Star Wars Spinoff ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ Has a Clumsy Debut

The Return to A Galaxy Far, Far Away Has Never Felt More Pointless

The Mandalorian and Grogu is one of the most uninspired movies I've seen this year. It's less of a movie and more of a prolonged episode of television, one that comes between two big storylines in the season and serves... Read more...

The Woke Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu Isn't Doing Well

Apparently, the fact that it’s woke and executive Kathleen Kennedy spent so much time answering the DEI mandates is seemingly irrelevant. The movie just isn’t very good. Outgoing Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy had no cohesive plan for the franchise, no vision for where it was heading. Instead of deeply thought-out stories for the legacy characters that emphasized heroism or gave them a fitting end to their arc, Kennedy focused on checking the c…

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu a rote return to galaxy far, far away

Star Wars and television have been going together like “ramma-lamma-lamma-ka-dingity-da-dinga-dong” for ages. Never forget, the second piece of filmed Star Wars media ever was that Star Wars Holiday Special. The 80s, meanwhile, delivered Ewok TV movies and a Droids cartoon that introduced the world to Jann Dosh. Then there were the Clone Wars programs of the 2000s. This galaxy far, far away has been rooted in the small screen long before Disney+…

Star Wars spinoff ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ has a clumsy debut

“MANDALORIAN AND GROGU” leaves us us with disappoinment (Walt Disney Studios). By Mark Kennedy AP Entertainment Writer It’s been nearly seven years since there was a new “Star Wars” movie released in theaters and there are lots of ways to do it. “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu,” a disjointed off-ramp that lacks the scale and ambition of its sisters, fails the task. As the Mandalorians might say, this is not the way. Creator and director Jo…