THE LEGO STARS WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Funny, uplifting Star Wars adventure needing discernment for older children.
Should You Watch It?
If your family enjoys Star Wars and LEGO humor, this special offers a lively holiday adventure. It revisits familiar characters and plotlines, while promoting family, friendship, positive relationships, joy, and earning one’s status through merit.
The main concern is its worldview. The supernatural power used by heroes and villains comes from the Force, an impersonal energy connecting all things rather than from a Personal God. That idea deserves discernment, especially for younger children.
Older children and adults can enjoy the comedy and excitement while discussing those differences from Christian belief. For Star Wars families, this is worth watching together with thoughtful guidance.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESRey, Finn, and their friends travel to Chewbacca’s home planet to celebrate Life Day with Chewbacca and his family. While General Poe struggles with the festivities, Rey struggles to train Finn as a Jedi Knight.
Searching for answers, Rey discovers a key to the galaxy’s past in a Jedi temple. When she uses it, she is pulled into the history of the Jedi and accidentally places important victories at risk.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this is a highly entertaining special. Like other recent LEGO movies, it is both funny and exciting, with comic situations, energetic action, and familiar Star Wars characters and plotlines.
Star Wars fans will enjoy revisiting the first six movies, while Ben—Han Solo and Leia’s son from the last three movies—becomes a major character here. The special also includes a funny reference to the series The Mandalorian. Its positive, uplifting themes give the adventure a warm center.
The Worldview
The special celebrates family, friendship, connection, joy, and positive relationships. Life Day is presented as a holiday centered on family, friendship, and connection, while the characters learn that failure can help people become better. Yoda also rejects the idea of receiving status without earning it.
The central concern is the Star Wars view of supernatural power. The Force is a living, impersonal energy connecting all things, and it can be used for good or evil. Jedi Knights train to use it, while the Sith use its Dark Side. This is a New Age, monistic, pagan worldview rather than a biblical understanding of power coming from a Personal God.
The special’s emphasis on connection overlaps partly with Christian fellowship, but Christianity begins with a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, followed by personal relationships with other people. The source also connects Star Wars’ vision to ideas drawn from pagan religions, Buddhism, Japanese samurai stories, and Chinese folktales about life energy.
The longing for family and fellowship is good, but Scripture points beyond created connection to God himself: “God is love” (1 John 4:8).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong New Age, monistic pagan viewing supernatural power as residing in a living, impersonal energy “Force” connecting all things instead of a Personal God, mitigated by some moral, redemptive elements promoting family, friendship, joy, relationship, Yoda tells young Luke Skywalker, “Participation trophies for Jedi there are not,” and Yoda tells Rey we can learn by our failures to become better people, plus the program’s fight against evil is a fight against totalitarianism
Foul Language
No foul language
Violence
Lots of cartoon action violence includes lightsaber battles, laser gun battles, explosions, people falling, and two characters are briefly knocked out during one fight scene
Sex
No sexual content
Nudity
Upper male nudity in one scene when Kylo Ren has his shirt off
Alcohol Use
No alcohol use
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No smoking or drugs;
Miscellaneous Immorality
One male character seems a bit taken aback by another male character having his shirt off and can’t stop staring.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Life Day celebrates family, friendship, and connection. How does Christian fellowship differ from simply being connected to other people?
1 John 1:3 · Acts 2:42Rey struggles because her training efforts do not seem to work. What can failure teach us, and how should we respond when we fail?
Proverbs 24:16 · James 1:2–4Yoda rejects unearned status. What does Scripture say about humility, merit, and serving others?
Philippians 2:3–4 · Mark 10:43–45The Force is presented as an impersonal power. How does the Bible describe God’s character and power?
Jeremiah 10:6 · Matthew 28:18The Final Word
This funny, exciting LEGO adventure offers older children and adults a joyful celebration of family and friendship. Its Force-centered worldview calls for discernment, but thoughtful families can discuss that concern together. For Star Wars fans, the answer is WORTH THE TRIP — OLDER CHILDREN AND ADULTS.
