The new “Willow” TV series isn’t just a bloated, decidedly un-magical mimic of the 1988 movie. It also has no sense of who its target audience is or even should be.
, and it’s also not cartoony enough for kids. Its target audience seems to be tweens, which is outside its nostalgic sweet spot and leads to a bit too much corny comedy.
Still, it attempts to generate some roguish dynamism courtesy of Boorman , a thief and faux-scoundrel who serves as the action’s de facto replacement—in terms of spirit, if not narrative function—for, whose medical difficulties prevented him from reprising his role as the swashbuckling Madmartigan.
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