I remember doing the prison-establishing shots for that.
Where the hell's my money?

Hey Teague, is the Radiopunk address accessible to members only?
Mind if I link Dale Daugherty to it?

<--- Really digs Teague's writing style and sense of humor.

That fight immediately had me planning an extravagant scene where saplings are being sliced with every swing. Then they started doing that on screen.

Rey's got abandonment issues: the tally marks on her wall, the vision after touching the lightsaber, and so much hugs when Fin actually came back for her.

I may be way out of line here, but didn't the dialog mostly concern Fin and Rey introducing themselves to  people? Especially early in the thing, every word felt like an exposition dump. "The Falcon was stolen from whoever and sold to that other guy and then borrowed by Whathisnuts." I get it, there is a history here.

Apart from that, the visual story and action won me over when the kids blasted that second TIE fighter on Jakku, and the tentacle creatures are my favorite monsters yet. I did not retain their species name, in spite of the triple repetition... started with an R did it?

Fight choreo was superb, IMO. Untrained in style, even down to a few unnecessary twirl-flourished from Kylo Ren...just like we all do when there's nothing better to do while holding a lightsaber/stick. Lots of brutal non-lethal touches, even a chopped off hand!

7 hours 30minutes and counting down...

It was a bit odd that this was not simply live-action, I would only note that the scenes set in Limbo would have been a VFX challenge back then. Not to mention the scenes of the villain's mayhem and destruction.

I'll agree that Cusack doesn't pass the, "What does Brad Pitt sound like?" test, but neither does Meg Ryan. As it relates to the animated vs. live topic, perhaps the realistic human characters just needed realistic human voices? If it had been live, I'd call it perfect casting to their types. Also, these names are big enough to signal adult ticket buyers that this was not some shabby production.