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title: "The Mandalorian and Grogu"
year: 2026
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imdb_id: "tt30825738"
tmdb_id: 1228710
wikidata_id: "Q124246549"
fi1m_score: 58
critics_score: 59
critics_reviews: 7
published: "2026-09-09"
updated: "2026-09-18T08:37:43.329294+00:00"
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# The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

Directed by Jon Favreau · 2h 12m · Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

## Identity

The Mandalorian and Grogu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/film/the-mandalorian-and-grogu
- **Type:** Film
- **Fi1m ID:** the-mandalorian-and-grogu
- **IMDb ID:** tt30825738
- **TMDB ID:** 1228710
- **Wikidata ID:** Q124246549
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30825738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1228710, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124246549

**Fi1m score: 58** · Critics 59 from 7 reviews

*In a sentence:* Two and a bit hours of television with the lights turned up, saved twice by a puppet and once by Martin Scorsese

> Jon Favreau’s big-screen outing for the armoured bounty hunter and his green ward is pleasant, tidy and forgettable, a pair of good television episodes with the joins painted over. The puppet and Martin Scorsese’s street vendor are the reasons to stay.

## Synopsis

The Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal), a bounty hunter who does not take off his helmet, is still travelling from job to job with Grogu, the small green child in his care. Sigourney Weaver plays Colonel Ward. Jeremy Allen White voices Rotta, a young Hutt, and Steve Blum returns as Zeb Orrelios from the animated *Star Wars Rebels*. Along the way there are sea snakes, walking Imperial tanks and a street vendor with the voice of Martin Scorsese. Jon Favreau, who created the series for television, directs from a script he wrote with Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor. It runs 132 minutes and carries a 12A.

## Review

Seven years after it began on television, Jon Favreau brings the armoured bounty hunter and his small green ward to the cinema, and the first thing the film has to justify is the size of the screen. It does not quite manage it. *The Mandalorian and Grogu* is amiable, tidy and handsomely dressed, and at 132 minutes it plays like two episodes of the programme with the join sanded down. We enjoyed a fair amount of it on the night and could recall surprisingly little of it by the morning.

Nobody in it acts better than the puppet. Grogu blinks, flattens his ears and reaches for things he should not have, and because he is a physical object sharing the frame with Pedro Pascal’s armour, every scene they have alone together has a weight the digital ones lack. There is a stretch in the middle where nothing is being hunted and the child is simply looking after the man, and it moved us more than we were ready for. The film knows exactly what it has in that relationship. Then it hears a noise offscreen and goes back to work.

The work is monsters. A sea snake attacks, AT-ATs stride across a battlefield, and a series of large creatures are met and fought. Favreau, who wrote the script with Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor, builds the film as a chain of hunts, and Rachel Goodlett Katz and Dylan Firshein cut each one to a clean, legible finish before the next begins. It is competent and it is repetitive. Somewhere in the second hour we caught ourselves waiting for a recap card that never came.

Pascal is under the helmet for the duration, and Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder do the walking and the falling, so his performance is a voice, patient and tired and dry, and it carries more than it should have to. Sigourney Weaver gives Colonel Ward the same brisk command she has been lending to spaceships since [*Aliens*](https://film.one/film/aliens), and the film brightens whenever she is issuing orders. Jeremy Allen White voices Rotta, a young Hutt, as the film’s second odd-couple partner, and the character is louder than he is interesting. Steve Blum’s Zeb Orrelios, carried over from the animated *Star Wars Rebels*, gets a scene. Martin Scorsese voices a street vendor called Hugo Durant, and for about a minute the film is funnier than anything around it.

David Klein shoots in the series’ palette of rust, sand and steel, and the frames are wide and well composed without ever looking like more than expensive television. The sets by Andrew L. Jones and Doug Chiang have the worn, riveted look the programme has always done well; the digital backgrounds behind them are flat in a way the puppet never is, and putting the two side by side does the effects no favours. Mary Zophres dresses the new faces plainly and sensibly. Ludwig Göransson’s score, the recorder motif and the slow drum, is still the most distinctive sound the franchise has, and it does more to make this feel like a film than the widescreen does.

The first series, back in 2019, borrowed the shape of a Western and knew where its hour ended. Favreau also once made [*Iron Man*](https://film.one/film/iron-man), which understood that a blockbuster needs a story with a middle. This has a beginning and an end and a great deal of hunting between them. *Rogue One* showed that a spin-off could stand on its own as a film; this one stands beside the television and asks to be let back in.

Take a child, if you have one; they will love the puppet as much as we did. If you have not got a child, you already know whether you are the sort who will go anyway. The rest of us can wait for it to come home, where it will look like what it is.

