The Ewok Adventure (1984) (TV)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

John Korty

Writers:

George Lucas (story)
Bob Carrau (teleplay)

Release Date:

25 November 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

You'll live the adventure... You'll love it's heroes.

Plot:

Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children on a quest to find their parents.

Plot Keywords:

Moon | Forest | Quest | Monster | Giant Monster

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination

Cast

Burl Ives	...	Narrator (voice)
Eric Walker	...	Mace
Warwick Davis	...	Wicket W. Warrick
Fionnula Flanagan	...	Catarine
Guy Boyd	...	Jeremitt
Aubree Miller	...	Cindel
Daniel Frishman	...	Deej
Debbie Lee Carrington	...	Weechee
Tony Cox	...	Widdle
Kevin Thompson	...	Chukha-Trok
Margarita Fernández	...	Kaink
Pam Grizz	...	Shodu
Bobby Bell	...	Logray
Darryl Henriques	...	Wicket (voice) (as Daryl Henriquez)
Sydney Walker	...	Deej (voice)

Also Known As:

Caravan of Courage (USA) (DVD box title)
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (UK) (theatrical title) (USA) (DVD title)

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:LH | Australia:PG | Finland:K-8 | Sweden:7 | UK:U | West Germany:6

Filming Locations:

Marin County, California, USA

Company:

Korty Films

Trivia:

Though made for TV, actually got a short theatrical run in Germany.

Goofs:

Continuity: Towards the end of the movie, Mace throws an ax into the back of Gorax's head, and it sticks inside. Then the next two shots showing that part of the Gorax's head shows no ax sticking out of the Gorax's head.

Quotes:

Mace: Listen, as soon as I get my gun, we're history, we're outta this place.
Cindel: Why can't we stay here with them?
Mace: Stay here with these walking hairbrushes? Come on Cindel, the're animals.

Movie Connections:

Spin off from Star Wars (1977)

What a cheap way to cash in on an already celebrated franchise.

I can tell you a thing or two about the dirty aspects of commercialism. For one thing, greed and marketing plays a prominent part in the merchandising phase and two, for all "their good intentions" it dampens the appeal of the original product despite the fact that said material has already been established. Ahhh, the power of corporate politics. In this case, Lucas tried to do the same thing with the prequels (though Episode 3 was great, don't hate me) and failed horribly and Ewok Adventure is another example albeit from a much less commercialized era. About the film itself? well I could say its cute in a "Star Wars geek" kinda way but then I'll be lying to myself if I do. As the title of this review states, this is nothing more than a cheap cash in on an already established universe. The fact that two, count 'em TWO movies were made featuring those despised little walking "rugs" is cringe-worthy of morbid epic proportions. To me they kinda resemble those Teletubbies of late; only with fur. Why? Why try to milk something that was so successful to begin with for what its worth? Why didn't he scrap this crap and just make a Star Wars TV series, live-action style?!?!?! Instead he made this sci-fi excrement. Purely and fundamentally useless. It serves nothing more than a nuisance to anything worthy of mass appeal and critical praise. This was made for kids aka THE TARGET AUDIENCE of the world. At least its nice to know that adults don't have to even look at....this...thing dipped ever so eloquently in sweet dippedy-doo-daa candy laced fudge even if that was Mr. Lucas and co original intent. Are they're good parts? The special effects are nice. That's just about it.

You could do a lot worse and I MEAN A LOT WORSE seeing this vomit-inducing piece on Lucas's now-corporate-minded part or if you want a more "humane" solution you could check yourself into a mental health facility where you're most likely stay for several years if you can't erase those horribly disturbing haunting images from your ever so delicate psyche. The sky is falling in this Orwellian age of psychotic pop stars, weak US dollar, Tom Cruise's fax paux religion, and other bizarre things happening in the world today, one can only hope that a resistance movement is formed to combat and defeat the evil forces of commercialism to ensure the rest of humanity that crap like this NEVER is made to be seen AGAIN. Ever.