The Simpsons movie had stakes and emotional impact. The Alaskan scene with Marge leaving Homer? Nothing in Mando comes anywhere close to it.
I’d say most of the star trek movies did as well. The first one, while being the strangest of the bunch, hit you several times. The Wrath of Khan is rife with it, the nature of family. Even when they retconned Spock back in the next movie, there was weight there.
Mando by all accounts was placid, shapeless pew pew nothing, with some cute scences and some bright flashing action scences, but with near zero growth or conflict for the titualar characters. They could have pushed the show forward, given Grogu more independence, really redefined the relationship that shows how kids grow from and away from their parents, but no. They split up, have a cute thing, have am action thing, then nothing of impact happens and it just resets to “man and baby go about their day.”
If you want to take your media to another medium, it should be to do something with it, something that matters, even if its only for a couple of hours. It should have some impact when it shirks its everyday bonds. That did not happen here.
Dude, if you think the Simpsons had stakes but the mandaloroan and grogu didn’t I think you’re just biased against star wars.
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The entire second half of the movie was about Din as a father definitely not going to outlive his adopted son, Grogu as a child struggling against the death of his father, and Rotta struggling to reject a toxic family that didn’t want to let him go.
The Simpsons movie had stakes and emotional impact. The Alaskan scene with Marge leaving Homer? Nothing in Mando comes anywhere close to it.
I’d say most of the star trek movies did as well. The first one, while being the strangest of the bunch, hit you several times. The Wrath of Khan is rife with it, the nature of family. Even when they retconned Spock back in the next movie, there was weight there.
Mando by all accounts was placid, shapeless pew pew nothing, with some cute scences and some bright flashing action scences, but with near zero growth or conflict for the titualar characters. They could have pushed the show forward, given Grogu more independence, really redefined the relationship that shows how kids grow from and away from their parents, but no. They split up, have a cute thing, have am action thing, then nothing of impact happens and it just resets to “man and baby go about their day.”
If you want to take your media to another medium, it should be to do something with it, something that matters, even if its only for a couple of hours. It should have some impact when it shirks its everyday bonds. That did not happen here.
Dude, if you think the Simpsons had stakes but the mandaloroan and grogu didn’t I think you’re just biased against star wars.
spoiler
The entire second half of the movie was about Din as a father definitely not going to outlive his adopted son, Grogu as a child struggling against the death of his father, and Rotta struggling to reject a toxic family that didn’t want to let him go.
That’s a great opinion. We see things differently.