If you’ve been holding out for the release of Rogue One on DVD, you’re not alone. The film is one of the highest grossing movies of all time, with over $1 billion in box office receipts. Rogue One also underwent extensive rewrites and reshoots, so you won’t see many alternate scenes on the DVD release. Nonetheless, it’s sure to be a hit.

Star Wars: Rogue One is the seventh highest-grossing film of all time

While the original Star Wars movies have long been the top picks, Rogue One is the first standalone entry in the Star Wars franchise. This film surpassed the $1 billion mark worldwide in its opening weekend, earning $531.7 million in the United States alone. It is also Disney’s highest grossing film ever. It is currently the seventh highest grossing film of all time, surpassing the previous record held by “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl,” which made $1 billion in just three months.

The film is being played in 4,157 theaters, a 23 percent increase from the opening weekend of The Force Awakens. More screens are showing Rogue One, including 540 Premium Large Format screens, the largest format of any Disney film. There are also 3,665 3D theaters and 193 D-Box locations. Rogue One is playing in more than 13 percent of K-12 schools, compared to 18 percent one year ago.

It’s a sassy pants film

Despite its bleak nature, Star Wars Rogue One is a sassy pant-making film. Its dark themes are tempered by a healthy dose of light popcorn fare. Alan Tudyk voices the sassy Imperial-turned-Rebel droid K-2SO, while Donnie Yen plays the blind Force-obsessed warrior Chirrut Imwe. As we learn in this film, rogues gallery of familiar faces and heroic leaders, like Mon Mothma and Bail Organa, are a constant presence in this sassy film.

The film suffers from prequelitis. While it makes an effort to tie in to the previous movies and the Star Wars universe, the film is ultimately beholden to its source material. It features a CGI reimagination of Peter Cushing as Tarkin. But unlike the previous films, this is no quick cameo. Cushing’s Tarkin is a full-fledged talking role, and he adds a nice touch to the film.

It’s got humor

In the world of Star Wars, the humor in Rogue One isn’t very subtle. Though the film is light on jokes, it’s still full of meme-worthy potential. Here are some examples. Princess Leia’s scene in A New Hope is hilarious – she’s telling an untrustworthy cover story. She’s half-heartedly believing in her plan, but she eventually gets caught.

Darth Vader makes fun of the Rebels in Star Wars: Rogue One, which also features a lot of humor. The character is a master of decapitation, and he’s quick to remind people of this. This gruesome humor isn’t so far-fetched, as it makes the movie feel much more human. Despite the fact that the film is a satire, it still has a lot of heart and levity.

It’s got wit

The newest installment in the Star Wars franchise is rife with wit and humor. This movie is the first in a new series of “anthology” movies being made by Lucasfilm, which will tell stories set within the established Star Wars universe. The story begins where The Force Awakens left off, with the Rebels acquiring the plans to build the Death Star. The movie sets the stage for 1977’s Star Wars.

The tone of the film is deliberately rooted in nostalgia and fan service for the original trilogy. It also speaks to the “grim and gritty” attitude of mid-1980s comic book movies, which were popular but often depressing. This approach was a departure from the fanciful, swashbuckling nature of the original movies, and it made for a much more serious, thought-provoking film.

It’s got original material

The new Star Wars film has a lot of original material, but the tone of the film is anchored in fan service and nostalgia for the original trilogy. It also channels the “grim and gritty” attitude of the comic book movies that were so popular during the mid-1980s. At the time, these movies tried to inject weight and complexity into the genre by placing popular characters in depressing, realistic storylines.

Rogue One is a prequel to A New Hope, but it’s a completely different story than that film. Written by Tony Gilroy and Gary Whitta, Rogue One is a new take on an old fanboy joke. While it’s rooted in Star Wars mythology, it still manages to have original material and feel like fan fiction. It’s a good example of a movie that has its own original material and still manages to make the audience care.