Director Jon Favreau–best known for Elf and Iron Man–delivers the first Star Wars movie in seven years. I found The Mandalorian and Grogu short on story and long on violence. Essentially, the movie lurches from fight scene to fight scene. Of course, Grogu (aka, “Baby Yoda”) steals every scene he’s in. Pablo Pascal plays The Mandalorian (with two other actors credited: Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder) under the helmet that supposed to never be removed. Sigourney Weaver, a leader in The New Republic, has about two minutes of dialogue in this two hour movie. And, inexplicably, the famous Martin Scorsese provides the voice of four-armed Ardennian shopkeeper Hugo. Go figure…
Jeremy Allen White voices Rotta the Hutt, the target of the deadly duo of The Hutt Twins, siblings and successors to deceased crime-lord Jabba the Hutt. The Twins promise to provide information to The Mandalorian but only in exchange for his rescuing Jabba’s son Rotta the Hutt from a criminal syndicate run by former Empire Lord Janu. The Mandalorian receives a new Razor Crest-ship as a pre-payment for this mission.
The AMC Theater was full of Star Wars fans–some in costume!–when Diane and I watched The Mandalorian and Grogu. But, on exiting, it seemed that most were as disappointed as we were. GRADE: B-
Sounds pretty bad.
Pass.
Jeff, the Star Wars fans in the audience were disappointed in THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU. Diane and I both agreed it was a dud.
“Starring Grogu as himself”–well, yeah. “Grogu” sounds like a name that Lee and Kirby would have used for one of their 1960 comic book monsters. Maybe that would have been a better movie. Star Wars will lumber on whatever the box office results.
Fred, plenty of STAR WARS fans love Grogu (aka, Baby Yoda). The best moments of THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGRU were the scenes with Grogu.
I’m not interested. I like original Star wars too much.
Maggie, apparently a lot of STAR WARS fans feel the way you do. The Box Office for THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU fell short of expectations.