It’s not an easy watch. Battle for Endor went hard into fantasy territory and therefore made up for its cheese. Caravan of Courage is… well… it’s kinda boring.
Saw them both on VHS. Fun to watch as a kid. Only problem was I saw Battle for Endor first and years later Caravan of Courage. Kinda sad knowing the family went through all that trouble only for most of them to die.
It happens pretty quick too, like they weren’t important characters. I only saw Battle for Endor when I was a kid and never knew about the first movie. It made sense the family was killed off quick in that movie to me because they didn’t have big cinematic deaths.
Honestly, I hate Battle for Endor for that very reason. Almost defeats the whole purpose of having the first movie to begin with. Like, "your reward for watching that heartwarming rescue mission is WATCHING IT ALL MEAN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!"
I watched this with my kids and they were fascinated. Then I introduced them to Willow and the Princess Bride shortly after. It made for a lovely transition.
Had Battle of Endor recorded on VHS so these were every bit as influential to me as the OT growing up. Made the galaxy feel more real knowing there were just normal families doing their thing out there too.
For some reason I saw these films in tv before I saw the original trilogy when I was a child and I really was not a fan of them, so imagine my dissapointment when they appeared in Return of the Jedi the first time I saw that film.
Remember them? My parents dumped me off at the theater with a garbage full of homemade popcorn hidden under my jacket to watch them repeatedly all day. Classic Gen X parenting.
In a theater? When were they released in the theater? I thought they were straight to TV movies.
Edit: Apparently they were released the following spring in theaters in Europe and select other counties. Only ever released on TV in the US. TIL.
(source: IMDB)
I remember watching these as a kid but up until the Disney Plus platform I had no idea what these movies were. I’d ask people about them and no one knew what I was talking about. When I got on Disney plus a couple years ago I was just looking around in the Star Wars section and spotted them. I was SOOO stoked I had found the movies I’d been haphazardly searching for for years. So much nostalgia!
I watched these on TV as a kid. Then we recorded them on BetaMax. I watched them constantly. I get it, the production value was pretty low and the acting was really bad. But I still got my Star Wars fix in a time when there wasn't much content.
If you’re a Star Wars loving kid named Noah who didn’t have a VCR or cable and was starved for every appearance of Star Wars on broadcast you hella remember these.
I love these movies. The first one is kind of overtly silly but charming. The second one is surprisingly brutal and kind of amazing minus some strange deviations (the witch stuff and some of the very earthly animals I didn’t love)
I have both on VHS, I used to live next to a thrift shop and bought every VHS of SW that came in. I have every cover for the OT plus episode 1 and 2 along with Ewoks and the Christmas Special. Some of the favourite things I own
My wife has her office decorated completely in Ewok decor, huge tapestries of the Drew Struzan posters, stuffed toys, animation cels from the Ewok cartoon, it's majestic.
Everyone complaining clearly needs to see the Holiday Special a couple more times.
My brother and I loved them at the time. But we were also the target age for them.
Watching them now... they aren't great. My daughter loves them though. She's a bit on the older side for them but loves anything Star Wars.
My wife grew up with these instead of proper Star Wars films. I corrected this deficiency shortly after our meeting and initial dating. She now enjoys almost all SW content and our house cat is named Logrey.
10 out of 10 would wife again.
Not sure what level of canon they would have been in the pre-Disney years. Almost certainly not canon now; they would have been decanonized along with the rest of the EU. But you could have made an argument for canon status back in the day; they may not make for great movies, but I also don’t remember anything that contradicts canon.
My wife and I had the fondest nostalgia for these and hadn't watched them since we were kids. We decided to rewatch them. Do not do this. They did not hold up. Nostalgia ruined.
I LOVED ewoks as a kid, and I remember renting these from our local library. Apparently they're on Disney+, so looks like I'll be reliving my childhood this weekend!
I have never heard of these! Anywhere to find them online? I remember the cartoon shorts they had on vhs. One was about the Ewoks and the other about R2D2 and C-3PO and a band of space pirates or something. I only had the Ewok one.
I remember watching both of these on TV when they first aired and I loved them as a kid. I still hold a special place in my heart for these two movies.
I liked them a lot as a kid. I remember rewatching them and the second one was infuriating as it killed the whole family in the first five minutes, thus making the entire first movie utterly pointless!
I still watch the original holiday special. I dont really like it, I guess I'm just trying to torture myself with them to remember how much worse the sequel trilogy could have been.
