STAR WARS TRIVIAL PURSUIT DVD Is Cool But Shallow

I'm deviating from music to write a review of a board game I played with my boyfriend yesterday. Star Wars Trivial Pursuit DVD is another classic Tie-in version of a classic game, in this case Trivial Pursuit. 
     The idea is simple, you have the board and the various tokens, cards, and wedges. Whichever color spot you land on you have to answer a question in that category. If you land on one of the wedge spots, you get a wedge if you answer that category question correctly. And once you have all the wedges in the slots you move back to the starting point.
       This version includes as DVD which makes the game a little more tricky. It includes a time limit for how long you have to answer the question. Some of the questions aren't even questions, but visual puzzles. It uses such things pixelation, close-up shots, sound distortions, even some concept art to see if you can guess the character, vessel, or scene. Once you hit past a certain point for each category, you just use a card. Once you get back to the starting point after collecting all the wedges, you are given a final question to determine who wins.
    
On the one hand, it is a fun idea and it challenges you to think on your feet. At the same time, it does feel gimmicky. Of course it's nor so gimmicky you can't enjoy it, but it's still an issue. 
    Unfortunately, while the questions and puzzles on the DVD are very creative, the questions on the cards are very easy---especially for someone like me who knows the hexology by heart (Okay there were a few that were about nitpicky details that I could not remember, but still).
   
  I remember playing a plain version of Star Wars Trivial Pursuit when I was nineteen. This version may have had its own goofy gimmick---instead of rolling a die, you had an R2-D2 figure that gave you a random number between 1 and 6 when you pressed his dome---but the questions on the cards were more challenging. There were even cards dedicated to entire characters, planets, objects, etc.. I remember one card being entirely devoted to Oola, and all she gets in ROTJ is a swan song before being thrown into the rancor pit! I think it worked a lot better than the one with the DVD.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give this game a 6. It's a very creative idea and is a lot of fun to play. But it doesn't quite measure up to expectations. I think it wants to be both a board game and a video game at the same time. If so, then I would suggest instead of making it a physical board game with a DVD included, they should go the Mario Party route and make it a full-fledged video game that you play on a console. That way you can have the challenge of moving around the board while answering some very creative trivia questions.

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UPDATE: It's less shallow is you use the cards for the none-wedge squares and save the video questions for the wedge squares.