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Published on 5/25/2026
Written by: Braylon Mitchell
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Cast: Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver, Jeremy Allen White, Martin Scorsese, etc.
Plot: Once a lone bounty hunter, Mandalorian Din Djarin and his apprentice Grogu embark on an exciting new Star Wars adventure.
REVIEW
I really enjoyed Season One of "The Mandalorian" series, especially back in 2019 when it first released alongside the launch of Disney+ and became week by week appointment television as the first Star Wars TV series. Season Two of "The Mandalorian" was even better in terms of writing and had a killer season finale. Season Three? I watched the first few episodes and had no desire whatsoever to watch the rest of the season. By 2023, not only had the conclusion of the previous season been reversed in a separate Star Wars show that I didn't bother watching- the Star Wars franchise itself had been milked harder than the farm's only cow with Disney churning out Star Wars shows so often that they no longer felt special or like an event. Emmy-winning show "Andor" being an exception, of course; that's one of the best written and directed television shows of the past decade. Anyways, this is the first Star Wars film since "The Rise of Skywalker" released seven years ago and I don't know about you but to me its felt like there has been very little mainstream excitement for this film- especially after the dud that was "The Mandalorian" Season Three and the constant bombardment of Star Wars "content" at home. People have gotten so used to getting their Star Wars fix on their couch that nowadays when a non-Skywalker Star Wars film comes to theaters, there isn't much of a stir. Maybe things'll be different next year with "The Starfighter" because of Ryan Gosling's star power, but with "The Mandalorian and Grogu" I predict it'll have a modest box office run (modest by Disney standards) then be completely forgotten by audiences in three weeks tops. To put it better, expect to see a lot of this film's merchandise on clearance this holiday season. Yes, it's fun to see the Star Wars universe on the big screen again and I'm all for one-off adventures but if that's what we're getting I'd much rather have a compelling story and plot stakes apart of the package. Especially as a continuation of the show, with this film we don't learn anything new about The Mandalorian or Baby Yoda (yes, I still call him Baby Yoda) as characters- there are no arcs throughout the film, no strong emotional wavelength to their father/son relationship, there's nothing. We simply see these characters again in action. Mando's looking cool and Baby Yoda's looking cute. That's it. Disney and this film's creators thought that just because all of the actual development and reason to care was established earlier in the first two seasons of the show that they didn't have put in the work. Again, that lack of character work could've passed if the film at least had a good story- instead, the plot feels like two TV episodes stitched together only differentiated from the show by bigger budget CGI. Two TV episodes that even in the show would've felt like filler, might I add. I would say that I don't know what Disney was thinking making this film, but that would be a lie because we all know what they were thinking- let me give you a hint: it's green and makes the world go round.
THREE BEST ELEMENTS
Ludwig Göransson's score. Göransson once again composes an awesome score, which is no surprise coming from a three time Academy Award winning composer ("Black Panther", "Oppenheimer", "Sinners") who is on a fast track to becoming the next John Williams or Hans Zimmer. The score's western influences are present, there are some cool techno elements, and all in all it has that Star Wars umph.
There's a stretch of the film with little to no dialogue that consists of Baby Yoda having to be independent in a jungle and that by far the most entertaining part of the film. A huge reason I'm a Star Wars fan is because of the world building, and this sequence had the best world building out of the film.
The production design. I really liked the design of the Hutt jungle/swamp planet, it's a detailed and well executed setting.
WORST ELEMENT
This feels like one big nothing burger of a film. No compelling plot, no particularly impressive visuals, no expansion of the Star Wars universe, no reason to care. There's nothing here for moviegoers and nothing here for Star Wars fans. This film isn't terrible, but it is completely forgettable.
RATING
4/10
You can skip it, buddy!
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