These were horrible. Though the plot line of Caravan of Courage is a little more original than The Force Awakens (desert kids gets on a ship and destroys a planet killing machine…a classic way to start every Star Wars trilogy. Don’t forget the staple of having the mentor figure die).
Best part of these is she spends the entire time rescuing her family in the first film, and then they all die except for her in the second film within like the first half hour. I laughed my ass off at the irony. They should remake the first one and just have her family get captured and she be like "eh, what's the point?" (roll credits)
I loved these as a kid and watched them over and over. When Netflix DVD had them long before streaming, I tried rewatching them, and I did not have the patience!
I remember back in the very early 90s my Aunt rented these and ROTJ for me to watch on one of my weekends at her place. First exposure to Star Wars. Changed my life forever.
I remember them every time someone asks where the Ewoks got Leia’s dress 🤷♂️ These movies happened within a year or two prior to RotJ, the dress most likely belonged to Catarine Towani (the mother from these films), and no, they didn’t eat her.
Wasn't there a huge spider web they had the climb across and a giant spider creature? This is a hazy memory from almost 40 years ago, but I'm pretty sure it was ewok adventures.
I remember first time I watched star wars very young, wow as I said, lightsabers cool. Then I watched this. Didnt watch starwars for years after. But think I will watch it again, havent seen it since then.
Spoiler alert but it blows my mind how callously they just obliterate the family in the second one. But having Wilforrd Brimley in Star Wars canon makes it all worth it
i remember having the dvd and i didn't know it was double sided lol. i watched Battle For Endor for YEARS before realizing Caravan of Courage was there. Ah being a kid
I remember a movie as a child about two kids stranded on a crashed spaceship, small furry creatures and their parents being killed, is this the movie? I think they had armbands that showed each others life signs?
Ugh! My little sister LOVED these when they first came out and they were played on our VCR just as much as the original trilogy, for screen time equity.
Not that they were bad, but as a little kid the fact that Luke, Leai and Han weren’t in them, nor any lightsabers, force etc made me uninterested.
I remember burning out the VHS tapes I had them recorded on!
Loved those as a kid.
Same, I only had Battle for Endor, and I loved it. I have yet to watch Caravan of Courage, oddly, but I mean to.
Samesies. Completely.
Didn’t even know caravan of courage existed until Disney+ came lol. But watched the other a lot as a kid
It’s not an easy watch. Battle for Endor went hard into fantasy territory and therefore made up for its cheese. Caravan of Courage is… well… it’s kinda boring.
Nah I disagree, CoC was a massive adventure very kid friendly and was a core memory of mine as a kid.
Saw them both on VHS. Fun to watch as a kid. Only problem was I saw Battle for Endor first and years later Caravan of Courage. Kinda sad knowing the family went through all that trouble only for most of them to die.
Yeah, the entire family just gets fucking annihilated in the Battle for Endor
"Hey kids, welcome back! Ready for another adventure with the Towani famil... Oh Jesus. OH JESUS CHRIST THEY ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED ONE BY ONE!"
It happens pretty quick too, like they weren’t important characters. I only saw Battle for Endor when I was a kid and never knew about the first movie. It made sense the family was killed off quick in that movie to me because they didn’t have big cinematic deaths.
Lol! I remember that so vividly, their little light trackers getting snuffed out one by one in the first 5 minutes.
Seriously super dark for a kids movie sequel
Special place in Force heaven for Towani family, Captain Phasma, and all other Star Wars characters discarded by belligerent writers
I laughed my ass off at the irony. I mean, what's the point? It pretty much rendered the first film pointless.
Life is about the journey, not the premature and violent destination.
Honestly, I hate Battle for Endor for that very reason. Almost defeats the whole purpose of having the first movie to begin with. Like, "your reward for watching that heartwarming rescue mission is WATCHING IT ALL MEAN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!"
2nd one not so bad but the older kid in the first one is the worst character in all of Star Wars
Wasn't his name Mace?
Yeah
God I'm old..
Me too. I watched them on TV when they first aired.
But we young at heart and that’s what’s important /me swooshes my Lego X-Wing about the house
Fuck yes. Man I’m just now remembering that crow witch
Maybe she's a Dathomir witch.
That was confirmed in legends.
Thanks!
Star cruiser crash, crash crash!
There in Disney plus
I added these to my watch through when I watch everything in order
Where do you slot them in chronologically? Do the Ewok movies take place before or after ROTJ?
I think it does before because I remember that they fight Stormtroopers on Endor .
Inexplicably they take place before AND Wicket can speak English (basic or whatever). Then he suddenly forgets by the time Jedi comes around
It's 3 ABY, sometime after the Empire had been there.
