Directed by:
Richard Marquand

Starring:
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker
Harrison Ford as Han Solo
Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia
Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian
Anthony Daniels as C-3PO
David Prowse as Darth Vader
Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca
Kenny Baker as R2-D2
Frank Oz as Performing Yoda
Alec Guinness as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi

• When Chewbacca repairs C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) you can see the nose of the actor inside of C-3PO.

• Watch carefully before the Millennium Falcon goes into the big Asteroid Hole, Before she made the loop there is no hole in the asteroid, if you follow the path that the Falcon is following using the background hills you can expect a crash at the end of the loop, but a big hole appears like magic in the right place!! - Mauricio Garcia

• This is a fairly old and well known goof but with all the publicity re-emerging around the phantom menace it might be of interest to other browsers to know that in Yoda's home scenes the puppet manipulator was so scared of snakes that many takes had to be done several times. In fact on the video cassette (probably more evidently on dvd) you'll see a weird cut in the movie and Yoda starting to yell just before it cuts. Some say that Lucas intentionally left the scene like this in tribute to the poor actor's fright of snakes... Happy viewing stéphane. - m.bédard

• Han Solo continually changes clothes between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. - Zane Russel

• When Han Solo gets frozen in the carbonite in Empire Strikes Back he is wearing a just white shirt, but when he wakes up unfrozen in Return of the Jedi, he is wearing a different larger shirt. - Zane

• If you're wondering about the shirt, then what about the "ropes" right above the elbows in TESB. They're not there when Han is defrosted... - Iceman

• I don't know if this is just in the special edition, but right after Luke cuts the Wampa's arm off (but before he leaves the cave), you hear his lightsaber retracting. But when they show him, there is his lightsaber out and ready for battle. - sahasrala

• If you watch the widescreen addition you will notice during the Lightsaber duel in the carbonite chamber. Luke kicks Vader and he falls over the ledge. Luke then follows Vader by jumping down. Right before the scene cuts you will see Mark Hammil's head pop back up from the trampoline he just jumped on. - Empire

• SE: In The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition, you see out of the windows with the Elevator etc. However, after the dining room seen with Darth Vader the back windows are back to there original style (stained glass). - Wadeski

• In ep. 6 the last battle between Luke and Darth Vader. The Emperor Was telling Luke to give in to his hatred and struck him down, and he did but Vader blocked his blow. Well if you look at the lightsabers, Vader's is on the outside meaning he's pushing Luke's lightsaber toward the emperor! Wooops!!! - Cerasi

• In ep. 5 Our heroes are making a desperate escape to the daking platform where the M. F. is.  R2-D2 opens the door and rolls out on to the platform, than is suddenly inside shooting out smoke to hid the escape and than rolls out on to the platform again. - Cerasi

• In ep. 5 Our heroes are in a cave (or at least they think that) looking for minox or whatever they are. If you watch when you can see everyone, the M F is missing the dish. Same as in docking bay 94 in A New Hope (ep. 1) - Cerasi

• On Baspin, Chewie walks in the junk room and finds C-3PO in pieces. If you look hard enough you can see the reflection of the camera crew in C-3PO's head when it's on the convyor belt. - Cerasi

• When Han Solo is about to be frozen in the carbonite he alternates from wearing a just white shirt to wearing a white shirt and a vest. Vest when Leia says "I love you" no vest when Han says "I know" and so on. - Robert

• In the astriod fight between Han Solo and the Tie Fighters you can see when one of the Tie's is hit by an astriod you can see a body flying out of the tie. Boy that gonna leave a mark! (Widescreen) - Chubb's

• This is not really a goof, it's more of a hey thats pretty cool thing. But when Han is being brought to his "cell" back to Leia by two stromtroopers in Cloud City, when they drop him to the ground his arm almost knocks off the one stromtroopers helmet. When he leave it's on like about half way. - Chubb's

• During the escape from Cloud City, Lando makes it to the Millenium Falcon and turns to fire a captured blaster at Imperial stormtroopers. Notice that his "energy weapon" occasionally ejects spent brass casings--- these are the blank cartridges used in some of the prop blasters, which were real military submachineguns modified for the movie. (Theatre) - xentrick

• The group led by Han Solo have arrived on the Endor moon and have been caught in a large net. The Ewoks arrive on the scene to capture the group. The Ewoks sight the golden C-3P0 and believe him to be a God. In the excitement the Ewoks bow before C-3P0. Just as we see the lead Ewok bow down, when he rises again, we can see his large Black eye has dropped out, and can see the actor's eye behind the Ewok mask. (VHS) - Tim

• In the scene near the end of the movie with Vader talking to Capt. Piett about deactivating the hyperdrive, Capt. Piett's badge is on one side of his chest. In the next scene it is on the other side! - mcquam

