Wow, there is no pleasing some people right? You whined during the prequels that it didn't feel anything like Star Wars, and now when they're litteraly bringing in elements from the first 2 movies you're whining that it's too similar. I'm actually dumbfounded by some of the posts in here.
Anyway, I'm totally in the camp that this is probably the 3rd best movie in the franchise, easily. Pretty much everything worked in the movie except some of the old throwbacks (we get it R2 played space chess against Chewie, you don't need to shove it in my face). I loved Kylo as a villian, and it actually made me upset because THIS is how Anakin should've been in the prequels instead of the, well you know *shudders*.
Now was the movie perfect? Hell no! Did it need to be? Absolutely not. This is just Disney playing their safe card to get people that pretty much turned their backs on the franchise after the prequels on board again. But the only thing I find funny is how people are complaining SO MUCH about some of the plot threads in this movie, but RotJ gets a pass somehow? That ENTIRE segment on Tatooine has NO relevance to the rest of the movie and it's only there to tie up a loose end from Empire which could've been solved a lot quicker.
Anyway I'm rambling, but there's my 2 cents.