You know how the Star Trek movies at least tried to make it be more cinematic and do more, crazier, and important things compared to the TV show?
This doesn’t.
The Mandalorian and Grogu movie was indeed two-three episodes stitched together. I was hoping the critics and those who saw the movie before me were kidding, but no, they were right. There wasn’t even an overarching theme to the story. It was just three stories happening back to back, not even concurrently.
But the puppetry and art was cool, they even had stop motion animation. It was indeed lots of cool scenes in the movie.
Music was great too.
The live action cinematography was really bad though, felt like it was directed by George Lucas with how many bland shot reverse shots there were. Every scene with Sigourney looked awful.
In all, the story didn't have much going on at all. Even bad Star Wars movies like Rise of Skywalker and Attack of the Clones had stuff going on, even if I didn’t like and actively hated those things. But this movie actively lacked…well, a story. It had a premise (which was not interesting enough to even be a memorable episode, let alone a movie you pay a ticket for), and I liked the Rotta the Hutt character in principle, but there was absolutely no character work going on in this movie.
Everyone was an action figure that didn’t change at all from the beginning to the end. I was thinking that maybe they were setting up some interesting twists with Sigourney being upset that Rotta was saved, or that they were going to do anything at all with Grogu, but nah.
I think kids would like it. It’s a good movie for kids, I think, assuming they don’t get bored. The show itself is cool, but I think one should expect more for something you have to buy a ticket for.