*Fi1m score 58, published 9 September 2026.*

## What the critics say

The spread is wide. Most critics agree the film plays like a condensed or stitched-together season of the television series, with a hunt-and-battle structure that repeats itself and a storyline few find consequential. Praise clusters around Grogu, whose puppetry is singled out by reviewers on both sides of the divide, and around Pedro Pascal’s charisma under the helmet. Sight and Sound also picks out Martin Scorsese’s voice performance as a street vendor. Several reviews enjoy the set pieces, a sea snake attack and an AT-AT battle among them, and The Wrap and NME find enough heart and momentum to call it a proper big-screen adventure rather than an extended episode.

The dissent is sharp: Vulture calls the action pro forma and the performances monotone, The Telegraph finds the brawls clumsily staged, and The Times reads the whole thing as pitched at pre-schoolers. Flat CGI and a lack of ambition come up more than once.

## Straight answers

**Is The Mandalorian and Grogu worth watching?**

*The Mandalorian and Grogu* is worth watching only if you already follow the programme or have a child who will love the puppet, and we scored it 58. It is amiable, tidy and repetitive, a chain of monster hunts with little story between them. Grogu, Sigourney Weaver and a minute of Martin Scorsese are the reasons to stay.

**How long is The Mandalorian and Grogu, and what is it rated?**

*The Mandalorian and Grogu* runs 2h 12m. It is an action and adventure film.

**Where can I watch The Mandalorian and Grogu in Norway?**

*The Mandalorian and Grogu* is streaming on Disney+ in Norway, and it is also available to buy from Amazon Prime Video from kr 169.00. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service.

**How violent or frightening is The Mandalorian and Grogu, and is it suitable for children?**

*The Mandalorian and Grogu* carries a 12A and is suitable for most children, though the youngest may find its creature attacks intense. The violence is a series of clean, bloodless hunts: a sea snake, walking Imperial tanks, large monsters fought and beaten. Nothing in it is adult or lingering, and the puppet at its centre is built to be loved.

**How does The Mandalorian and Grogu compare to The Mandalorian?**

*The Mandalorian and Grogu* is the weaker of the two, a pair of episodes stretched to 132 minutes without a proper middle. The first series borrowed the shape of a Western, kept its humour brisk and knew when each hour should stop. Newcomers should begin with the series; only its admirers need the film.

**What should I watch after The Mandalorian and Grogu?**

After *The Mandalorian and Grogu*, try [*The Mandalorian*](https://film.one/tv/the-mandalorian) (2019, Fi1m 76): The first series, where the Western shape was new and each hour knew when to stop. Then [*Paper Moon*](https://film.one/film/paper-moon) (1973, Fi1m 86): A con man and a child on the road, and the child is the one in charge; and [*Rogue One*](https://film.one/film/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story) (2016, Fi1m 70): The spin-off that behaved like a film, with a middle and an end it meant.

