We recently Rented these two movies from Alamo Drafthouse and I thought I’d give my thoughts on them. Before watching them, I was expecting something only slightly better than the Holiday Special, and the first part of Caravan of Courage confirmed some of these fears, but they ended up being decent kids movies which I would have loved fifteen or twenty years ago.
Caravan of Courage is definitely slow and hamstrung by a low budget, but it still works as a fantasy adventure, though perhaps not really in the Star Wars universe. I was surprisingly engaged by the characters, especially Mace.
The Battle for Endor opens with a genuinely shocking series of events, considering the kid-friendly nature of the movies. The editing is snappy and it really moves. They clearly had more money and apart from the fantasy elements that could have been taken out of Flash Gordon or a Power Rangers episode it feels like a small-scale companion to Return of the Jedi.