Published on Apr 16, 2015 
 
 Get your first look at the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser #2! 
 
 
 
 Lucasfilm and visionary director J.J. Abrams join forces to take you back again to a galaxy far, far away as “Star Wars” returns to the big screen with “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” 
 
 
 
 Episode VII in the Star Wars Saga, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, opens in theaters December 18, 2015. 
 
 
 
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 Star Wars: The Force Awakens, directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan & Abrams, features a cast including actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o, Gwendoline Christie, Crystal Clarke, Pip Andersen, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow. They will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker. 
 
 
 
 The film is being produced by Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk, and John Williams returns as the composer. 

 In case you missed it – perhaps you were in a galaxy, far, far away – the trailer for the new Star Wars movie was released yesterday. 
 
 Even though Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens isn’t due to be released until December 18, its trailer was unleashed eight months ahead of that date, at a huge “official fan convention” in California. 
 
 The Telegraph’s film critic Robbie Collin flew half way around the world to see its 111 seconds and compared the event, attended by 7,500 variously fancy-dressed miscreants, to “a mass flamingo flocking, or perhaps the migration of wildebeest across the Serengeti”. 
 
 The trailer was also shown as a simulcast online and, globally, grown men starting behaving the way tween girls do when Justin Bieber takes his top off. 
 
 Like Beliebers, Star Wars fans (how can it be that they don’t even have a name, like Trekkies?) took leave of their senses, gushed adoringly in quasi-orgasmic tones and posted wildly inappropriate tweets. Some even started dressing as Storm Troopers and body-popping on YouTube. 
 
 Just went through an entire box of tissues from all the tears I cried after watching the new Star Wars trailer! — michael bohn (@therettes) April 16, 2015 
 
 One adult male tweeted: “I’ve watched the trailer 13 times now, I’m literally crying.” 
 
 Another: “I don’t think I’ve seen my wife this happy since our wedding day. In fact she might be happier”. Seriously? Perhaps he needs to up his game between the sheets. 
 
 Am I the only man who finds this behaviour all a bit odd? Shouldn’t grown men get over Star Wars already? 
 
 Don’t get me wrong: I quite like the look of the new trailer. To me, it looks mostly like every other Star Wars movie, only with better CGI. It certainly looks slicker than Tom Cruise’s sci-fi flick, Edge Of Tomorrow. 
 
 But “quite liking” Star Wars doesn’t seem to be an option these days. You’re either a fully paid-up convert, or a heathen. If you can't appreciate it as the foremost work of art of our age, you're a plebeian who just doesn’t get it. 
 
 I don’t dislike Star Wars. Far, far from it. I watched the entire box set last summer, which proved to be a life-saver on a monsoonal July week in Cornwall. My son loved it. But then, he’s six. 
 
 I remember going to see the first Star Wars film in 1977 and being pant-wettingly excited about it. But then, I was seven. 
 
 I’ll probably see The Force Awakens at some point, after my son nags me into submission due to the inevitable and unavoidable tsunami of marketing the film will receive. 
 
 The opening line of the new trailer – “the Force is strong in my family” – is telling. Because, like ginger hair, a Star Wars obsession is a condition that is passed on genetically. 
 
 I have close friends, colleagues and neighbours who baptised their sons into the Star Wars brethren while they were still in nappies (the kids, I mean). One has bought every Star Wars Lego toy in existence – these have the biggest franchise mark-up of them all – for his boy, who is not yet ten. He gleefully posts pictures of completed Millennium Falcons, AT-AT Walkers and Imperial Star Destroyers on Facebook, which I find simultaneously sweet and tragic. 
 
 I’ll admit, I’m partly guilty here, too. Like conjunctivitis, you can’t avoid picking up Star Wars toys when you’ve got a kid these days. After our Star Wars box-set marathon, I bought my son a replica light sabre, which – true to 1970s form – broke the first time he hit me with it, which prompted an emotional meltdown, a habit some Star Wars fans don’t seem to have grown out of. 
 
 I've watched the Star Wars trailer roughly 394293493294392 times now. — Chase Thomas (@CutToTheChaseT) April 16, 2015 
 
 You can forgive a small child getting overexcited about what is essentially a kids' movie franchise, but not adults. Of course, it’s a free world, I suppose, and Star Wars fans do not inflict any harm, especially if wielding a wobbly, defective light sabre. But like collecting action figures or skateboarding, shouldn't we leave Star Wars at puberty’s door? 
 
 Worst of all, Star Wars obsessives are complicit in the grandest financial extraction process in the history of popular culture. The Star Wars films and their re-releases have generated $4.54bn in worldwide ticket sales, according to Bloomberg data. This week, the release of the trailer for The Force Awakens added almost $2 billion to the value of Disney. 
 
 Stripped back to bare mammon – which is what all of this is really about – that makes Star Wars just another product, like Frozen, but with more lasers and less annoying songs. 
 
 And that’s why, sorry guys, I’m just not feeling the Force with Star Wars any more.
– The Internet went crazy yesterday when the second official trailer for Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens was uploaded to YouTube. Maybe a little too crazy, according to Martin Daubney, who pens a scathing yet colorful analysis in the Telegraph of what he thinks of the "mass hysteria"—which he also describes as "grown men … behaving the way tween girls do when Justin Bieber takes his top off." Some of his points: As a card-carrying adult, Daubney is at a loss about the sheer number of people dressing like Stormtroopers and posting "wildly inappropriate tweets" (he cites one where a guy confesses to weeping after watching the trailer 13 times). "Am I the only man who finds this behaviour all a bit odd?" he writes. "Shouldn't grown men get over Star Wars already?" He doesn't have a problem with the cinematography, which he says "looks mostly like every other Star Wars movie, only with better CGI." He throws a Tom Cruise jibe in there, too, writing, "It certainly looks slicker than … Edge of Tomorrow." It's not even that he's incapable of feeling that Star Wars vibe. He admits he saw the first film in the franchise in 1977 and "being pant-wettingly excited about it. But then, I was 7." Click to read the full column.