A Look at Disney Vs. The Forces of Evil: Storm The Castle

Hello & welcome back to A Look at Disney Vs. The Forces of Evil. And today, we reach the final review in this event as we storm the castle.



Episode Title


Storm The Castle.




The title says everything that you need to know about it.  Star storms the Toffee's castle. Formerly Ludo's.



The Plot


The episode opens with the two on an adventure to get a sandwich that is a sleeping monster's hands. Star is able to successfully get the sandwich out of the monster's hands but the sandwich is destroyed and Star is annoyed at Marco for damaging the sandwich and Marco is annoyed at Star for her relentless behavior as it almost got theme killed.  Later that night, Star wakes up to try and find Marco ti apologize but she's find that he's missing.  Instead of Marco, she finds Ludo's fly monster in his room, who gives her a message to bring her wand to Ludo's castle.   Then we get a funny moment, where Mr. and Mrs. Diaz call the police and the policeman doesn't believe Star and just think that she likes magic.

 




Despite their insistence. Star decides to go alone to Ludo's castle as she feels that this is her fault. Meanwhile, we come across one of Ludo's monsters, Buff Frog.  Who was fried in Mewindepenence Day after  being set up by Toffee.  Ludo (who had been kicked out of his castle after a mutiny in the last episode before the finale) comes across Buff Frog with a bag of tadpoles to bribe Buff Frog for his help.  Star comes by and knocks them out before being told they had nothing to do with Marco's kidnapping.  It was all Toffee.  Star says that she has no idea, who this is but heads to the castle anyways.  There we see that Toffee has been keeping Marco trapped in a translucent box.  This is interesting because Toffee isn't cruel to Marco but he does stop every attempt of Marco's to escape.

Star makes it to the castle and despite advice from her adversary, she just fights off the monsters and lets out a huge blast to destroy the box, that Marco was trapped in. But this does nothing as Toffee is able to just trap Marco in another box.  And this box is twice as strong and cannot be destroyed by Star's magic. Left without options,  Star complies to Toffee's demands.  And gives him the wand but Toffee doesn't want the wand, he wants Star to destroy the wand.  Star agrees  to do this  and per the agreement, Toffee frees Marco and opens the box that Marco was trapped in but Star quickly gets in as the castle is obliterated.  The two sadly look down at the wand as it has been cracked in two and this seems to be setting up big things for season 2.   Back at Star's home,  she apologizes to her parents and here we learn that the wand can be fixed but only if none of the pieces have been left behind.  And the last shot, we get is of the broken shard from the wand.

This episode was intense and really set up everything for the second thing, wonderfully and I can't wait to see where season 2 takes the things that were set up here.





Main Characters



Star Butterfly voiced by Eden Sher

This episode showed how much of a badass, Star can be as she went into action and we got to see her in full on heroine mode and how she made the noble gesture of destroying her wand to save her friend was a great touch.  This episode really went to great lengths to show what Star would do for her loved ones.



Marco voiced by Adam McArthur

This episode like Kim Possible subverted the Damsel in Distress trope by having Marco be the one that was kidnapped and Star had to be the one to save him but the difference between Marco and Ron Stoppable is that Marco is no fool and while he was in a hopeless situation,  he did put up a decent fight against Toffee.   But in the end, it was null.




Villains

Buff Frog voiced  by  Fred Tatascorie

We've seen in previous episodes that there was more to Buff Frog, than just being a lackey for Ludo.  And here, we see that he can be a very loyal ally.  And while he was down in the dumps after being fired, we learn that he is smarter than Ludo ever gave him credit for.



Ludo voiced by Alan Tudyk

It's interesting to contrast Ludo and Toffee as he is such a comic relief villain.  Compared to Toffee, he is such a fool and that is how the show presents him.




Toffee voiced by Michael C. Hall

Toffee's first appearances were all leading up to this moment and man, did they deliver as we finally saw what Toffee had been after since the third episode.  Toffee proved to be one of the effective villains on a Disney show and perhaps one of the creepiest. Everything about his calm demeanor and how he rarely loses his cool was unsettling. Even moreso in the one moment, where he did become unhinged as that was unexpected from him but that is what made it so effective.




My Final Thoughts


This was a great way to close out the first season as it had been building up to this moment.   And everything in this finale truly delivered.  I cannot recommend this show enough. If you haven't checked it out, do yourself a favor and watch the first season as you will not be disappointed. Peace!