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Featured in AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast: Silly Old Deadly Bear (2022)
Scenario
Four kids make a mysterious discovery on their home planet that leads them to get lost in a strange and dangerous galaxy.. Jude Law’s "Skeleton Crew" plus more stars from a galaxy far, far away.. The holographic circus that is entertaining Neel's young siblings is the same one Chewbacca's family watched in the infamous The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)..
Because Star Wars stuff is no longer "created"
I can imagine how the initial pitch went like: "It's going to be like The Goonies but in the Star Wars universe! We'll take the kids's angle to look into the concept, while making it interesting via elements from The Treasure Island with a visual touch of Pirates of the Caribbean. Think of how Super 8 worked – a Spielberg-ish childhood fantasy!"So much effort, so much visual details and trivia, yet, you can get bored along the way.
Skeleton Crew is, well, neither so bright nor so demented
It's simply being "generated" the way AI generates images. I'll be happy if this one manages to attract today's kids into the original Star Wars stories but if the question at hand is whether adults would be on board this pirate ship, not so sure here.The Mandalorian rocks as the unique SW series that had a gravitas of sorts, leaning more towards Sergio Leone westerns than to cheaper space operas. The Acolyte was a betrayal to SW at the very least.
It was wrong
I don't feel like glorifying or trashing it.But I do have some resentment with Disney's treatment of SW… They never even tried to respect and explore the essence of the concept… Rather, they turned it into a "setting" for whatever series they felt like doing. SW is, in and of itself, a dynamic network of valuable ideas and stories to communicate. What Disney+ had been doing is utilizing it for external agendas, concerns and pushes.Anyways…
Unlike The Acolyte, Skeleton Crew is at the very least not toxic – so far
(And I'm waiting for the great explanation to why a Jedi would need to wait for some kids to be thrown into his jail cell in order to perform his most simple trick and make the key come to him!). Fresh up your Watchlist with the latest roster of streaming movies and TV shows coming to Disney+, featuring old favorites and top-notch newcomers.