There isn't a single major character in the film who is engaging.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2018

If it evaporates from memory with the airiness of a bubble bath, at least it leaves a friendly glow and a sense of a magical world lovingly evoked.

| Dec 6, 2018

Willow is not without its charms -- the effects are more than special, the set-pieces suitably epic -- but it just doesn't fulfill the promise of certain other fantasy films.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2018

It takes forever for the story to get started, and once it does it holds few surprises.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2018

Willow exchanges the high-tech gleam of the Star Wars universe for the low-tech look of a Tolkienesque world, but otherwise it's business as usual.

| Dec 6, 2018

At the heart of this overproduced jumble you can still hear the faint beat of the simple story Lucas conceived about 15 years ago while researching Star Wars.

| Dec 6, 2018

Willow is medieval mishmash from George Lucas, a sort of 10th-century Star Wars tossed together with a plethora of elements taken from numerous classic fables.

| Jul 9, 2014

Built on fantasy stereotypes, it nonetheless contains enough epic action, narrative momentum and spit-and-sawdust pre-CGI special effects to hold the attention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2006

[Willow] doesn't have the perfect pitch of ''Star Wars''; much of the time, it seems slightly askew.

| May 20, 2003

The big budget can't conceal the fact that this fiction is fallow, more rootbound than spellbound.

| Jan 1, 2000

Though children will mostly be enthralled by the spectacles, even they might notice the weak story protruding through the industrial magic.

| Jan 1, 2000

At the story level, Willow is turgid and relentlessly predictable.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

For easy-to-please five-year-olds of all ages.

| May 20, 1988