• While Luke is in agony and Vader breaks the news to him, his "cleaved" hand is clearly tucked under his other arm. When he jumps down the whole and finally lands,he rolls several times before stopping. During this roll frenzy, you clearly see Luke's right hand swing around to catch himself, and then quickly tuck it away. - youghduh

Debated Goofs

• Wouldn't Luke die or bleed profusely after getting his hand cut off? - Road Dogg
  • Well, maybe the lightsaber's power/heat/force/whatever stopped the bleeding when it went through Luke's hand. Getting hit with a lightsaber is not like getting hit with a sword.
  • Comment: When Luke's hand is cut off by the lightsaber he wouldn't bled to death because the heat(?) from the saber fuses the wound closed. This can be seen in episode 1 when Qui-Gon gets killed. There is no blood around the wound. - kholos
  • Comment: First in Episode I it shows the lightsaber melt through two big security doors so of course it would heal the wound on Luke's hand as it passes through. - Tim
  • Explanation: In the second Jedi Apprentice book Qui-Gon is going to remove something off Obi-Wan's neck if memory serves correctly. Qui-Gon sets his lightsaber to low power to try to cut it off but it does not work. It appears that there are multiple power settings for the light sabers. This would explain why some lightsaber wounds have blood and some don't. - BMonger
    • Correction: Jedi sometimes have blade intensity and/or length controls on their lightsabers, but, a lightsaber does Not emit any heat. - gl_bustr
      • Correction: Excuse me? Lightsabers do not emit heat? So how does Qui-Gon Jinn melt the blast door onboard Trade Federation ship in Episode one? Actually, all wounds are closed, not healed, when being applied to intense, short-timed heat. This is applicable as in surgical lasers. - Mind of Jedi

• In The Empire Strikes back, when Luke is first in Yoda's home, Yoda speaks to Ben about Luke not being ready to train. Ben then comments that he was the same way when Yoda trained him, however in Phantom Menace, they show Ben being trained by Liam Nieson's character and not Yoda. - jgirl
  • Correction: Jgirl says that in "The Phantom Menace" they show Obi-Wan being trained by Qui-Gon which is a direct contradiction to what Ben says in "Empire". However, you do not know whether Yoda trained Obi-Wan at a young age or not, and anyway Jedis can be trained by more than one person. That is one of the purposes of the Jedi council. There will always be one master and one learner, but other Jedis can intervene in a future Jedis training. - David
  • Comment: Everyone on the Jedi council trains the Jedi's, Obi-Wan is just Qui's apprentice if you will. Obi calls all of the Council Master this and Master that so they all have a part in training him. - Tim
  • Comment: There is a back story that states that Yoda trained a very young Obi-Wan. Part of the Jedi Code was that these jedi candidates must be taken on by a senior jedi as an apprentice by the age of thirteen, or they are washed out of the program. Qui-Gon took Obi-Wan as his padawan only months before this deadline was reached. - Natrone Fett

Commented Goofs

• A Goof, or not a goof? Since the "Millennium Falcons" hyperdrive is out of order, and it can't go through hyperspace, how can it travel from the Hoth-system to Bespin in a few days, or maybe even in a few hours? Do Hoth and Bespin orbit around the same sun? - Olav Westerman
  • Comment: I think the speed of the falcon was because it was elapsed time, and it took several weeks to get from Hoth to Bespin. You don't think Yoda trained Luke in just a few hours do you? - Bob
    • Comment: Even if the trip took several weeks, you can't travel between two star-systems in less then several years, unless you go faster than light. Providing that the stars are not very close to each other. As you might know, the distance between the Sun and the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, is about four lightyears. - Olav Westerman
  • Comment: Maybe the Mill. Falcon's "impulse" engines are extremely fast too. And they were on the back of a star destroyer some of the time. This is Star Wars after all! - Bob

• Why didn't Vader's arm get hacked off?? Luke nailed him on the shoulder area. I'm thinking maybe it's because he's not all human then? Ben: he's more machine now... um... - Lando
  • Sound-clip: "He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil."
  • Comment: The lightsaber can cut through Darth Vader's machine parts.. it cut through the walk-way "handrails" or whatever they are, so why not Darth's shoulder? It just kinda fizzles into nothing. Wow! Good shot Luke... ya nailed him, and it didn't do anything! Good show old chum! - Lando
  • Maybe Vader stopped the hit with his dark powers, or maybe Vader's "machine parts" are made out of surprisingly-hard-to-cut-through-iron-steal-thingies. In sci-fi movies the list of explanations to weird things are unlimited.

