Star Wars Visions Volume 2 · 4:03pm May 10th, 2023
Was busy, but I finally watched all of Star Wars Visions Volume 2. For a short review, this is just as good as the first volume, if slightly better, only because of the varied animation styles. But here's my short looks on each episode, with minor spoilers.
Sith: Pretty strong start with animation similar to Into the Spider-Verse and Puss in Boots 2. It's best to just see a Sith not necessarily become a Jedi persay, but just wants to do something that's indifferent and expressive.
Screecher's Reach: Spooky with an ending that may lead to something sinister. It's pretty fun to see what's essentially a ghost story play out.
In the Stars: bittersweet ending, though the little girl has pretty bad voice acting. May need to watch it in it's original language, but I enjoy the mix of stop motion and CGI
I am your mother: The most light hearted, and probably a good Mother's day watch. And if you look in the background, before the race begins, you can see the robot from Wallace and Gromit: A Grand day out in the background interacting with some droids.
Journey to the Dark Head: The most anime-like of the bunch, with some thought behind how the universe is always on repeat. Main sith has a funny name, and, maybe it's only in the English dub, but he could've stayed quiet in a few scenes and be much cooler that way.
The Spy Dancer: Historical context may be needed, but the ending does changes everything.
The Bandits of Golak: Even with the Hindu knowledge, this just looked like a scrapped episode of Star Wars Rebels. Kinda wish they had gone full Bollywood with this, something like RRR at least. The only real disappointment.
The Pit: Pretty heavy stuff that shows how cruel the Empire can truly be. Probably the one with the most obvious allegory of the bunch, but it ends with an uplifting look, and it's the only episode with an after credits scene.
Aau's Song: Very pleasant to the ears, cute looking race, and it ends this volume on a positive note. If my niece saw this and wanted an Aau plushie, I wouldn't mind.
So there are my thoughts on each episode of Volume 2. What did you guys think? Should a volume 3 be made? Personally, I hope so, and the theme should be real short films.
