STAR WARS: Mandalorian & Grogu Review!

This week, I've seen The Mandalorian and Grogu twice back to back, and I wanna talk about it.

Let me just say right up front, in a, um, one to 10 scale review, I'm gonna give The Mandalorian and Grogu a seven and a half.

I was fully entertained.

It was exactly what I was expecting, because Star Wars will now forever be a victim of expectations, and that's very unfortunate.

Uh, it held up on a second view in less than 24, uh, hours, and I look forward to watching this film again.

Now, there are a lot of criticisms and commentary around the fact that this film doesn't move forward, uh, the characters.

I disagree with that.

I'll explain why.

Doesn't add anything to the mythology, and that's true.

If that was your expectation, you're going to be disappointed.

I will argue that it did not have to go and add anything to the mythology.

This was always intended to be, I think that's pretty clear, a one-off Star Wars adventure.

So if you haven't seen it yet, my guess is that if you, and I've heard other people make this comment as well, if you enjoyed The Mandalorian TV show, then you're gonna have a good time seeing The Mandalorian and Grogu on the big screen.

If you are going in with a lot of expectations that this needs to dramatically exceed the quality of the television show, then you're probably going to end up being disappointed.

If you're going into this thinking that you need to experience something on a level more so than what you would typically experience with your average filmgoing, you're gonna be disappointed.

This is not, and we don't live in a world right now wherein Star Wars carries that level of weight and expectation and excitement that we saw going back to, most recently, uh, The Force Awakens, um, Rogue One to a lesser extent, Solo to a lesser extent, but certainly the saga films of The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker.

Uh, this falls more in line with Solo, and it's probably going to perform very similar to Solo.

And this also reinforces my continued belief that for Star Wars to be this epic box office draw, it needs to stick to the formula that works, and that is the epic sodic, uh, the episodic nature of the Skywalker story-Where the galaxy is in peril and there are galactic stakes involved.

Uh, Solo was not the case.

Uh, and that's not the case with The Mandalorian and Grogu, and it wasn't meant to be.

Will this be the case for Star Wars: Starfighter? Maybe.

The rumors around that film are that the young protagonist in that...

And these are spoilers, but I'm gonna venture a guess that when we get to the place where we start seeing footage and teasers of Star Wars: Starfighter, th- we're gonna find this out.

So, and this is all, um, spoiler speculation.

I have no confirmation of this at all.