That’s the position Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), one of Skeleton Crew’s endearing kid adventurers, finds himself in after years of immersing himself in picture books about the Jedi. Like Luke Skywalker,

The Phantom Menace came out, the dramatic backlash against its slapstick humor and precocious kid hero prompted George Lucas to argue that Star Wars was – and always had been – “for children.” He didn’t necessarily mean exclusively for children,

The story is as fun as it is simple, weaving together spacefaring pirates, planets with hidden treasure and nods to 1980s classics like “The Goonies.”