• Comment: It's quite possible, for whatever reason, Luke decides to hold back from slicing into Vader (maybe because of what he saw in the cave on Dagobah), and stops himself just as he hits. - Ked

• In Empire Strikes Back Yoda, old and worn down, dies around 900 years. In Phantom Menace at the age of 870? 860? he is so young and healthy. He really hit a wall in those last few years. From Brad Pitt to Ronald Reagan in a fraction of his life. Also, in the "behind the scenes " where are the shots of Grover from Sesame Street doing voice overs for Yoda?
  • Comment: Yes ....Yodas age reference...900 yrs he lived to be! Well a year on Earth is 365.25 days....maybe in the Dagobah System...a year on Yoda's planet was 55,....65 days long?.....? - Guitarzan

• When Han is being lowered in the Carbonite chamber to be frozen, he's clearly seen handcuffed. But after he's frozen and they take him out of the machine, you can clearly see his hands are in front of him! Did the freezing process somehow melt off the cuffs or something? - dragon9276
  • Correction: If we all paid attention, we can "clearly" see the little pig-faced guys uncuff Han before he's lowered into the carbonite freezing chamber. - Sam
    • Comment: His hands are uncuffed; however, you can clearly see binders restraining his arms. These binders are attached at Han's biceps area on each arm and are connected via cable behind Han. When Han is relased in Return of the Jedi, these arm binders are no longer there... - mpsii

• I agree that having lims/appendages severed via light saber should cauterize the wound, (what w/ its intense heat and all) But why is it when Obi-Wan cuts off Panda baba's arm in the cantina there is blood on the floor next to his severed arm? Further more in Episode 1 when Obi-Wan slices Maul in half, clearly you see blood spray out. I'm not even gonna mention the fact that was not a spot of blood on Obi-Wan's tunic. Thank you and God bless. - Dano
  • Comment: Hey Dano I know every one says that the light saber would would seal up the wound when being hit by it, but that's not to say that there won't be a little blood before the wound has time to seal up completely. - Jedi_Master
  • Comment: In SW:A New Hope (or simply the original Star Wars, to us old timers), Ben Kenobi's fracus in the cantina leaves an orange clad bloody forearm laying on the floor. The pig faced fellow pulling the weapon on Luke is dressed in gray or white (my age prevents me from remembering). The walrus pugged guy next to him IS wearing orange and somehow got involved in the fracus. Since the scene is edited in a choppy manner it's difficult to tell precisely what happens. Now, we have visual evidence from the other SW movies that Light Sabers cauterize as they cut. If you'll look at pipes and scenery where Sabers have slashed (in ESB esp.) you'll see burn marks. EP 1 shows Jedi "melting" a bulkhead. ESB shows Luke's hand cauterized. EP 2 shows Anakin's wounds cauterized as well as Obi Won's. EP 1 has a light puff of red just above Darth Maul's wound as Obi Won slices through him -- This is (to my recollection) the only other time any hint of blood is witnessed in conjunction with a Saber wound. In the end Light Sabers are mystical weapons, utilized by mystical Jedi Knights who have a mastery of a mystical ancient Force (or magic). I'm sure that every once in a while, a Saber leaves a little blood should the weilder of the weapon choose to do so (especially when Obi Won uses them... is there something to that maybe?). Either that, or the whole thing was just a continuity screw-up by some guys who said "Hey lets throw some fake blood on this here fake arm when we shoot that cantina scene..." And thus a continuity-flub thread was born. As for the thread about Luke's Saber not cutting off Vader's arm during their battle in ESB, it was a glancing blow. It sparked off of Vader's armor. It wasn't a true cut. Thanx. - rayxgraham

• In the scene where Han, Chewie, and Leia are walking around in the asteroid cave, one thing we fail to realize is that it is still in the vacuum of space. Yes they are wearing air masks of some sort, but they have no oxygen tanks to hook up to. Furthermore, when they run back into the Falcon, they take the masks off before they even close the door to repressurize the cabin. - manix
  • Comment: Who says they are still in a vacuum? The giant worm, being a living organism, should still have some kind of gas inside it's body. As for the Falcon, maybe it has a special kind of airlock to keep bad air out. - Bob

Corrected Goofs

• Why is everyone in these movies British, have a British accent, or pretend to have a British accent? Even in Episode 1, Anakin's mom has a British accent. And in a new hope, is it just me or does the grand admiral there look like the guy who commentates golf for cbs? - Lando
  • Correction: Anakin's mother has a Swedish accent, because Pernella August (who played Shmi Skywalker) is from Sweden. - Ked

Explained Goofs

• I am not sure if this was even an intended part. I highly doubt it but there is a chance that it was used for effect. In "The Empire strikes back" Luke says something like, "Somethings, not right" and then he says, "I feel cold". The camera turns to Yoda and a whispering voice says "death" or something like that. It wasn't Yoda, cause his lips weren't moving, and why would he say death anyways, to freak Luke out? (VHS - SE) - Towanda_the_amazon
  • Explanation: Towanda_the_amazon, Luke is the one that says, "Death," on Degobah! - Jedi Master Kcir