The Story of the Faithful Wookiee

1978

Action / Animation / Sci-Fi

5
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 586 586

Plot summary

Originally part of The Star Wars Holiday Special, this short follows Chewbacca searching for a cure to the virus that put his friends to sleep. He encounters an unexpected ally: bounty hunter Boba Fett.


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Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker
Harrison Ford as Han Solo
Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia Organa
James Earl Jones as Darth Vader
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83.54 MB
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23.976 fps
12 hr 9 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews 6 / 10

Yes, it could turn you invisible. In my opinion, that would only be an improvement

Chewie is behaving weirdly: he's tied up Han, and refusing to return to base. Luke and the two droids go to investigate.

This is the only part of the infamous Star Wars holiday special currently available on Disney Plus. While it's not something you need to rush out and watch, it's a perfectly fine way to pass nine minutes. The animation is clearly working off a TV budget, in no way as impressive as what Disney was delivering at the time, or what Studio Ghibli would deliver starting in '84, a mere six years later. Princess Leia, frustratingly not allowed on the adventure, looks perfectly fine but the other returning characters are all in the uncanny valley.

It does not have very much in the way of action, and the plot, though a decent mystery hook, doesn't really make it essential viewing. This is the first on screen appearance of Boba Fett, and his riding the mythosaur has gone from a kind of cool visual here to being extremely important in The Mandalorian.

I recommend this only to completeists. 6/10.

Reviewed by jonahhenrickson-58277 7 / 10

Watching it as a cartoon itself is way better than watching it with the entire holiday special in my opinion

I've seen the Holiday Special and I regret it ever since, but when I saw the title The Story of the Wookiee on Disney+, I wasn't sure how it's going turn out and I noticed it's the same cartoon as the one that was part of the special. Watching 9 mins of this recently is honestly better than how I watched it with an hour and a half of the entire holiday special on YouTube almost 7 years ago. The animation is not perfect by all means, but I'm pretty sure you get the idea on how it was made. On top of that, I feel like we wouldn't have had Boba Fett from movies and shows, nor even Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones, especially The Mandalorian series if it wasn't for Boba Fett's first appearance in The Story of the Faithful Wookiee, and don't get me wrong, those Star Wars works, including The Book of Boba Fett, are a lot better than The Story of the Faithful Wookiee, even if the cartoon is apart of the holiday special, and we still have that cartoon to thank for that.

I did rank this a 7/10 (in case you couldn't tell), but if anything, I wish I would have the option to rate this a 6.5/10 instead of either 6/10 or 7/10 because I feel like this cartoon is somewhere in between those numbers when it comes to IMDB star ratings, but that's just me.

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