May 22, 2026

"The Mandalorian and Grogu" might just as well have been titled, "One Monster Battle After Another." In fact, the latter would have been more fitting because the movie, a bigger-budget adaptation of the "Mandalorian" TV series on Disney Plus (which many would agree declined in quality over the course of its three seasons) isn't really about the two titular characters. Rather, it presents a paper-thin, rudimentary plot that feels like a lame excuse to bring another "Star Wars" property to the big screen, and it reeks of being mailed in. At the end of it, I didn't really know what this story brought to the "SW" table other than filler.