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The latest trailer for the next Star Wars film is an explosive return to form to the old-fashioned Saturday afternoon matinee style seen in vintage Hollywood serials featuring Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon back in the heady days of pulp science fiction, something George Lucas's original Star Wars Trilogy tried to faithfully capture and did so beautifully.

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Jabba the Hutt's slimy warlord cousins known as "The Twins." (Image credit: Disney/Lucasfilm)

In Disney/Lucasflim's $166 million spinoff feature we find Pedro Pascal reprising his role as feared bounty hunter Din Djarin from the Disney+ TV series, "The Mandalorian." He's teaming up with the green-skinned, pint-sized Baby Yoda to track down wanted criminals for the New Republic.

This cosmic adventure is stuffed with Star Wars characters, ships and lore, including a shiny new Razor Crest spaceship, hateful Hutt twins on the moon of Nar…