I personally loved it. It was its own contained side story like Solo was. It showed some evolution for Grogu and Mando was a bad ass.
The biggest complaint I see is that it’s a “longer episode of the show.” Yeah, but so is any Star Trek movie, the Sponge Bob movie, the Simpson’s movie, etc. Anything that’s a TV product that goes to the theater is just a long version of that thing because we are used to the thing on TV. That said, this did not bother me at all as it was enjoyable.
All of the love they added through shots that were based on original Star Wars concept art were very enjoyable. I loved the use of stop motion that was a nod to things like the Rancor from RoTJ. It was filled with awesome creatures, droids, and a connection to the Clone Wars.
The Simpsons movie had stakes and emotional impact. The Alaskan scene with Marge leaving Homer? Nothing in Mando comes anywhere close to it.
I’d say most of the star trek movies did as well. The first one, while being the strangest of the bunch, hit you several times. The Wrath of Khan is rife with it, the nature of family. Even when they retconned Spock back in the next movie, there was weight there.
Mando by all accounts was placid, shapeless pew pew nothing, with some cute scences and some bright flashing action scences, but with near zero growth or conflict for the titualar characters. They could have pushed the show forward, given Grogu more independence, really redefined the relationship that shows how kids grow from and away from their parents, but no. They split up, have a cute thing, have am action thing, then nothing of impact happens and it just resets to “man and baby go about their day.”
If you want to take your media to another medium, it should be to do something with it, something that matters, even if its only for a couple of hours. It should have some impact when it shirks its everyday bonds. That did not happen here.
Dude, if you think the Simpsons had stakes but the mandaloroan and grogu didn’t I think you’re just biased against star wars.
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The entire second half of the movie was about Din as a father definitely not going to outlive his adopted son, Grogu as a child struggling against the death of his father, and Rotta struggling to reject a toxic family that didn’t want to let him go.
It was the first movie I’ve seen in cinema for a long while and I was pretty damn happy with it. I went with a friend who is picky about movies and even he only had a couple of gripes.
Judging by the comments here I’m assuming that, a lot like Solo, people want it to be bad. Glad I ignored that ‘it must fail’ attitude when Solo came out as well, it was actually pretty decent.
I personally loved it. It was its own contained side story like Solo was. It showed some evolution for Grogu and Mando was a bad ass.
The biggest complaint I see is that it’s a “longer episode of the show.” Yeah, but so is any Star Trek movie, the Sponge Bob movie, the Simpson’s movie, etc. Anything that’s a TV product that goes to the theater is just a long version of that thing because we are used to the thing on TV. That said, this did not bother me at all as it was enjoyable.
All of the love they added through shots that were based on original Star Wars concept art were very enjoyable. I loved the use of stop motion that was a nod to things like the Rancor from RoTJ. It was filled with awesome creatures, droids, and a connection to the Clone Wars.
The Simpsons movie had stakes and emotional impact. The Alaskan scene with Marge leaving Homer? Nothing in Mando comes anywhere close to it.
I’d say most of the star trek movies did as well. The first one, while being the strangest of the bunch, hit you several times. The Wrath of Khan is rife with it, the nature of family. Even when they retconned Spock back in the next movie, there was weight there.
Mando by all accounts was placid, shapeless pew pew nothing, with some cute scences and some bright flashing action scences, but with near zero growth or conflict for the titualar characters. They could have pushed the show forward, given Grogu more independence, really redefined the relationship that shows how kids grow from and away from their parents, but no. They split up, have a cute thing, have am action thing, then nothing of impact happens and it just resets to “man and baby go about their day.”
If you want to take your media to another medium, it should be to do something with it, something that matters, even if its only for a couple of hours. It should have some impact when it shirks its everyday bonds. That did not happen here.
Dude, if you think the Simpsons had stakes but the mandaloroan and grogu didn’t I think you’re just biased against star wars.
spoiler
The entire second half of the movie was about Din as a father definitely not going to outlive his adopted son, Grogu as a child struggling against the death of his father, and Rotta struggling to reject a toxic family that didn’t want to let him go.
That’s a great opinion. We see things differently.
It was the first movie I’ve seen in cinema for a long while and I was pretty damn happy with it. I went with a friend who is picky about movies and even he only had a couple of gripes.
Judging by the comments here I’m assuming that, a lot like Solo, people want it to be bad. Glad I ignored that ‘it must fail’ attitude when Solo came out as well, it was actually pretty decent.