★★★★ Weird but true: a movie that was a moderate success 34 years ago today is quite a luxurious and beautiful series. Willow was an attempt to do “something similar” to The Lord of the Rings (an epic war in a world of magic with all kinds of characters and species) and it worked well (in fact, it made Val Kilmer a star) but it was left as a minor classic of the 80s. With Warwick Davis once again as the dwarf-wizard Willow (he had starred in the original when he was only 17 years old), the series is presented as an adventure novel with magic, as an extended fairy tale that does not care. there is no humor or and it is presented as a choral adventure comedy where magic is more an excuse than an absolute essence. Very well filmed and dynamic (in this genre, which always tends to be too expository, that is appreciated), it is almost a surprise.