### Reviews we read (12)

- **Empire**, John Nugent (70/100, inferred): The first Star Wars film in nearly a decade doesn’t shake up the formula: instead, it’s a lively if inessential extended episode of the series. But Mando remains cool, and Grogu remains cute. [Read](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/the-mandalorian-and-grogu/)
- **Los Angeles Times**, Robert Abele (65/100, inferred): The critic finds the film a sturdy, affable Star Wars offshoot and throwback with simple pleasures and strong creature-feature elements that deepen the parenting theme between Mando and Grogu. It falls short of being riveting enough to supplant classic franchise memories and has story deficiencies despite serviceable action. [Read](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2026-05-19/mandalorian-grogu-review-pedro-pascal-sigourney-weaver-jeremy-allen-white-jon-favreau)
- **Vulture** (30/100, inferred): The movie is drab and lifeless with pro forma action and monotone performances that fail to engage. It works best in a slowed-down interlude highlighting Grogu's puppetry and emotional care for the Mandalorian. [Read](https://www.vulture.com/article/review-the-mandalorian-and-grogu-shouldnt-be-a-movie.html)
- **Sight and Sound**: The critic finds the film a pleasant but eminently forgettable family-friendly Star Wars adventure that struggles to escape its television origins, with a repetitive hunt-battle structure feeling like stitched-together episodes. Grogu’s puppetry and Martin Scorsese’s voice performance as a street vendor are singled out for praise, while the flat CGI is noted as a weakness. [Read](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/star-wars-mandalorian-grogu-jon-favreau-expands-his-hit-streaming-series-into-pleasant-forgettable-big-screen-adventure)
- **The Guardian**: The film is a solid enough addition to the Star Wars universe, serving up familiar narrative tropes on an Imax scale with entertaining set pieces. It barrels along capably but lacks sufficient humanity, humour and extravagant space melodrama. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/19/star-wars-the-mandalorian-and-grogu-review-helmeted-hero-tangles-with-hateful-hutts-in-decent-feature-outing)
- **The Hollywood Reporter**, Frank Scheck: The film is an entertaining Star Wars adventure that stands alone but feels like a condensed TV season with an inconsequential storyline. It benefits from Pedro Pascal's charisma and Grogu's cuteness amid spectacular action sequences. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-review-pedro-pascal-star-wars-1236597305/)
- **The Telegraph**: Even Baby Yoda cannot save this spin-off, whose absurd plot flops from one clumsily staged brawl to another. The puppetry and stop-motion are strong points amid the otherwise hopeless execution. [Read](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/05/19/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-review/)
- **The Times**, Kevin Maher: This latest Star Wars effort demonstrates that the franchise has become the dying dog of Hollywood. The plot is unashamedly stolen and skewed toward a preschool market, with Mando fighting like an amateur. [Read](https://www.thetimes.com/culture/film/article/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-review-its-time-to-kill-off-star-wars-for-good-bzm870vjl)
- **NME**, Lou Thomas (4/5): It is a strong, entertaining Star Wars spin-off with non-stop action and heart that proves the franchise still has cinematic life. The critic singles out the constant thrills from set pieces like sea snake attacks and AT-AT battles, plus Favreau’s confident direction blending TV tone with blockbuster energy. [Read](https://www.nme.com/reviews/film-reviews/mandalorian-and-grogu-review-star-wars-pedro-pascal-3946253)
- **The Wrap** (80/100, inferred): Jon Favreau’s film lacks ambition but compensates with heartwarming heroes and breezy blockbuster adventure, making it the most purely entertaining Star Wars movie since the 1980s. It is straightforward and absorbing with plenty of heart that keeps it from feeling shallow. [Read](https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-review-star-wars/)
- **Den of Geek**, David Crow (2.5/5): The film is a disappointingly average Star Wars entry that feels like an expensive TV rerun rather than a true big-screen adventure. It singles out a few graceful Grogu-focused sequences and the hypnotic score for faint praise amid mostly dull, boardroom-approved beats. [Read](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-wars-the-mandalorian-and-grogu-review/)
- **Deadline**, Damon Wise (40/100, inferred): The film is pretty entertaining in its simplest moments but feels like the Star Wars franchise has lost its way and is showing its age. It rehashes familiar elements without recapturing the original magic. [Read](https://deadline.com/2026/05/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-review-pedro-pascal-jon-favreau-1236915463/)

## Details

- **Director:** Jon Favreau
- **Director:** Jon Favreau
- **Writer:** Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Noah Kloor
- **Cinematography:** David Klein
- **Editor:** Dylan Firshein, Rachel Goodlett Katz
- **Music:** Ludwig Göransson
- **Production design:** Doug Chiang, Andrew L. Jones
- **Costume design:** Mary Zophres
- **Producer:** Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni
- **Cast:** Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian; Jeremy Allen White as Rotta (voice); Sigourney Weaver as Colonel Ward; Brendan Wayne as The Mandalorian Suit Performer; Lateef Crowder as The Mandalorian Stunt Performer; Steve Blum as Zeb Orrelios (voice); Jonny Coyne as Lord Janu; Matthew Willig as Hogsbreth
- **Runtime:** 2h 12m
- **First release (the US):** 14 May 2026
- **Genres:** Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
- **Budget:** $165 million
- **Box office:** $345 million
- **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwild1rw7Aw

## Where to watch in Norway

- Disney+: streaming, uhd
- Amazon Prime Video: buy kr 169.00, uhd

*Checked 2026-09-10.*

Also available in: AR, AT, AU, BE, BG, BR, CA, CH, CL, CO, CZ, DE, DK, EC, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HK, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, JP, KR, LT, MX, NL, NO, NZ, PA, PE, PH, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SG, SI, TR, US. Add `?region=XX` to this URL for another country.

## If you liked this

- *The Mandalorian* (2019), Fi1m 76: The first series, where the Western shape was new and each hour knew when to stop. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/tv/the-mandalorian.md)
- *Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance* (1972): The armoured man and the small child, done first, in Japan, with a pram full of blades.
- *Paper Moon* (1973), Fi1m 86: A con man and a child on the road, and the child is the one in charge. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/paper-moon.md)
- *Kikujiro* (1999): Kitano’s gruff man and lost boy, funnier and sadder than anything with a helmet.
- *Rogue One* (2016), Fi1m 70: The spin-off that behaved like a film, with a middle and an end it meant. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story.md)

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