Here's something I thought of posting a few places, my "May The Fourth" tradition has been to watch the infamous made-for-TV Ewok movies. What puts it on the radar here is that the second of them, The Battle For Endor, does indeed have Wilford Brimley, in a role that seems to have been written as Gruff and Cute. He can be counted as one of the things that makes the material marginally watchable.
What really made me want to post about this is the villains of Battle For Endor, which somehow offers one of the most detailed explorations I have seen of what I call the "space barbarian" scenario, a spacefaring species that simply stole their tech. This has come up as an explanation of how the Thing arrived on Earth, and it has been a recurring trope in Star Trek. What's noteworthy is that the raiders here show many limitations that never apply to any version of the Thing. They seem to have a marginal grasp of how to build or maintain small arms and other small and relatively simple technology, but they are explicitly incapable of repairing the starship they flew to the planet even with parts of a working craft. There is no further explanation of a castle they use as a headquarters, which seems to be within their grasp to build and certainly doesn't appear to be made by or for the Ewoks. Most strikingly, their leader has a habit of simply commanding machinery he obtains to do what he wants in the manner of an animistic ritual (maybe influenced by observation of droids at work). All of which is to say that this movie managed to raise implications vastly more interesting than itself. So, take it or leave it.