{"id":35254,"date":"2026-05-23T15:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/?p=35254"},"modified":"2026-05-23T15:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:37:27","slug":"star-wars-the-mandalorian-and-grogu-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/star-wars-the-mandalorian-and-grogu-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars:  The Mandalorian And Grogu Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"35254\" class=\"elementor elementor-35254\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b30ec2f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"b30ec2f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-53e9c47\" data-id=\"53e9c47\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9f688e2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9f688e2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Mandalorian And Grogu, the latest Star Wars movie, was released on May 22, 2026.<\/p><p>I saw it the next day.<\/p><p>If you are a fan of the series on Disney +, The Mandalorian, then there is no reason why you should not enjoy this movie.<\/p><p>I know people are picky with spoilers, so if you don&#8217;t want to know anything else until you see the movie, then do not read on.\u00a0<\/p><p>This movie continues the adventures of The Mandalorian and Grogu.\u00a0 This time, Mando has been assigned a mission to rescue the son of Jabba The Hut, Rotta, from a prison.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>Turns out Rotta has been fighting, literally, to win his freedom.\u00a0 However, he does not know that the promoter (also someone Mando is looking for, how little does he know at first) he is being forced to work for, also has a plan to make sure Rotta does not survive his last scheduled fight.<\/p><p>There is more than this, but I&#8217;ll just say again:\u00a0 If you like The Mandalorian series, then you will like this movie.<\/p><p>Mando and Grogu are great together.\u00a0 It&#8217;s awesome to see Sigourney Weaver in the Star Wars universe now, the character of Rada is really good, and as a lifelong Star Wars fan, I loved this and was moved at times by some of the emotional stuff that happens.<\/p><p>The franchise is in great hands with Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni.<\/p><p>Check out this movie and watch the series if you haven&#8217;t.\u00a0 It&#8217;s on Disney + and you can buy it all on Blu-Ray (I still love physical media.).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ff8ca07 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"ff8ca07\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-83a8fd7\" data-id=\"83a8fd7\" data-element_type=\"column\" 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I saw it the next day. If you are a fan of the series on Disney +, The Mandalorian, then there is no reason why you should not enjoy this movie. I know people are picky with spoilers, so if you don&#8217;t want to know anything else until you see the movie, then do not read on.\u00a0 This movie continues the adventures of The Mandalorian and Grogu.\u00a0 This time, Mando has been assigned a mission to rescue the son of Jabba The Hut, Rotta, from a prison.\u00a0\u00a0 Turns out Rotta has been fighting, literally, to win his freedom.\u00a0 However, he does not know that the promoter (also someone Mando is looking for, how little does he know at first) he is being forced to work for, also has a plan to make sure Rotta does not survive his last scheduled fight. There is more than this, but I&#8217;ll just say again:\u00a0 If you like The Mandalorian series, then you will like this movie. Mando and Grogu are great together.\u00a0 It&#8217;s awesome to see Sigourney Weaver in the Star Wars universe now, the character of Rada is really good, and as a lifelong Star Wars fan, I loved this and was moved at times by some of the emotional stuff that happens. The franchise is in great hands with Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni. Check out this movie and watch the series if you haven&#8217;t.\u00a0 It&#8217;s on Disney + and you can buy it all on Blu-Ray (I still love physical media.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-movie-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35254"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35268,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254\/revisions\/35268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}