Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

Matt Roush says...

The most Disneyfied Star Wars spinoff to date, reminiscent of the animated Star Trek: Prodigy in premise, has a little Goonies in its DNA as it introduces four kids from a futurized-suburban planet who embark on the galactic adventure of a lifetime — by accident. “Don’t you ever want to do anything exciting?” says imagination-prone Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers) to his more cautious blue-elephant pal Neel (Robert Timothy Smith) before they cross paths with scrappy rebel Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) and her sidekick KB (Kyriana Kratter) on the site of what turns out to be a buried starship. Curiosity gets the better of them, and before you know it, the foursome set off into hyperspace, their only companion a broken-down droid, SM 33 (the amusing voice of Nick Frost). Like Dorothy in Oz, they’re eager to get back home — well, Wim not so much (“We just got here!” he gushes) — and maybe a cloaked mystery man played by Jude Law will get them there. But not before more misadventures in a galaxy far, far away. Launches with two episodes, then airing weekly on Tuesdays.

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