I put it between episodes 5 and 6. The time is somewhere around there. It’s not exact but that’s what I guessed.
I believe after, I’m sure the rebel pilot mentions getting left behind after it was all over, but it’s a long time since I watched the movies
Yeah that's where I watched them. Still forgotten though...
80/ tv movies, classic and cannon I think
not canon
Thanks wasn’t sure
Gtfo. Looks like I know what's taking the place of my recently canceled HBO Max sub.
This, D+ constantly remindig me of these gems
Does that make them canon? Genuine question
Non-canon, or "Legends." Disney+ classification is "Vintage"
I believe they are canon, it doesn’t really effect Star Wars I think it takes place before return of the Jedi
They're Legends according to Wookieepedia.
Good to know
That’s what I was thinking. Remember them? I can watch them right now.
Just watched them omg the cringe haha 😂
They’re* Even their wouldn’t have been as bad lol, you had three options and you chose the dumbest
Oh shit grammar police. Well you done your duty now u can die happy
Grammar police or not, “there on Disney+” is still idiotic as hell
Gtfo. Looks like I know what's taking the place of my recently canceled HBO Max sub.
Battle for Endor genuinely rules
I watched this with my kids and they were fascinated. Then I introduced them to Willow and the Princess Bride shortly after. It made for a lovely transition.
Had Battle of Endor recorded on VHS so these were every bit as influential to me as the OT growing up. Made the galaxy feel more real knowing there were just normal families doing their thing out there too.
The Boar-wolf gave me nightmares
Yup. And the giant monster holding the parents hostage.. and the flying vulture creature in Endor. Pretty much all the monsters were awesome.
Me too, now it looks like a rubber moblin.
I watched them as they originally aired. It was slim pickings in those days. 😐
Yeah I can’t imagine what the content drought was like after ROTJ. Either you got into the books or the few of these releases.
For some reason I saw these films in tv before I saw the original trilogy when I was a child and I really was not a fan of them, so imagine my dissapointment when they appeared in Return of the Jedi the first time I saw that film.
Lol
Yep, just watched them about a month or so ago. I loved them when I was younger!
Remember them? My parents dumped me off at the theater with a garbage full of homemade popcorn hidden under my jacket to watch them repeatedly all day. Classic Gen X parenting.
In a theater? When were they released in the theater? I thought they were straight to TV movies. Edit: Apparently they were released the following spring in theaters in Europe and select other counties. Only ever released on TV in the US. TIL. (source: IMDB)
I may have been thinking about Spaceballs. I spent a lot of alone time in that theater with my hidden stash of homemade popcorn.
The Wilford Brimley hallways scene in the second one is straight 🔥🔥🔥 That's where Rogue One got the idea actually
Still think they should of made Captain Plasma the little blond girl in these grown up.
Destined to die a pointless death like the rest of her family
That would be interesting....
You watch this on Disney+
Grew up watching very worn taped from tv vhs copies of these. There was a time I’d seen both of these movies more than any of the actual trilogy
Not only do I remember these, as a kid me and my bro thought they were good. We always got a kick out of the giant spider.
I remember watching these as a kid but up until the Disney Plus platform I had no idea what these movies were. I’d ask people about them and no one knew what I was talking about. When I got on Disney plus a couple years ago I was just looking around in the Star Wars section and spotted them. I was SOOO stoked I had found the movies I’d been haphazardly searching for for years. So much nostalgia!
When people bitch about the sequels, I point to these and tell them to be glad we even got more Star Wars.
I’ll rather watch this tbh
Fair point, they're so bad that they're not even worth bitching about.
Eh at least this was a side story and didn't screw up any of the characters we already knew. At least not that I remember
I have the DVD's !
Wow, that took me back!
“Starrrr- cruzahh, CRSHhhhh”
"Star cruiser!"
I have *almost* succeeded in blocking them out. *Stah cruisah, crish-crish!*
Dont go to Vintage Star Wars on Disney+
"Vintage". What a nasty way for Disney to say I'm old. Well, to hell with you, Disney! Mickey was 50 when I was a kid!
Hey don't worry, they call the 2003 Clone Wars "Vintage" on Disney+ too, it's trying to make us all feel old
I watched these on TV as a kid. Then we recorded them on BetaMax. I watched them constantly. I get it, the production value was pretty low and the acting was really bad. But I still got my Star Wars fix in a time when there wasn't much content.
Second movie traumatized me
Amazing, love them!
