Until recently I had no idea this thing and its sequel were ever made. Oh, if only I could have retained that blissful ignorance. This is the worst aspects of the Ewoks spun out into a feature-length production that I assume went straight to video. After a family crash-lands on the Ewok planet, the two children are separated from their parents when a giant snatches the older generation. The Ewoks adopt the kids and set off on a quest to reunite them with their parents. Act two in particular drags on forever as the “caravan of courage” encounters peril after pointless peril on the journey to the monster’s lair. Without the lavish production budget of an actual Star Wars movie, the title creatures look even more like glass-eyed carpet remnants than they did in Return of the Jedi. Narration by Burl Ives lends a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer quality, which doesn’t make it any easier to take this seriously. See if desperate
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