‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu’ Review: This Is The Wrong Way
“Do you know how hard it is to be your own man when your dad is Jabba the Hutt?”
This is a line of dialogue in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, spoken by Jeremy Allen White as Rotta the Hutt. In the last few months, White has played both Bruce Springsteen and, as mentioned, the son of Jabba the Hutt (giving White the most bizarre back to back credits in cinematic history). White delivers this line with out of place sincerity, in English (or “basic,” if you live in the Star Wars galaxy), as opposed to Huttese. Also, Rotta the Hutt is jacked. This is a truly bizarre character, but not in an especially interesting way. He mentions “being his own man“ a lot. This is a weird sentence to hear repeatedly and earnestly from a giant slug.
The Mandalorian and Grogu is the first Star Wars movie in theaters in over six years. This is both surprising and normal. There were around 13 billion years before the first Star Wars movie hit theaters. After that we got gaps of 16 years and 10 years. So, in comparison to the pre-Disney years, not so long! But Disney paid George Lucas a lot of money for his company, and released five movies in five years … then stopped.
