The first time I tried to watch this I didn't get very far before the dialogue made me turn it off.
Saturday I was stuck in a guard shack for 9 hours with almost no traffic so my boredom got the better of me and I gave it a chance.
If Han wasn't a character and this was an unrelated heist movie that took place in the Star Wars universe it would be okay, not great but okay for a fun popcorn movie.
The fan service was WAY over the top for me, to the point that it took me out of the story quite a few times. It felt like the movie was winking saying "remember when x said x in the OT!?" Like it was written by a group of fans that each wanted come up with a "clever" connection to the OT and shoehorn it in whether it made sense or not.
That said, I don't think it was the Trainwreck (see how clever that is?
) I was expecting (it subverted those). Woody did a good job with his character (they should have had Ted Danson do a cameo as the bartender), Emelia Clarke was enjoyable and I thought Glover did a good job as a young Lando. I'll even give the space squid a pass since this is supposed to be the SW universe that has established large creatures living in a vacuum.
The fan service was piled on but for me the most annoying was those stupid dice! That was clearly trying to tie the prequel to the ST, we never saw those dice in the OT but they seem to be significant in the ST (we're supposed to get an "ah-ha!" moment when they show up in solo I suppose). I thought hanging the lucky dice were too much of an "earth" thing in the ST but in Solo it felt like an American graffiti move when he hangs them in the speeder.
This could have been cool but it stumbles over the fan service every few minutes.