CaptainWacky
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It looks fun, of coure, but visually not really much different from the tv show...then again, the tv show was probably very expensive.
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Movies The Mandalorian and Grogu
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It looks fun, of coure, but visually not really much different from the tv show...then again, the tv show was probably very expensive.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
The gladiator Hutt is of course Jabba's son Rotta ("Stinky") and I'm sure @The Tomtrek would appreciate that.
CaptainWacky
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I would like to see the baby now.
CaptainWacky
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Why the fuck isn't it coming out on May 4th.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
It's probably because Devil Wears Prada 2 comes out around then.
CaptainWacky
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Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
CaptainWacky
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It's weird how they managed to find someone who looks like that and is named "Grogu" to play Grogu.
Eggs Mayonnaise
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I just wish he would blink twice if Jon Favreau is holding him inappropriately.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
CaptainWacky
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The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)
Spoilers if anyone cares.
It's a movie of two halves. (Or is it four episodes of the tv show stuck together, with really obvious end of episode cliffhangers and everything, rather than a movie? Maybe; I'll come back to that.) ANYWAY, at the start it's all...fine. It exists. Opening sequence doesn't really feel much above the level of the tv show, but it's fun enough. There's the usual clunky Filoni dialogue to get through, especially when Sigourney Weaver is on screen. Rotta the Hutt makes two very similar "I'm not like my father!" speeches within five minutes of each other. I wasn't sure about his voice at first either, and it remains a bit incongruous throughout. The stuff I enjoyed most in the first half was Rotta and Grogu becoming friends and some of their cute moments together. But, at this point it's not really blowing me away. I doubt the first 45 minutes would have been anyone's favourite episode of the tv show.
Things get better once Mando is captured by the Hutts. There's a few minutes where it's just Grogu and the Babu Friks that is a lot of fun. Even better - by far the best part of the movie, in fact - is when Mando is poisoned and Grogu has to look after him and find a cure. It's a long sequence without any dialogue (until an aligator alien shows up) and it rules. The movie EXTREMELY LIGHT on character work before this part, so it's good to have something that elicits emotion. Once Mando is better he and Grogu fight some stop-motion robots and that's cool too. I also enjoyed Rotta's fighting style with he flopped around. Star Wars is at its best when it gets weird and, thankfully, the second half the movie has some pleasingly weird stuff.
But yeah, if someone asked me if it's worth seeing in the cinema when you can just wait 90 days to watch it on Disney+ I'd say...probably not? Unless you just go to the cinema a lot anyway, then sure, you'll probably enjoy. But it doesn't feel like an event movie AT ALL. Just like Solo it really isn't special. I don't know if it even looks any better than the tv show. I suppose I could say it's nice to see things on a big screen where everything's bigger? But...you're not really missing out if you just wait for streaming. As I said above, there's some really obvious episode breaks, so if you wanted to divide your viewing into 3 or 4 parts or whatever to make it feel like a mini season of the show you could do that.
I smiled when the Twins said they only had an old photo of Rotta and it was him from the Clone Wars animated movie when he was Stinky the Hutt.
The part with the Republic bombing the Hutt fortress at the end feels really tacked on and pointless. I suppose they just wanted to show some Republic fighters doing something?
There's a couple of bits where I half thought Grogu was going to speak for the first time, but they still aren't willing to go that far with him. He gets some character development (he shows he's able to look after himself and is generally more competent than when he was just a comedy muppet) but it still feels like they're holding back.
Spoilers if anyone cares.
It's a movie of two halves. (Or is it four episodes of the tv show stuck together, with really obvious end of episode cliffhangers and everything, rather than a movie? Maybe; I'll come back to that.) ANYWAY, at the start it's all...fine. It exists. Opening sequence doesn't really feel much above the level of the tv show, but it's fun enough. There's the usual clunky Filoni dialogue to get through, especially when Sigourney Weaver is on screen. Rotta the Hutt makes two very similar "I'm not like my father!" speeches within five minutes of each other. I wasn't sure about his voice at first either, and it remains a bit incongruous throughout. The stuff I enjoyed most in the first half was Rotta and Grogu becoming friends and some of their cute moments together. But, at this point it's not really blowing me away. I doubt the first 45 minutes would have been anyone's favourite episode of the tv show.
Things get better once Mando is captured by the Hutts. There's a few minutes where it's just Grogu and the Babu Friks that is a lot of fun. Even better - by far the best part of the movie, in fact - is when Mando is poisoned and Grogu has to look after him and find a cure. It's a long sequence without any dialogue (until an aligator alien shows up) and it rules. The movie EXTREMELY LIGHT on character work before this part, so it's good to have something that elicits emotion. Once Mando is better he and Grogu fight some stop-motion robots and that's cool too. I also enjoyed Rotta's fighting style with he flopped around. Star Wars is at its best when it gets weird and, thankfully, the second half the movie has some pleasingly weird stuff.
But yeah, if someone asked me if it's worth seeing in the cinema when you can just wait 90 days to watch it on Disney+ I'd say...probably not? Unless you just go to the cinema a lot anyway, then sure, you'll probably enjoy. But it doesn't feel like an event movie AT ALL. Just like Solo it really isn't special. I don't know if it even looks any better than the tv show. I suppose I could say it's nice to see things on a big screen where everything's bigger? But...you're not really missing out if you just wait for streaming. As I said above, there's some really obvious episode breaks, so if you wanted to divide your viewing into 3 or 4 parts or whatever to make it feel like a mini season of the show you could do that.
I smiled when the Twins said they only had an old photo of Rotta and it was him from the Clone Wars animated movie when he was Stinky the Hutt.
The part with the Republic bombing the Hutt fortress at the end feels really tacked on and pointless. I suppose they just wanted to show some Republic fighters doing something?
There's a couple of bits where I half thought Grogu was going to speak for the first time, but they still aren't willing to go that far with him. He gets some character development (he shows he's able to look after himself and is generally more competent than when he was just a comedy muppet) but it still feels like they're holding back.
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