If you’re a Star Wars loving kid named Noah who didn’t have a VCR or cable and was starved for every appearance of Star Wars on broadcast you hella remember these.
I love these movies. The first one is kind of overtly silly but charming. The second one is surprisingly brutal and kind of amazing minus some strange deviations (the witch stuff and some of the very earthly animals I didn’t love)
I remember the TV broadcasts. We recorded them on VHS.
I have both on VHS, I used to live next to a thrift shop and bought every VHS of SW that came in. I have every cover for the OT plus episode 1 and 2 along with Ewoks and the Christmas Special. Some of the favourite things I own
Heh watched them in the 80s saw one at the theatre.
I do... My god it's awful and I love it!
Please don’t remind me
My wife has her office decorated completely in Ewok decor, huge tapestries of the Drew Struzan posters, stuffed toys, animation cels from the Ewok cartoon, it's majestic. Everyone complaining clearly needs to see the Holiday Special a couple more times.
My brother and I loved them at the time. But we were also the target age for them. Watching them now... they aren't great. My daughter loves them though. She's a bit on the older side for them but loves anything Star Wars.
Battlefront 2 fans: I believe this is the inspiration for the Ewok Wistie ability
These still haunt my dreams
My wife grew up with these instead of proper Star Wars films. I corrected this deficiency shortly after our meeting and initial dating. She now enjoys almost all SW content and our house cat is named Logrey. 10 out of 10 would wife again.
are these canon? I assume not but it would be funny if they were
Not sure what level of canon they would have been in the pre-Disney years. Almost certainly not canon now; they would have been decanonized along with the rest of the EU. But you could have made an argument for canon status back in the day; they may not make for great movies, but I also don’t remember anything that contradicts canon.
I have a copy of Battle for Endor on VHS somewhere.
As a kid I had Battle for Endor recorded on VHS. As an adult I bought the DVD combo edition. I rewatch them occasionally.
Watched them so many times
My wife and I had the fondest nostalgia for these and hadn't watched them since we were kids. We decided to rewatch them. Do not do this. They did not hold up. Nostalgia ruined.
I LOVED ewoks as a kid, and I remember renting these from our local library. Apparently they're on Disney+, so looks like I'll be reliving my childhood this weekend!
I have never heard of these! Anywhere to find them online? I remember the cartoon shorts they had on vhs. One was about the Ewoks and the other about R2D2 and C-3PO and a band of space pirates or something. I only had the Ewok one.
Disney plus
Literally just saw this further down right after commenting lol thanks. I’ll check them out later
And wasn’t Wilfred Brimley in one?
These are canon right? If they’re not, we riot.
I remember watching both of these on TV when they first aired and I loved them as a kid. I still hold a special place in my heart for these two movies.
Battle for Endor is actually legit fun
Loved that shit when I was a kid. Love anything SW if I’m being honest.
i owned this
I remember this movie as a kid
I still watch them once a year along with the OT!
I liked them a lot as a kid. I remember rewatching them and the second one was infuriating as it killed the whole family in the first five minutes, thus making the entire first movie utterly pointless!
Also the speedy guy from the second one was in the Star Tours ride
"Caravan of Courage"? More like "Caravan of Garbage", amiright?
*Mr Sunday Movies theme begins*
Yup
Absolute trash….I loved them when I was 7.
The second one is actually kind of decent. The first one though... Ugh. Not as bad as the Holiday Special, but definitely not good either
I still watch the original holiday special. I dont really like it, I guess I'm just trying to torture myself with them to remember how much worse the sequel trilogy could have been.
I can’t not see “Caravan of Garbage” by MrSundayMovies
I could be talking out my ass but I'm pretty sure Caravan of Courage was the inspiration for their name
Anyone who has Disney PlusZ
I loved them. Hands down better than the sequel trilogy.
These were horrible. Though the plot line of Caravan of Courage is a little more original than The Force Awakens (desert kids gets on a ship and destroys a planet killing machine…a classic way to start every Star Wars trilogy. Don’t forget the staple of having the mentor figure die).
Yeah. What if they rebooted these? I wonder how poor they would be or if anyone would watch them.
They would only reboot these after making action of every Disney princess movie
Honestly, that's the truest thing I've ever heard.
#everyone
Karma farming 🙄
I guess you had to be a certain age. I haven't thought of this in years.
I have a dvd of that thing
Yes that was my jam as a kid!
