEIN GELD ZURÜCK!!!!!!Solo ist noch eine "A Star Wars Story". Aber m.E. die wichtigste, die gedreht worden ist. Man erfährt wie Han Solo zu seinem ständigen Begleiter und zum "Millenium Falcon" gekommen ist. Damit passt der Film sehr gute in die gesamte Geschichte von Star Wars. Wieder aufwendig produziert, ist es ein Vergnügen, sich dem Film zuhause auf dem Fernseher anzusehen. Und je größer der Bildschirm, um so besser das Vergnügen. Ein sehr gut gemachter Film.