It is time to rock on with a new band, step aside Dusty Jawas!, in "Tatooine Rhapsody"! The second entry is by Studio Colorido and Taku Kimura directs “Tatooine Rhapsody.” Kimura was assistant director on the anime series, A Place Further Than the Universe (2018). There is a trading of blaster fire, red and blue bolts, passing over fallen clone troopers that are super deformed (tiny and cartoony) and battle droids. A young Jedi Padawan with blue hair, Jay (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) runs through a tight corridor. Then, reaches the edge of a factory ledge. JGL is known for sci fi movies like Inception (2010), and voiced Slowen Lo in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). Blasterfire makes him fall, he drops his lightsaber which sparks in damage, when Jay is able to reach grasp it, the lights turn on. A large form in shadows approaches. Maybe yet another Jedi surviving the Purge is too much?, but Jay has survived like Kanan Jarrus.
Then, it shifts to a concert with a band rocking to an older Jay shouting “You are okay.” The concert is in a medium tented area with a few dozen fans. A few fans are tapping their toes, I’m lovin’ the Ithorian with his little dance!, the animation style is cartoony characters with the anime style. Jay introduces the band, Star Wavers, then the other members, on flaming rumble bass, is the Hutt with crazy hair, Gee (Bobby Moynihan). The SNL comedian and actor provided a voice in Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021) and also Orka in Star Wars: Resistance. The versatile cluster drums, a ring of drum pads including a few that are floating!, played by the three bodies of the one being named Lan (Marc Thompson). The actor has provided the English voice for characters in the anime series, Shaman King. Lan looks like a devil alien like the Devaronian, but he looks to me like the oni in Japanese folklore. Next is Kurti (Shelby Young), the droid K-344, playing the electrified dual guitar. Young is the voice of mini-Stay Pufts in Ghostbusters: Afterlife!, plus she voiced Princess Leia in Star WArs: Forces of Destiny (2017-2018).
Jay is about to introduce himself when there is feedback from the mic. Then, he introduces V-5 who works the electronic sounds. He kinda looks like a boom box with tiny arms. Jay tries to say his name, but then faces super deformed Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) and other bounty hunters. Morrison’s voice is of course perfectly Boba Fett, but here, he is cartoony so I wish there was another, more fun, voice. He blasts Jay’s guitar and then walks up to Gee. Boba Fett wants to bring him back to Jabba, Gee laughs, and then tells the band to rock. He sends out a burst of flame from his guitar that knocks Fett back, almost crowd surfing, while the others attack the bounty hunters. Fett blasts at them, Jay runs to a panel, he activates electrodes in the tent and it falls on Boba Fett flying with his jet pack. They take off in a boxy starship with four thrusters, the Rolling Gale, piloted by Kurti. The band is all down that they have never finished a set. There is a jolt from the back of the starship.
Gee is somehow stunned that Boba Fett is persistent. He may not know about Fett’s reputation since this may be after the Clone Wars. This younger Fett should be voiced by Daniel Logan. They of course are pursued by Fett in the Slave I, yeah Slave I, still the same ship flown by Jango Fett. Jay says the classic line just before the ship plunges from the sky! The Rolling Gale has crashed and Boba Fett blasts a panel that opens the large hatch of the ship. Fett tells Gee that he is marked for execution, Gee doesn’t want to join Jabba’s syndicate, but the bounty hunter drags out of the ship. Jay runs up and has his lightsaber. In the rain, Fett has drawn his blaster, and Jay’s lightsaber sparks. The band has to repair the ship and somehow rescue their band leader on Tatooine! This includes a trip to the Mos Espa Arena that was part of the podraces. Very fun, but it may not fit into the Star Wars canon, because that canon is not fun. I hope they make figures out of the characters. “Tatooine Sunset” shows a rockin’ universe, maybe DJ Rex will play their songs and we get more of their adventures!
Four Lightsabers out of Five!
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