Speaker 1: It's been seven years since a new Star Wars movie
has been released in theaters, and the one of releasing
now was actually supposed to be season four of a
television show. It's The Mandalorian and Grogu. I'm Ronald Young Junior,
and I'm leaving the theater.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: This is Ronald and I am leaving the theater after
seeing Star Wars The Mandalorian and Grogu. Star Wars The
Mandalorian and Grogo written by John Favreau, Dave Feloni, and
Noah Klore, directed by John Favreau, starring Pedro Pascal, Jeremy
Allen White, Brendan Wayne, Latif Crowder, and Sigourney Weaver and
per usual. For complete listing of the cast and crew,
check out the link in our show notes. The Mandalorian
and gro Goo is the newest Star Wars film that
I think. This is the first Star Wars film that's
come out since twenty nineteen. The twenty nineteen being I
believe it was the Right of Skywalker was the last
one which was part of the original Skywalker saga of
Star Wars.
Speaker 3: Films.
Speaker 2: The reason why I'm pointing that out is because it's
been a while since we've had a Star Wars film
on television. The Mandalorian ran for three seasons twenty four
episodes on Disney Plus, and there was also a bit
of the Mandalorian story in the Book of Boba Fette
Star Wars TV series that was on Disney Plus. So
Star Wars had kind of been out of the movie
business for a little while, and this is them coming
back into it, or at least I thought it was,
I should say.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: It continues the adventures of the Mandalorian, who is Pedro
Pascal and Baby Yoda who is Grogu. I'm saying Baby
Yoda so that anyone who does not watch Star Wars
know exactly who Grogu is. There's also a connection to
Jabba the Hut and Jaba the Huts family. There's some
unfinished business there with the Huts. Rata the Hut is
played by Jeremy Allen White, and the plot of the
movie picks up with the Mandalorian being a bounty hunter
and working for the New Republic and trying to build
a better world since the Empire left it in shambles.
To be honest, I don't know if the plot of
the movie is that important not to say that there
isn't one, but it is to say that if you
are a Star Wars fan and you were looking forward
to seeing this, it's funny because now I have to
think about your entry point into Star Wars. If your
entry point into Star Wars is through the original trilogies
and you also picked up on the Mandalorian, then there's
probably nothing I could say, right or wrong that's going
to stop you from seeing this movie. And I think
you should. I think it's a I think it's a
it's a fine movie. I liked it for the most part,
but I do have some questions. I'm gonna go into
some questions and then i'll talk about the part that
I like. Pedro Pascal, when I was looking at the
credits for the film, has someone that is considered to
be the body performer for the Mandalorian because the majority
of the film he has a helmet on. There's only
a small section of this film in which he has
the helmet off, which sometimes I wonder if he considers
why he said yes to this. Granted, it means that
you're a part of the Star Wars universe. It builds
your bank account more, it builds out the lore of
Pedro Pascal, but this is a voice acting gig for him,
and him not so much an issue as it was
to see Jeremy Allen White, who was voicing the character
of Rata the Hut and Rata the Hut is a
completely animated character and the voice is modulated so it
doesn't even sound like Jeremy Alan White.
Speaker 3: So except for having his name attached.
Speaker 2: To this film, there was no real reason for Jeremy
Allen White to do this. Even more so, I'm looking
at Disney and saying, was there not a more popular
voice actor that you could have gotten to do this
that probably could have used the boost more than Jeremy
Allan White, Just someone that we all know, Like I
think about someone like we know like Phil Lamar, who's
a voice actor. Alex Borstein does a lot of voice acting.
There's and I'm just I'm throwing those names out there.
They might not even be the best one for this role.
But to me, it just seems silly to get an
actor known for their performances, their physical in person them
being their performances and get them to do a voice
role in a non animated movie. The character is ostensibly animated,
but the movie is a live action movie. Why would
you not want Jeremy Allen White in a live action role?
And I know some people are gonna be like, well,
maybe you just want to be part of Star Wars.
You just said it about Pedro Pascal. Well, I mean
Pedro Pascal. It's still a live action role, and it wasn't.
