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‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ and a Delightful Jude Law Take the Franchise Back to Its Kid-Friendly Roots: TV Review
Jude Law stars in 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew', the first of its Disney+ series to return the franchise to its kid-friendly roots.
Modern IP mining, which co-creators Jon Watts and Christopher Ford (both of “Spider-Man: Homecoming”) are no strangers to, is an exercise in grown-up kids getting to play with hand-me-down toys; there’s something refreshing about seeing that process literalized in a child gleefully running amok on a spaceship. Wim and his widowed father Wendle (Tunde Adebimpe) live on At Attin, a suspiciously utopian planet that silos its young citizens into career tracks to assist in “the great work” of post-Empire state building — but doesn’t allow any starships to enter or exit its rigorously guarded airspace. That seclusion explains why Wim mistakes a grounded ship for a lost Jedi temple, and how he ends up stranded far, far away with Neel and two new, uneasy allies: swaggering tomboy Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) and tech whiz KB (Kyriana Kratter, sporting a sick bob and a Cyclops-esque headpiece).
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