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Show ()lHmIMe byRIckBrough lsaaaSBBBB mmmmmmmmmi ,,i . , , , i...u. , viusssam carbonite slab and his rascally ras-cally romance with Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) ties up a few plot threads from "Empire." He even condescends condes-cends to say, "I love you" to which Leia replies, naturally, natural-ly, "I know."!) George Lucas, aided by co-scripter Laurence Kas-dan Kas-dan and director Richard Marquand hasn't lost his zest for bizarre outer-space creatures, wild locales, and breathless pace. To his menagerie, he's added Jab-ba Jab-ba the Hut, a villainous alien who looks like a slug imitating the Goodyear Blimp. The heroes also meet the Ewoks, a tough but cutesy tribe of teddy-bear creatures. Best of all, the movie brings in a new villain. The Galactic Emperor(splen-didly Emperor(splen-didly played by Ian McDiar-mid) McDiar-mid) dresses like a charnel house monk. And with his rancid smile, he's a more hissable villain than even Darth Vader. Despite flaws, the bright side of the Force is with George Lucas for " Jedi." ( " A Classic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists V "'y V2 National Lampoon's Vacation Clark Griswold Jr. (Chevy Chase) and his family are looking forward to the vacation of their lives when they travel cross-country from Chicago to the California Califor-nia amusement park Wally World. What they get is unrelieved disaster. Their car is victimized in St. Louis. They suffer through an op-, op-, pressive visit with redneck cousins (Randy Quaid, Miriam Flynn) in the Midwest. Mid-west. The family is plagued by seedy campgrounds, crooked mechanics, lost credit cards, dull tourist attractions, at-tractions, and finally, a wet-blanket wet-blanket surprise at Wally World. The original material, a short story in the "National Lampoon" was a tasteless classic, a nightmarishly warped Ozzie and Harriet tale. But the movie loses the special tone. The family takes on two unwanted passengers-Aunt Edith (Imogene Coca) and her annoying an-noying mutt-only to have them both die in embarass-ingly embarass-ingly ghastly circumstances. In the story, the deaths were the marks of an obnoxiously cruel fate. In the movie, they are played like clunky black comedy. Chevy Chase uses his familiar personality the guy blithely trying to ignore disaster rather than playing the increasingly crazed middle-class father. The supporting cast, led by Beverly D'Angelo as his wife, fail to capture the proper lunatic spirit. The two most notable performances perform-ances appear at Wally World. Eddie Bracken is the dithery park owner, Roy Wally. And John Candy is delightful as a babyish park guard who's more scared of the rides than his average five-year-old customer. This is also, incidentally, the first movie with its own centerfold Christie Brink- ' ley. She's inserted in the picture pic-ture strictly for display purposes, pur-poses, and the only thing missing is a staple through her middle. Ms Private School The teen characters in this movie should be spayed, so that movies like "Private School" cannot pass down any progeny to future generations. While the teen girls wander around half-nude half-nude and play practical jokes on each other, a trio of horny boys constantly tries to invade the grounds of their private academy. The serious lovers (played by Matthew Modine and Phoebe Cates) grope their way toward an honest relationship. relation-ship. Fat Bubba (Michael Zorek) is "falling" for the girls the running gag is that every visit he makes to the girls' dorm ends with him tumbling out a window. The obnoxious adults include in-clude Frank Aletter as a much-divorced father, Ray Walston as a chauffer who lucks into a sex episode, and Sylvie Kristel, cast against type, as a nervous sex teacher. The only decent performance comes from Martin Mull, as a pharmacist phar-macist who's much too talkative for the nervous kids discreetly trying to buy contraceptives. The grownup who suffers most is a harmless clucking old headmistress (Frar Ryan) who is humiliated by her students so relentlessly that all of your sympathy falls to her. With "Private School," the food-fight movie becomes truly loathsome. -kt Return of the Jedi Yes, the "Star Wars" trilogy is ended in fine form, as it hyperdrives along to a three-ring action-filled climax. cli-max. And yes, we get answers to all our questions about Luke, Darth Vader, and the mysterious Other person with the Force. Unfortunately, the personal per-sonal drama of the movie's heroes ends rather flatly. The conclusion is poignant, but it tastes more of simple sentiment than the mythic profundity hinted at in "Empire Strikes Back." You should watch for a character change that hasn't been forecast very well in the other two films. George Lucas is still concerned with the good-evil sides of the Force battling for Luke's soul. But his resolution is only fine, not superb. Besides, he is hard put to find an ending that will outdo three years of speculation by "Star Wars" fans. Mark Hamill (a consistent virtue throughout the trilogy) tri-logy) is convincing as a rapidly maturing Luke Sky-; Sky-; walker. Han Solo (Harrison i Ford) is unfrozen from his |