Aug 17, 2008 10:00 AM

A Free, Awesome Star Wars Movie

If you don’t want to spend your money on Star Wars: Clone Wars, here’s a great alternative. A geek dad named Mark Lucier made a version of an Episode VII, starring his kids Alex and Noah. Mark’s brother Tom posted it online so we can all enjoy it. And it is really, really good, though you should raise the volume on your computer before watching it, because the kids’ lines are a bit on the soft side:

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