Once you’ve struck gold with a successful YouTube mashup, there’s only one way to follow it up: a prequel with more CGI, more pod racing, and a hyperactive rastafarian lizard used as comic relief. So naturally, after YouTube critic The Unusual Suspect had a hit mashing up the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer with clips for the original Star Wars trilogy, it was only a matter of time before he moved on to the prequels. The result leans on the same swashbuckling musical cues — Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling” and Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky” — but swaps Han for a computerized Yoda and Leia for Padme. Naturally, Jar Jar is sentenced to death within the first minute.
The ‘Star Wars’ prequels get the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ treatment
Jar Jar is marked for death
Jar Jar is marked for death
Update 11:50AM ET: An earlier version of this post stated that Spirit in the Sky was performed by Steve Miller. It’s actually by Norman Greenbaum.
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