My favorite Bad Movie! It's terrible and everyone should watch it! A few additional details:
• linguistic things I know that almost kind of make some sense:
~ Presbyter means Elder, thus the Jedi Council of Elders becomes the Presbyterian Church.
~ Padme is sometimes called The Plum Of - one of the few words I know in Chinese is 梅, pronounced méi, which means plum.
~ Luke is called See Me when he's born, which could be a result of someone mishearing his name and translating "look" to Chinese and back.
~ Chinese doesn't have words that translate exactly to "yes" or "no", so characters often express agreement by saying "is." instead of "yes." and this is also the reason for the most famous line of the movie "DO NOT WANT!” (replacing Vader's drawn-out "NOOOOO!!" at the end).
• The general backstory of the movie is that an American living in Beijing in 2005 saw Revenge of the Sith and liked it, and wanted to watch it again so he bought a bootleg DVD from his local bootleg DVD guy. When he went to watch it, it was dubbed over in Chinese (which he kind of expected, it's China) but that was ok because there were English subtitles. One would expect that, since the movie is originally in English, the English subtitles would match the original movie. This was not so. For some reason, whoever made the DVD made the English subtitles by translating the translated Chinese back to English using some sort of translation software. Even the best computer translations were of questionable quality in 2005, and they were absolutely not using the best ones, resulting in something nearly unrecognizable as a Star Wars movie. They even translated the text in the opening crawl, even though it was already text. "STAR WAR: BACKSTROKE OF THE WEST. THE WAR CAME! THE REPUBLIC ENCOUNTERED! TWO SQUARES FIGHT THE VEHEMENCE! THE IMPROBITY FILLS THE WORLD..."
• Naturally once he saw the absolute gem that was this translation, he posted it on the internet (I think reddit but I'm not sure and too lazy to look it up), where a bunch of people watched it and decided to create a dubbed version of this script. Yoda's voice is a bit weird, but otherwise the amateur voice actors did an excellent job not only sounding like the original actors but even timing the words to line up as well as possible with the mouths moving on screen. This is what's on youtube, with two sets of English subtitles - the badly translated version that matches the dubbed audio, or the original script so you can see what each like looked like before being ran through the Language Mangler 2000. This also means that technically if you turn the sound off and the "real" subtitles on, a deaf person (or anyone who doesn't mind watching a movie silently) could watch the actual Revenge of the Sith for free on youtube.
• Anakin's (primary) name is Allah Gold, which may explain why he's not allowed to join the Presbyterian Church.
~ Sometimes this is shortened to just Gold, and later when he becomes Reaching The West Of Reaches, The Plum Of starts calling him Line.
~ Most of the main characters are called by multiple names or variations of a name, and as mentioned above Darth Plagueius and R2D2 have the same name (Reach The Man) (although R2D2 is also often just called R2)
~ Whoever translated it to Chinese didn't even try to translate General Grievous's name, so he's just called Space General, which is one of the most reasonable names in the whole movie, along with Senator and Child.
~ If you count titles as names, Palpatine has the most. D, Speaker D, Mister Speaker, The D, The Prime Minister, The Governor of the City, the Emperor of the West. There may be more I'm forgetting.
• The West is not a place, it is what the Sith are called, except when they're called the Big. (Yes, The D is a Big.)
• There's three F-bombs, my favorite of which is when Ratio Tile (Obi-Wan) asks "R2, do you is fucking?" while R2 is hacking a lock. Because it is of the utmost importance in the middle of a rescue mission to find out if the droid fucks.
• As mentioned above, the Presbyterian Church leads the Hopeless Situation Warriors, but they forgot to mention that the Hopeless Situation Warriors get their strength from The Wish Power. That's what it's called. "The wish power is together with you." It's also called the Original Dint.
• Reach The Man learned to use the original dint to create life, but then lost his power and died, "and then his land killed him to let him going to bed". So he died twice but is also still alive as a droid??
• tldr: it's very funny, there's a bunch of great lines, watch it.
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