'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' review: The kids are all flight

'Whoa, talk about paranoid... even Jabba's Palace only had ONE of you TT-8L/Y7 gatekeeper thingies.' Photos: Handout

Cautious optimism is the best one can muster nowadays when it comes to new Star Wars projects. Having viewed the early episode of Skeleton Crew, I'm about ready to dump the "cautious" bit solely on the strength of nostalgia – not so much for Star Wars but for that beloved staple of 1980s cinema, the kids/teens/tweens adventure yarn.

From E.T. to Joe Dante's Explorers to Nick Castle's The Last Starfighter to Richard Donner's The Goonies and all points in between to the least fantastical but arguably the best, Stand By Me, such films have left indelible marks on many a filmgoer's imagination, heart and soul.