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'LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures - Complete Season One' Blu-ray Review: Everything is awesome in a galaxy far, far away
January 3, 2017Ben MK
FEATURE: A Star Wars movie need not focus on the adventure of a Skywalker to be entertaining. Case in point: Rogue One, or, to provide an example from the small screen, Disney XD's LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, which is but the latest TV series to continue the franchise's exploration of other parts of a galaxy far, far away. Set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, The Freemaker Adventures follows 12-year-old Rowan Freemaker (Nicolas Cantu) and his older siblings, Kordi and Zander (Vanessa Lengies and Eugene Byrd), who — together with their trusty, reprogrammed battle droid, R0-GR (Matthew Wood) — run a salvage and repair shop aboard a space station called the Wheel. When Rowan meets a Jedi named Naare (Grey DeLisle), however, the Freemakers become embroiled in a quest to retrieve the fragments of the long-lost Kyber lightsaber — the most powerful weapon of its kind — before it falls into the clutches of the evil Emperor Palpatine. Season one of The Freemaker Adventures unfolds across thirteen 23-minute episodes:
The result makes for a fine addition to the Star Wars franchise, and that holds doubly true for younger viewers, who will find the show's lighter take on the familiar Star Wars formula to be quite appealing indeed. As for older Star Wars fans, they may still prefer a less immature series, like Star Wars: Rebels; however, that's not to say that The Freemaker Adventures isn't worth a watch, if only for the fan service it delivers. AUDIO & VISUALS: Season one of LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures arrives on Blu-ray with a vibrant 1080p transfer. And even though the image doesn't possess the same degree of three-dimensional depth as some computer-animated films, this doesn't appear to be a fault of the transfer itself, which is otherwise plenty crisp, clear and bursting with colors, from the red and blue glow of lightsabers to the bright yellow paint job on a Naboo N-1 Starfighter. As for the show's lossy audio mix, there's definitely room for improvement here. Still, the episodes' Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks do an adequate job of conveying the show's galaxy of sound effects, from TIE Fighter and X-Wing thrusters, to pod racer engines, to the thunderous footsteps of an approachng AT-AT. EXTRAS: Disney's two-disc Blu-ray release includes the following Blu-ray extras:
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures - Complete Season Two is available from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment as of December 6th, 2016. The Blu-ray features English Dolby Digital Audio 5.1, French Dolby Digital 2.0 and Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 tracks. The film is presented with English, English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles. The total runtime is 4 Hrs. 59 Mins. |
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