Jon Favreau directs Pedro Pascal, Jeremy Allen White and Sigourney Weaver in the continued sci-fi adventures of TV’s cutest duo.

Hey kids… wanna see the guy from The Bear play a sensitive yet maxx’d Jabba The Hutt? Where are you going kids? Come back…He has won Emmys and three consecutive Golden Globes?! Kids? KIDS!!… Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder should sue. Top billing Pedro Pascal in this is like saying Bruce Campbell is the star of Darkman. Baby Yoda’s puppeteers should sue. They carry this movie on their backs up the mountain and I can’t find their names anywhere. Sigourney should… Nah, she does alright outta this. It is perfectly pleasant mid-tier space adventure. I think The Mandalorian Disney+ show is the best thing to happen to the franchise since Rogue One. So Favreau and Filoni deserve their multiplex summer spin-off. The only time the comfort blanket slips is when the scale goes up a notch to grand Star Wars battles. What a mad thing to type up about the first Star Wars movie in seven years. Will sell Lego kits. This is the way.

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