In the machete order, you watch A New Hope, then The Empire Strikes Back, and then when you find out Darth Vader is Luke’s father, you go back and watch Episodes I, II, and III to understand how all that happened. Still, on some level, watching the movies this way is the most honest, since, for better or worse, this technically depicts the fictional events in a galaxy far, far away in the order in which they happened. The disadvantage of watching the movies this way is that if you include the most recent prequels - Rogue One and Solo - you’ll be five movies deep before you even get to Luke Skywalker, which seems crazy. That said, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is one of the most kid-friendly movies in this messy and frightening franchise, and it also features a child as the primary protagonist. So, if you start watching the movies in release order now, you don’t have to course-correct when a whole new trilogy comes out a few years from now.Ī New Hope (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983), The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), Revenge of the Sith (2005), The Force Awakens (2015), Rogue One (2016), The Last Jedi (2017) , and Solo (2018) and then, The Rise of Skywalker (2019).Īdmittedly, this might the hardest way to go, if only because so many adults have a hard time accepting that the Star Wars prequels are the beginning of the saga. Mild spoilers for all of the Star Wars movies ahead.īut, watching the movies in release order is good for one other reason: New Star Wars movies are still coming out and will presumably continue to do so for a long, long time. We’ve come up with four different logical ways you can watch the Star Wars movies for the first time.
Is watching the classic trilogy before the prequels the way to go? And what about the “Star Wars Stories” Solo and Rogue One? These are age-old questions, but luckily we’ve tackled them in great detail ( more than once!). You also might want to avoid the Ewok movies with kids altogether, they’re actually super depressing.)
(Yeah, I received a lot of emails from people mad we didn’t include the Ewok movies. (Just remember it happens after Return of the Jedi, but before The Force Awakens, cool? Baby Yoda is not actually Yoda, his name is Grogu! ) We’re also not going to include non-canon stuff. For the purposes of this piece, we’re gonna focus just on the movies, meaning we’ll consider The Mandalorian its own thing, and just sort of watch it whenever you want.
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