Until it makes me wonder if for three seasons, did
he have a body actor for the Mandalorian, because I
know I certainly would have negotiated for one if I
were him, because it's not going to cost him that
much more money to put an extra or a background
performer into the outfit in a mask and just have
me come do eighty hour later, because that's essentially what
you have him doing. So that felt a little bit confusing,
especially because you have Silgourney Weaver in this film who's
playing a live action role. But it made me wonder
if any of these actors were ever in the same
room with each other.
Speaker 3: I don't think that they were.
Speaker 2: And again, I know this is probably not something I
would consider if this was a fully animated movie, but
this isn't.
Speaker 3: It's a live action.
Speaker 2: Movie, and I have questions. It's just it felt like
for a moment there, especially for parts of the movie,
I felt kind of lonely. And when I say that,
it didn't feel like I was hanging out with my
friends or seeing a bunch of familiar faces like there
were some, of course, but it just feels set so
far out of the Star Wars timeline that I can't
get wrapped up in the universe that I'm in a
in a particular way where it's just like a I'm
trying to all the side stories of any of these
are kind of I'm drawing a blank on all of
them now. But the idea of me and being wrapped
up in a character that is not necessarily the characters
that I know, not the main cannon, but even something
like and Or, I never felt lonely watching and Or,
because there were all of these characters who were all
playing together, and they were weaving in and in and
out of each other's stories. There was just it, there
was more there, whereas with this it's it's Pedro Pascal
and Grogu or a body double of Pedro Pascal and
Grogu who is a puppet, you know, Like at some
point I remember thinking oh, there's there's nothing real in
this film. I wouldn't go as far as to say
it's like an AI film, but it's just parts of
it just felt to me very I just felt very distant,
very isolating, very uh. It felt separated. Now I would
watch it again because I mean, it's Jon Favreau, and
he knows what he's doing. He knows how to make
a crowd pleasing summer movie, and that's what this is.
As it goes along and as all the characters are
making their journey and they have to get to the
thing to grab the other thing to get make sure
they get the thing, and make sure they get this guy,
and this guy gets double crossed, and now we got
to go get our revenge, and oh no, they took
our guy. Now we gotta go get our guy. As
all that's happening, I was with it. I was enjoying it,
and I think there was a period in the middle
where I started thinking, oh, am I enjoying this, And
then it made another shift and there's just a little
bit more gro gu and it starts to feel better.
And by the time we get to the third act,
I realized that it's essentially the Mandalorian versus a bunch
of what I like to call meat, which is just.
Speaker 3: Bad dudes.
Speaker 2: He has to go up against a bunch of bad
dudes whose only purpose is to exist for him to shoot,
which is fine. That's fine for me. That's enough, I
would say. But it's not mine, and it doesn't really
justify its existence. The movie doesn't justify its existence. It's
just here, here's another Star Wars movie. It doesn't deepen
the plot, it doesn't deepen the lore. I don't know
what's next. I don't know if there's another season of
the Mandalorian. I don't know if they're going to do
another Mandalorian and grow Groove. I don't know if they're
going to do another Mandalorian and Grogu film. I think
it will be solely based on performance and not on
audience reaction or clamor for more Mandalorian and Grogu. It's
just going to come down to the numbers. If this
movie makes money, then yes they will make another one.
But if you're invested at all in the Star Wars
universe and want to see more world building and more
of them building out the law in the backstory, allow
what they do with and or this ain't that.
Speaker 3: This ain't that at all.
Speaker 2: With all of that being said, when I walked out
of that theater, it was a three and a half
star movie, And now that I've talked all of this out,
it is a three star movie. I would watch it again.
I would one hundred percent watch it again. I think
I ranked the third act a little higher than the
rest of the movie. But even the fight scenes that
are there, they're throwing in familiar Stormtroopers or inn at
at They're throwing in that stuff so that it gives
it more spectacle as the Mandalorian is fighting these obstacles
I'll call them.
Speaker 3: But I need a crew. I need a live action crew.
Speaker 2: I need more people that It could have been funnier,
certainly not enough jokes. There wasn't a ton of joy
in this film. And I'm not saying it was joy less.
There were some things that made me laugh or say, oh,
like that was there. But other than that, it's not
given you much. It's not doing much to is not
doing much to endear me to it as a standalone property,
nor is it doing much to attach me closer to.
Speaker 3: The Star Wars franchise. So yes, this is a three star.
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