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Critic Reviews
Nov 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
We finally have a sequel that continues the Willow saga with the heart and soul the story deserves. Disney+‘s new series Willow is a raggedy, hilarious, and absolutely enchanting continuation of the Lucasfilm cult classic. Instead of wallowing in “grimdark” imagery or losing itself tripping over unnecessary mystery boxes, Willow embraces the joy of its source material. Willow is a tour de force of fun and fantasy frivolity.
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Nov 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The series goes to more, and more interesting, places, with fuller characterizations, less predictable plot lines and sharper jokes. The movie was vaguely humorous, but the series is legitimately a comedy between, and often during, the scenes of suspense and violence. ... Everyone pulls their weight. Sequels are often a matter of diminishing returns, but “Willow” pays dividends.
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Nov 30, 2022
Nov 30, 2022EmpireNov 29, 2022
Season 1 Review:
This is an unapologetically traditional fantasy, with no pretentions to Game Of Thrones-style grimness or Lord Of The Rings cultural depth. But it also has vivid characters, scary moments and fun obstacles, and they carry it briskly along. In the end it relies far less on nostalgia and more on expanding the world of the original film to encompass new complexity and new identities among all these daikinis, and that’s a real treat.
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Nov 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Willow,” Disney+’s entry in the big streaming fantasy sweepstakes of 2022, may initially seem like a Disney Channel version of “Rings of Power” or “House of the Dragon.” ... Get through the premiere episode, though, and you’ll be rewarded with a little magic. The actors calm down and their teenage characters develop compelling dimensions; the action and world-building grow more awesome each week; and self-mocking humor lends a freshness absent from the super-serious Prime Video and HBO mega-productions.
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Nov 30, 2022
RogerEbert.comNov 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
In lesser hands, this could fall flat on its face, so it’s a pleasant surprise to find just how easily it all goes down. Each member of the ensemble gets their chance to shine, both individually and when paired off. ... But any time we stray from our likable ensemble into the dirty business of the adventure, the show starts to lose steam.
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IndieWireNov 30, 2022
The GuardianNov 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
If you’re inclined towards a YA-quest series, this one is at least on a par with others in that genre, such as Netflix’s thematically similar The Letter for the King. The gags are better and, if the episode one battle scene is any indication, the monster effects have just the right amount of foggy menace. Willow is worth reviving, even if we probably won’t remember it for long.
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Nov 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Willow is solidly down-the-middle entertainment that aims to deliver mnemonic pleasures to an audience that already loves the property, with a few updated ideas and some buffed-and-polished special effects. It suffers mostly when it doesn’t quite grasp the voice and tone of the original film, but just as its successes aren’t really dazzling, its failures aren’t fatal.
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The Daily BeastNov 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
[Willow] only exhibits a spark of life whenever Davis is cracking wise or admonishing his compatriots to follow his lead, which isn’t frequent enough. Perhaps Willow has some amazing surprise around its later corners that justify this return trip to Tir Asleen. On the basis of its maiden installments, though, it mostly comes across as another unnecessary if passable bit of IP exploitation.
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The PlaylistNov 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, “Willow” is an underdeveloped legacy sequel that somehow stretches the source material to its breaking point, while never reaching the same heights of good old-fashioned fun that a fantasy epic should have at its heart. By chopping up the story into tedious, overlong episodes, the magic has been bleached from its bones, leaving behind a rotting corpse that resembles its inspiration on the surface only.
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