The Ewok Movies Are Star Wars At Its Worst

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I hate myself. No, this isn’t a self-deprecating letter about what a terrible person I am, or how annoying I might be, or any other lowball self-esteem digs. I hate myself because I watched both Ewok movies back-to-back. I hate myself because I dragged my friend into it. I hate myself because the image of Wicket wrestling another Ewok is now burned into my brain. They’re terrible, but you knew that. What’s interesting is that looking back now, in 2022, when Star Wars is oversaturated and unending, the Ewok movies represent a turning point. They represent everything wrong with the series.

Caravan of Courage came out one year after Return of the Jedi when Star Wars hype was still sky-high. The second Death Star had just been blown up by the charismatic Lando while Luke took on his daddy issues with a sprinkle of electric shock therapy thrown in. Boba Fett had been digested, Han Solo was back, and the Emperor got to shine before being yeeted into oblivion. It was a hammy embrace of Star Wars’ lighter side. Jump ahead one year and you have an atrocious TV movie that spins off from Return’s most unpopular creation - the Ewoks. Specifically, Wicket. And with horrendous child acting! That’s not even mentioning that it breaks all ties to Star Wars, essentially being set on Earth with horses, dogs, and villains that feel pulled straight from an episode of Saban’s Power Rangers.

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Everything that made Star Wars good was absent. You had a medieval castle ruled by a brooding mistress in all black, bowing down to evil alien tyrants. She sounds and looks like a Sith lord, but she’s a menacing Raven cosplayer at best. And those aliens do little more than watch Ewoks sneak into