Featured in AniMat’s Crazy Cartoon Cast: Silly Old Deadly Bear (2022)
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Four kids make a mysterious discovery on their home planet that leads them to get lost in a strange and dangerous galaxy. Jude Law in “Skeleton Crew” and more stars from a galaxy far, far away. The holographic circus that entertains Neel’s younger siblings is the same one Chewbacca’s family watches in the infamous The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978).
Give me an Andor-style show set in the Old Republic with Jedi, Sith, and Nick Gillard as the stunt coordinator for the lightsaber battles
Like most kids of the 80s, I have fond memories of The Goonies, but I’d be lying if I said this was the direction I desperately wanted new Star Wars content to go. I mean, after the disappointment of the sequel trilogy and so many others—all of Disney’s live-action content except Andor, Rogue One, and the first two seasons of Mando I’d rate somewhere between mediocre and bad—I’m starving for some good, mature, epic Star Wars content. HOWEVER…
to be fair, I will say that Skeleton Crew is okay
It’s not offensive or poorly done; it’s not obviously cheap like The Book of Boba Fett; it’s not aimless like Mando’s Season 3; it’s not tradition-breaking like the sequels and Kenobi; it’s not tone-deaf like The Acolyte. Yay? This is basically Star Wars Goonies, a cool little story about a bunch of kids having an adventure in the Star Wars universe.
So far, so good
The writing is decent so far (up to episode 2): the effects, costumes, and locations look great; the whole thing has a certain charm. I imagine that this, like Andor, was a passion project for its creators and was seen as a little side project by the higher-ups who didn’t bother to get involved, which in this day and age at Lucasfilm is a blessing. 7.5/10.