This Review Bro

Indexed: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]That's like what I've been talking about since the beginning of them announcing this movie. It's like, WELL, WHY?

[00:00:14]IT BEGINS CONFIDENTLY IN THIS MATTER WITH Mando introduced heroically in the shadows engaging in some satisfying gunslinging and cowboyish rolls. I can bring you in warm, I can bring you in cold, he snarls nodding to the pilot episode. And he says that again. Oh, dude, is this a spoiler? Mando is now working full-time as an independent contractor for the New Republic, still a bounty hunter for hire, but exclusively for the good guys. This is how he enters the orbit of the twins, the Hutt gangsters desperate to retrieve their roided up nephew Rotta.

[00:00:44]Are you natural or not? Yeah, cuz the the Hutts are on roids. No, they just they weren't on a cut. Rotta is the film's first stumble. While the twins speak in traditional tongue-twisting Huttese, Rotta bafflingly speaks Galactic Basic with a New York accent.

[00:00:59]>> Oh my god, bro. Oh, hell, man. What the [ __ ] man? Hey, you, forget about it.

[00:01:06]>> [laughter] >> No way, dude.

[00:01:08]No way. Yo, Mando, where my pie? Where my piece of pie at? Oh, man. I'm kind of like ruining the movie for myself, I guess, but which she kind of whines about being a nepo baby while getting a droid-based sports massage. Rotta might be a fan favorite from his appearance in the original Clone Wars film, but his presence begins to make the film feel repetitive. Quite literally sluggish.

[00:01:31]Thought he was on roids. Time and time again, Mando is forced to fight reams of CGI aliens where the stakes rarely rise above how is Mando going to get out of this pickle?

[00:01:40]>> [sighs and gasps] >> Just when you think the film has forgotten the second character named in its title, the pace abruptly slows in the third act when Mando takes a backseat to the artist formerly known as Baby Yoda. There's a lovely bucolic near-worldness sequence in which Grogu takes the lead demonstrating quiet tenderness, resilience, and leadership that belies him mere 50-something years.

[00:02:04]While the film sometimes coasts on his cuteness, the introduction of multiple equally adorable and Zelens add to this feeling. It never forgets that he remains its greatest asset. What it does slightly forget to do though is move the story forward in any meaningful way. And that's that's like what I've been talking about since the beginning of them announcing this movie. It's like, well, why? Why?

[00:02:24]Like, you left that closed chapter in season 3. What are the stakes here?

[00:02:28]There are no real stakes. You're going to have to find some sort of side mission just like a couple of the filler episodes in every season that we've had in The Mandalorian except for the third one which was the whole thing. It was just And you wouldn't really have that much at stake. It would just kind of be a Oh, we're just introduced to this now. Okay, the film should conclude this and that's it. There is nothing continuing. There is nothing that you're expecting or anticipating or hoping for. Uh the theories are like, there's nothing to really even go off of, right? Cuz everything was, you know, all the loose ends were tied. Done. Whereas in at the end of season 2, you had so many possible potentials of going in different directions with all the different characters, having them split up. Mando, Grogu, Luke, Din, everyone could have done their own thing. Moff Gideon in jail. Like, we could have had his arc. Oh, dude, all the people that he's pissed off, all the people that he's wronged, and he's now in jail.

[00:03:23]Maybe he's got friends in there. I don't know. That even could have been an arc in and of itself. Give me a show on that. Too late now. Gone he is.

[00:03:52]>> Mhm.