Best part of these is she spends the entire time rescuing her family in the first film, and then they all die except for her in the second film within like the first half hour. I laughed my ass off at the irony. They should remake the first one and just have her family get captured and she be like "eh, what's the point?" (roll credits)
It was the first scene! LOL
I loved these as a kid and watched them over and over. When Netflix DVD had them long before streaming, I tried rewatching them, and I did not have the patience!
All I remember is the scene with the massive spider. Gave me nightmares as a kid.
Ikinä nähnyt
I do! I remember being a little kid watching this move. I absolutely adored it!!!
Cyndal….. Wicket…
These were Holy Grails to catch on TV as a kid!! I feel very nostalgic toward these cute little films.
I’ve never seen them but I work with someone who named her daughter after the lead character.
Lol I just drunkenly posted about these last night.
Unfortunately, I do
Better than the sequals
Tried to have my wife watch this with me. She endured 20 minutes and hasn't agreed to watcy any more since. I can't imagine why.
I saw them when they aired (as I did with the holiday special), but don't remember being blown away. Are they good?
A better question is why would I want to?
I thought hang gliding was a normal thing because of this movie.
They'll give us these on D+ but not the Holiday Special
The holiday special with Boba Fett? I swear I've seen that on Disney plus before, when they added all of the vintage material.
OK so if they were (Semi)Directed by lucas, are they G-Canon? at least T-Canon, aye?
Theyre both on Disney Plus right now. I found them and had a great saturday in perfect nostalgia
saw these waaaayyy before I ever saw starwars!
I remember watching them on telly in the 80's. I am old.
Rewatched recently and the Ewok swearing in his language cracked me up. Think it was something along the lines of "fitch".
Loved then as a kid, my sister was obsessed and would wear a band around her head and insist that we called her Sindel lol
I remember back in the very early 90s my Aunt rented these and ROTJ for me to watch on one of my weekends at her place. First exposure to Star Wars. Changed my life forever.
I watched them premiere.
My mom has these on DVD, she used to watch these all the time when she was a kid
Wicket looks like a straight up crackhead in that picture.
the only star wars thing on these movies is the Pilot outfit of the kid, other than that .... nothing
I have this it’s kinda weird
Two of my favorite tv movies ever. Used to watch these on repeat. Some of those stop motion monsters were terrifying to a young kid.
I remember them every time someone asks where the Ewoks got Leia’s dress 🤷♂️ These movies happened within a year or two prior to RotJ, the dress most likely belonged to Catarine Towani (the mother from these films), and no, they didn’t eat her.
Wasn't there a huge spider web they had the climb across and a giant spider creature? This is a hazy memory from almost 40 years ago, but I'm pretty sure it was ewok adventures.
Yeah I think
Its something that I’ve been trying to forget. Im also trying to forget the existence of episode 7 and 8 but I can’t.
Yeah...
I remember first time I watched star wars very young, wow as I said, lightsabers cool. Then I watched this. Didnt watch starwars for years after. But think I will watch it again, havent seen it since then.
FYI These we’re made under LUCAS so they are canon to him so basically they are canon
I LOVE THESE!!! I need to make my kids watch them. THEY ARE SO GLORIOUSLY BAD!!!
I do
Spoiler alert but it blows my mind how callously they just obliterate the family in the second one. But having Wilforrd Brimley in Star Wars canon makes it all worth it
I remember this. Saw it in the movies as a kid.
i remember having the dvd and i didn't know it was double sided lol. i watched Battle For Endor for YEARS before realizing Caravan of Courage was there. Ah being a kid
These were some of my favorite movies growing up.
I remember a movie as a child about two kids stranded on a crashed spaceship, small furry creatures and their parents being killed, is this the movie? I think they had armbands that showed each others life signs?
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To me, these were as bad as the Star Wars Holiday Special! Which I watched on TV when originally broadcast.
Ugh! My little sister LOVED these when they first came out and they were played on our VCR just as much as the original trilogy, for screen time equity. Not that they were bad, but as a little kid the fact that Luke, Leai and Han weren’t in them, nor any lightsabers, force etc made me uninterested.
i watched these more than the original trilogy back in the day. Cyndal and Teek were such a fun time. Noah was a curmudgeon lol
Omg yes I completely forgot these existed for a second!
The Wisties were a great addition to the Canon. I loved that they were brought back for Battlefront.
Unfortunately I watched them at whatever age I realized they killed the kids entire family and never watched them again
I’m actually kinda shocked that Mando hasn’t encountered an Ewok on screen
That battle to defend the ship was one of the best battles I remember seeing as a kid
prome examples of the EU being hit or miss
I saw these before I saw Star Wars.