Review: Three decades later, 'Willow' is back as a series and better than ever
Premiering this week on Disney+, whose corporate parent conveniently acquired the property in its ingestion of Lucasfilm, "Willow" is a series-long sequel to the 1988 fantasy film in which an aspiring sorcerer (Warwick Davis in the title role) from a race of little people sets off to deliver a human baby, found like Moses in the bulrushes, into responsible large-people care. There are a lot of opinions among genre fans as to how best to execute such stories, but the series is fantasy as I like it best — funny, fun and just a little frightening, sometimes serious but never self-serious. If my year-end favorites piece were not already filed, "Willow" would have been a contender.
It has been 34 years since the film was released, though in the timeline of the series,
