{"id":40709,"date":"2023-10-07T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40709"},"modified":"2023-10-06T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T21:22:54","slug":"lego-star-wars-terrifying-tales-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/07\/lego-star-wars-terrifying-tales-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I have never really been a big follower of the LEGO movie verse over the years, I\u2019ll admit. I loved \u201cLEGO Batman\u201d and \u201cThe LEGO Movie\u201d but that\u2019s as far as it\u2019s ever gone. LEGO and Star Wars have teamed up for a while to deliver prime kid content and this time they merge to offer up a Halloween themed movie that\u2019s great for the holiday but also good for the young Star Wars fan. \u201cStar Wars\u201d isn\u2019t exactly known for their spooky stories, but I think they do a very good job mixing their mythology with some horror themed elements. A lot of it proves to be actually quite clever.<\/p>\n

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Set after \u201cThe Rise of Skywalker,\u201d we meet up with (my favorite newest \u201cStar Wars\u201d hero) Poe Dameron (voiced by Jake Green) and BB-8 clearing the galaxy of First Order stragglers. But they take a hit and crash land on Mustafar, which is where a certain Darth Vader once roamed. Hoping to repair their ship, they discover that Vader\u2019s Castle is being renovated into a luxury getaway by Graballa the Hutt (Dana Snyder). Offering to have his young mechanic, Dean (Raphael Alejandro), fix Dameron\u2019s X-wing in exchange for an endorsement, Graballa and the gang discovers inside the seemingly abandoned structure still resides Vader\u2019s former servant, Vane\u00e9 (Tony Hale).<\/p>\n

The visitors inspire Vane\u00e9 to share three cautionary tales of dark Force users, one for each Star Wars trilogy. The first, and my favorite tale titled \u201cThe Lost Boy\u201d is a hilarious take on \u201cThe Lost Boys\u201d in where we learn how Ben Solo became associated with the Knights of Ren. This short is essentially \u201cThe Lost Boys\u201d but set to the tune of \u201cStar Wars\u201d with Ben being lured to the dark side by Knight Ren, who is a hilarious take on Keifer Sutherland\u2019s vampire villain David. Christian Slater does a bang up Sutherland impression, and the animators stage a lot of classic scenes from the movie, including the hanging from the bridge sequence.<\/p>\n

I loved it and canonical or not, it\u2019s great to see how Ben Solo became Kylo Ren. \u201cThe Dueling Monstrosities\u201d is a very funny look in to Darth Maul (the always great Sam Witwer) and General Grievous who are re-bricked into existence so they can search for the Saber of Scardont for their master Darth Sidious. There\u2019s a lot of good references to Maul\u2019s death in \u201cPhantom Menace,\u201d his adjustment to his robotic legs, his rivalry with Grievous, and there\u2019s even a pretty cool light saber fight between the pair of mechanical Sith lords. Finally \u201cThe Wookie\u2019s Paw\u201d (a take on the classic urban legend \u201cThe Monkey\u2019s Paw\u201d) is the old fashioned alternate tale centered on young Luke Skywalker who garners a Wookie\u2019s Paw from Watto.<\/p>\n

Wishing to get off of Tattoine to become the best fighter pilot in the galaxy, this inadvertently steers him to the darkside where he becomes Vader\u2019s apprentice, forcing him in to a new version of the Death Star run, this time with Ben Kenobi and Leia manning the X-Wings. \u201cTerrifying Tales\u201d is just a lot of fun, with clever twists on the classic \u201cStar Wars\u201d lore. While I\u2019m fairly certain none of it is canon, it derives some great scenarios for fans to chew on.<\/p>\n

Streaming Exclusively on Disney Plus.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have never really been a big follower of the LEGO movie verse over the years, I\u2019ll admit. I loved \u201cLEGO Batman\u201d and \u201cThe LEGO Movie\u201d but that\u2019s as far as it\u2019s ever gone. LEGO and Star Wars have teamed up for a while to deliver prime kid content and this time they merge to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[64,99,103,219,580,597,906,980],"class_list":["post-40709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-tv-tomb","tag-adaptation","tag-animation","tag-anthology","tag-comedy","tag-kids","tag-lego","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40711,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40709\/revisions\/40711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}