Ewoks are characters that people either love or hate with alot of people being really split on these characters. However back in the mid eighties kids loved them and as a result of that they were given there very own animated series and for a while the only piece of new Star Wars media that we got good or not featured the Ewoks in a starring role and well since it's been four long years since I last took a look at an episode from the classic Ewoks TV show I thought that it was about right that I take a look at episode two of this show and so then join me as I review the episode that introduces invisible soap into the world of Star Wars with the episode in question being called simply just "The Haunted Village" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is the Ewoks find themselves being under attack from all sides as they have to douse some trees in soap that turns you invisible to hide them from an evil witch while the Dulok steal it and use the soap to try and attack the Ewoks village it's up to Wicket to get the soap back before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as it was the kind of plot that you'd expect from a kids cartoon where the Ewoks are the main characters but at the same time tho given that this episodes writer was Paul Dini it's not that good of a plot either with this episodes plot also being really rather entertaining ad as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Melleny Brown as Urgah , Jackie Burroughs as Morag and George Buza as Chirpa. Also starring in this episode is Doug Chamberlain as Logray , Leanne Coppen as Nippet and Winda Warrick , Michael Fantini as Wiley , Don Francks as Umwak , Dan Hennessey as Gorneesh , Jim Henshaw as Wicket Wystri Warrick , Pam Hyatt as Bozzie , Eric Peterson as Teebo , John Stocker as Widdle Warrick , voice acting legend Cree Summer as Kneesaa A Jari Kintaka and Greg Swanson as Weechee Warrick.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Which given who is starring in this episode really isn't all that surprising as this episode is made up of a bunch of really good voice actors who we know for a fact can turn in some really good performances which is the case with this episode however what really does let the acting in this episode down is the fact that the episodes script really isn't that good as it's just your stereotypical kids cartoon script and it doesn't give the cast a whole lot to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are really even meant to be in the first place.
Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Nelvana , Cuckoo's Nest Studios and Wang Film Productions Company. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty alot better then what it really had any right to be as when you hear the words "Ewoks Cartoon" you don't really think of good or even great animation and yet we get some really good animation and while the animation really hasn't aged all that well it's also better then alot of the animated shows that were coming out at the time that this show was being made.
The episodes villains were rather rightfully ridiculous and over the top as they are villains in a kids cartoon. However given that Star Wars was also aimed at children and yet they still somehow managed to create scary and actually threatening villains it's shocking to see that this cartoon didn't do the exact same thing as they had more then enough star power behind the camera to make the episodes villains really scary and yet they don't at all instead they make them the kind of villains that you'd always see in a childrens TV show with this not really being helped by the fact that the episodes villains don't really have much of a personality this is despite them having a clear end goal of wanting to get rid of the Ewoks there's nothing personality wise to set all of these villains and such any one of them really could be the ones that are saying things in this episode as alot of them really do look the exact same way as each other.
To this episodes credit it really does know exactly what it is and that's the fact that it's nothing more then a dumb kids cartoon. Which is so refreshing as to see as we see quite alot of shows that are trying to be something that there not and yet this episode knows exactly what it is and really isn't afraid to be nothing more then a dumb kids cartoon with everything about this episode being things that you'd see in a dumb kids cartoon without the typical moral lesson of the week that we used to see all of the time in eighties kids cartoon shows which is really what this episode is missing as it would be super funny and super cringy just seeing how they would try to teach kids a moral lesson but done in a Star Wars fashion but at the same time none of the Star Wars cartoon ever really did something like that and it would have seemed really out of place for this one episode to do it when the rest of the shows doesn't do it even once.
As this show is more focused on being a comedy you'd expect the jokes in this episode to be really good. Yet the jokes that are in this episode while they might have been funny back in nineteen eighty five there not really funny now with pretty much all of this episodes being really dated jokes and whilst there might be some people that will still find this show to be funny in order to be truly timeless the jokes have to be well written and times which is sadly not the case at all with this being the result of the back of the episodes script just isn't that good and when you have Paul Dini the co-creator of Harley Quinn you'd expect there to be some really funny as we know thanks to Tiny Toon Adventures which he also wrote for you'd expect the jokes in this episode to be really painfully funny and yet the jokes in this episode will barely get a smile out of people as there just really not that funny at all with the episode not even having one good joke in the slightest.
Now then this episode has / had an grand total running time of exactly twenty four minuets and forty five seconds.Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show and to this episodes credit it really does make the must of that running time with there not really being any scene that needed to be cut and while I would have liked if the episode had more scenes just to flesh out it's plot and characters it would have been stretching this episodes already thin story to beyond breaking pint and as a result there would have been alot of scenes that add nothing to the overall plot of the episode and would have felt like padding and while even tho this episode really does have more then enough plot to cover this amount of running time it doesn't have enough plot to cover any longer then that but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in al honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also issue as while this episodes action really isn't all that good either none of this is the fault of the makers of the show as they have strict guidelines and strict budgets to stick to and as a result of this the action in this episode can't be as good as it could have been as the show has to stick to those TV guidelines and to those budgets which means that this episodes action is rather clunky and was the kind of action that you'd expect t find in a bad kids action cartoon series as it's just that bad in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this episode is both not as good as it could have been and not as bad as it really should have been either with this episode really giving you all the things that you'd expect to see in an Ewoks kids cartoon in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that really are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Star Wars fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being the great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are really from this episode and are of course really on Google Images are really all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.