- Title: The Mandalorian and Grogu
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This? This is the way? The Mandalorian and Grogu completes the journey to undo all the character development from the show’s First Season. The Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu are still together flying the friendly skies as bounty hunters. Despite learning he was raised in a cult and its okay to remove your helmet Din Djarin has firmly fallen back into that brainwashing, Grogu has chosen family over Jedi training, and now we’ve even given the pair their old ship back because why not recon the Season One finale and pretend the final two seasons of the show and The Book of Boba Fett never happened?
It what very much feels like three episodes of the series stitched together, and not necessarily important episodes, after completing one assignment for the New Republic, in exchange for a new ship, the Mandalorian accepts a job working for the Hutts who want their nephew returned to Nul Hutta (despite the fact that simply leaving him in place and not involving the Mandalorian would have served their purposes). And finding Rotta (Jeremy Allen White), however, every choice the Mandalorian makes puts the Hutt, Grogu, and himself in more danger.
As with the show, the movie uses connective tissue to pull in various other Star Wars characters including pulling in Rotta and the bounty hunter Embo from The Clone Wars and Garazeb Orrelios (Steve Blum) from Star Wars Rebels. The results this time are mixed with Mando’s sometimes partnership with Zeb never truly explained or fleshed out. In terms of new touches, the most notable piece of the movie’s design is to notably darken our hero’s armor slightly for no practical purpose other than to try and make him look cooler in all the low-lit scenes.
Filled with lots and lots of CGI monster fighting, and some admittedly adorable moments of Grogu working with the group of Anzellans, The Mandalorian and Grogu feels very much like a TV-movie, and, honestly, not an all-that-special one as we’ve certainly seen stronger stories from the series which would have been more impressive on the big screen. Is is worth seeing for fans? Sure, but, like Solo, it’s nothing you would regret missing or ultimately have a lasting effect on any of these characters.
