MOVIE NEWS – Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu will arrive on Disney+ on September 2, accompanied on the same day by the animated special LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian. Jon Favreau’s theatrical adventure did not impress us particularly much: our review scored it 5.6 out of 10, criticizing its flat storytelling, video game-like quest structure, and largely forgettable villains.

Released theatrically in May, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu continues the story of Din Djarin and his young apprentice after the events of The Mandalorian. Although the Empire has fallen, Imperial warlords remain scattered across the galaxy, forcing the New Republic to seek help from Pedro Pascal’s Mandalorian bounty hunter and Grogu. The movie was designed to function as a standalone adventure while still relying heavily on relationships and storylines established throughout the Disney+ series.

The film also introduces new characters played by Sigourney Weaver and Jeremy Allen White. Jon Favreau directed and served as a producer alongside Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni, and Ian Bryce, while Ludwig Göransson returned to provide the score. Disney’s announcement naturally emphasizes the movie’s action, creatures, and aerial battles, although our own assessment was considerably less enthusiastic: despite the expensive spectacle, we found that too many sequences lacked dramatic weight and the story often felt closer to an enlarged streaming episode than a fully realized theatrical event.

The Disney+ launch will nevertheless give viewers who skipped the theatrical run a straightforward opportunity to catch up with Din and Grogu’s first feature-length adventure. The Mandalorian debuted with Disney+ in 2019, followed by Season 2 in 2020 and Season 3 in 2023, before the characters finally returned Star Wars to theaters with their May 2026 movie.

LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian Arrives on the Same Day

Disney+ will also debut LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian on September 2. Rather than continuing the movie’s story, the animated special revisits characters and events associated with the live-action series through the familiar LEGO Star Wars approach, offering a lighter interpretation aimed particularly at younger viewers. It therefore functions as a playful reworking of established material rather than another canonical season of Din Djarin’s story.

Shelby Young introduced the special’s official trailer on the Star Wars stage at the Anaheim Convention Center. Inspired by George Lucas’ original Star Wars universe as well as the Disney+ series The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, the special is directed by Chris Buckley and written by Michael Price. Executive producers include Price, James Waugh, Josh Rimes, Jacqui Lopez, Jill Wilfert, Jason Cosler, and Keith Malone, with Daniel Cavey and Dan Langlois serving as producers.

The English voice cast features Gavin Hammon as the Mandalorian, David Acord as Grogu and MA-13, Amy Sedaris as Peli Motto, Bill Burr as Migs Mayfeld, Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze, Emily Swallow as the Armorer, Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon, Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand, Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano, Taika Waititi as IG-11 and IG-12, Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett, Timothy Olyphant as Cobb Vanth, Eric Bauza as Luke Skywalker, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Carson Teva, and Steve Blum as Zeb Orrelios, among several additional performers.

Both releases therefore land on Disney+ on September 2: the streaming debut of Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and the platform-exclusive animated special LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian.

Source: Disney