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Like a fart under a duvet, you can’t avoid Star Wars, no matter how much you try. There was a recent new trailer for the Skeleton Crew and it didn’t go down very well. Described as Harry Potter or Goonies in space, it looked, dull.
As per usual, I had to watch it and review it. I’m really starting to think the other guys don’t like me. Apparently, they had a Christmas Dinner the other day, but I didn’t get invited. I had to review Skeleton Crew for you lot. They said there were strippers there, but I didn’t care about that. It was the free food I’m annoyed I missed out on.
You know the details, Jude Law and a bunch of kids. What is interesting is that Jon Watts and Christoper Ford have created the show. They are the creative minds behind the last three Spider-man movies.
The Story
We are introduced to Law’s character in a reveal that’s about as shocking as my mum phoning me asking how to record Eastenders on the toaster again.
There are two episodes streaming online and they open with Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), he’s a young lad, who dreams of being a Jedi. He’s in a single-parent family, but this time it’s the dad on his own, not a strong independent woman.
Wim, and his best friend, Neel, like playing Jedi with each other, not a euphemism. They have an aptitude test at school that will put them on a career path for the future. Wim’s dad tells him he has to study for it. How do you study for an aptitude test?
Wim missed the bus to school, yes, there’s a bus to school, we’ll come back to that. He finds a door and thinks it’s a buried Jedi Temple. He ends up at the principal’s office at school, where his dad doesn’t care about him, and meets Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). She’s now the main protagonist of the show.
She is smart, likes to exploit people and calls the boys stupid. Turns out the ‘hidden temple’ is actually a buried spaceship which whisks them off to space. Then all end up in a pirate stop-off point, aka, Tortuga. They meet Law and the episode ends.
The Look and Feel
On the opening planet in Skeleton Crew, it looks like Springfield from The Simpsons or The Jetsons. I’ve never seen The Jetson, but I did think it was Springfield. Honestly, I didn’t feel anything like Star Wars at all! It was just weird.
The school bus had a robot Otto driving it. We also see Fern for the first time, on a speeder bike, being cool and awesome, as all girls are.
Neel is a little boy elephant boy, who is there to sell toys. Oddly, he’s played by Robert Timothy Smith who was in Dear Santa, which I reviewed the other day. He’s a very good little actor, but it’s a shame they have him in a muppet suit.
As I said, the girls are better than the boys in every way. On the ship, they wake up a robot, SM33 (Nick Frost) and she convinces him that she killed his captain, which makes her the new captain. SM33 is fine with this and carries on with a young 10-year-old girl as captain…just like in real life.
They Like the Skeleton Crew?
I’ve seen people like Theory, and a couple of other YouTubers, say they like the show. It reminds them of what it was like to be a kid with dreams of becoming a Jedi. Honestly, I didn’t see this at all.
I like to think I can appreciate things for who they are made for. Watching a black-and-white Laurel & Hardy I wouldn’t compare it to Endgame. I saw Wild Robot the other day and, although it was a kid’s movie, enjoyed it. I can relate to kids; I used to be one.
The kids here are far too young to be believable. They are about 10 – 12 years old and going to somewhere like Tortuga, would have been killed or sold into slavery in minutes. Instead, they ended up in the brig and it was bloody stupid.
Skeleton Crew is aimed at kids, very young kids, but for me, it’s aimed at kids too young. Wow, writing this I am trying very hard not to sound like Brian Singer! The show is aimed at kids, who might enjoy it, but for me, none of it is working.
Overall
It’s not good. I see that it’s had some of the highest ratings since Andor, but that’s nothing to shout about. Comparing this to the last Star Wars show, The Acolyte, Skeleton Crew is an Oscar-winning masterpiece!
I honestly went into this, wanting to give it a go and try and like it, but I can’t. It’s another dilution of Star Wars, that makes it a bit less special.
Chances are, I will have to watch the rest of the series, thank goodness they are only 30 minutes an episode. Although, I just read that in one of the up-and-coming episodes, we learn that one of the kids has two moms.
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