Grogu entered the world as the first Star Wars film in seven years, adapted from Disney+’s The Mandalorian and centered on Grogu. Opening weekend results brought $165m globally, the lowest for a live-action Star Wars film, signaling a decline from earlier franchise highs. Critics raised recurring complaints, including that the film feels uncinematic, lacks a clear story arc, and resembles stitched-together episodes rather than a cohesive movie. Despite claims that writers created a bespoke film story after plans for season four were shelved, the film’s execution drew criticism. The broader context frames Star Wars as a franchise in crisis, with floundering performance after recent releases.
"Over its opening weekend, it made $165m (£122m) globally, an all-time low for a live-action Star Wars film (though only fractionally behind 2018's far costlier Solo: A Star Wars Story). It's barely been a decade since The Force Awakens became the biggest North American film ever; what a long, long time ago that now seems."
"Critiques of Grogu have largely taken the same lines of attack - the same trench runs, as it were. "It feels uncinematic." "There's no story arc." "What the hell is Jeremy Allen White doing?" Clarisse Loughrey, awarding it two stars for The Independent, called it "the dullest and most inconsequential Star Wars film ever made", noting that it felt like three episodes of The Mandalorian "stitched together"."
"(Officially, this wasn't the case, with writers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni claiming that they came up with a bespoke story for the film after initial plans for The Mandalorian season four were shelved.) All these complaints are reasonable - Grogu is a profoundly flawed film. (And White's character, the angsty, musclebound son of Jabba the Hutt, is truly the pits.) But make no mistake, when it comes to Star Wars, The Mandalorian and Grogu is not the problem."
"It's widely agreed at this point that Star Wars is a franchise in crisis. This is true of many ongoing pop-culture goliaths, from Marvel to Doctor Who, but Star Wars - too big to fail, like a multinational bank - has been particularly conspicuous in its floundering. Since 2019's Rise of Skywalker"
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