1.5 stars tops
Starting with the lame:
Leia using the force (or the force choosing to save Leia). Lame. Did anyone notice she looked like a Christmas tree angel floating around in the void? Leia never once wielded the force and the force never seemed to care about anyone's physical bodies anyway.
The whole casino episode. Lame
The forced humor, Lame. The humor in previous episodes were mostly due to dry one liners. The scene with Po and Hux in the beginning was some kind of "who's on first?" knock off.
The cutsy animals....Lame! Chewbacca is the dude who was going to pull your arm off if you beat him in galactic chess or whatever that game was he was playing with R2D2 in Episode IV. You going to tell me that this hungry Wookie wouldn't eat that tasty roasted morsel?
Rose saving Finn, WTF? Finn was about to save everyone's life by doing a Kamikaze job on the battering ram....
The general sense that they were trying to cram too many story lines and plot twists into one movie. Episode IV was brilliant not because of the good acting or the great effects (which were revolutionary for the time, though). Episode IV was great because it was a tight story that moved along without getting bogged down in cuteness and surreptitiously clever plot twists.
Kind of Ok.
Ren killing Snoke, but I was left to wonder, how did the all powerful being, who "saw everything" and had apparently been in charge of even the Sith, not foresee the ol' light saber to the side trick?
Rey and Ren fighting side by side. I thought for a moment that the story would go in a completely different direction, which would have been more fitting for our world of 2017 where every hero has to have his own demons.
Ren going all old school with "the queen is dead, long live the queen". Pretty fitting since the Empire was always based on the British.
Some of the effects were great. That red mineral crap that was flying up everywhere during the final battle was visually pretty cool.
Good
Luke using his astral projection skill to fool Ren. He could have never faced down an army in a physical body and the scene served as a nice vehicle for the theme that ultimately, physical power and military might cannot overcome what is good and true.
The fallibility of the Jedi. The Jedi were never meant to be gods and only wielded the force via their own imperfect human lens.
Rey's parents just being nobodies (assuming that's actually the truth). The force can choose to work through whichever vessel it likes.
What I want to see in Episode IX:
Rey unifies the force and finally brings balance. That is the only way the saga can truly end. As long as the yin and the yang of the force are in conflict with one another, the galaxy will be in a constant state of war. I suppose it would be more fitting if Ren did that, since he is the grandson of Vader and Vader was supposed to be the one to bring balance to the force.