THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU lands on Disney+ on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026, giving families a second shot at Din Djarin and his small green sidekick just over three months after the pair left theaters, Variety reported.
“Even when our franchise films don’t meet our box office expectations…our investments in these core properties fuel other parts of our company,” The Walt Disney Company Chief Executive Officer Josh D’Amaro said, addressing the STAR WARS spinoff’s disappointing domestic haul on a recent earnings call.
The movie opened in theaters on May 22, and by the time Disney pulled it from cinemas, it had earned roughly $345 million worldwide against a $165 million budget — solid money, but well short of the blockbuster mark Disney had hoped for from a STAR WARS title. It landed on digital platforms in July before its Disney+ streaming premiere, and Collider reported it quickly climbed into the digital top 10 during that window.
Jon Favreau directed the movie from a script he co-wrote with Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor, reuniting most of the creative team behind the Disney+ series. Pedro Pascal returns as bounty hunter Din Djarin, Jeremy Allen White voices Rotta the Hutt and Sigourney Weaver joins the cast as Colonel Ward, with Kathleen Kennedy, Favreau, Filoni and Ian Bryce producing and Ludwig Göransson composing the score.
Set after the Disney+ series, the story follows Djarin and Grogu working for the New Republic to hunt down neo-Imperial warlords, a mission that pulls them into a gladiator pit built to hold Jabba the Hutt’s son. What starts as a rescue turns into something bigger once Djarin realizes the crime lord running the arena is the very warlord he’s been chasing.
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Movieguide® gave the movie four out of four stars for quality but flagged it with a caution rating for content, landing at a minus-one on the publication’s plus-four to minus-four scale. The review notes brief shirtless male nudity, some Force-related mysticism and a passing scene of gambling, on top of the near-constant monster and blaster fights.
“This is a violent movie by family-film standards: monster after monster…but it’s a lot,” Movieguide®’s review of STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU states, warning that younger children may be frightened by the relentless creature battles and Imperial firefights.
Beneath the fighting, the review found real heart in the central relationship, calling it a story of “a father teaching a son, and eventually a son protecting his father right back.”
Movieguide® has tracked this franchise closely all year, from projecting its opening-weekend haul back in May to reporting on the surprisingly young, family-heavy crowds who turned out for it, a pattern that held even as the movie’s overall box office fell short of Disney’s targets.
For families who skipped the theater or just want another round on the couch, the Disney+ release offers a low-stakes rewatch of a story built on loyalty, rescue and resisting tyranny — themes that hold up whether Grogu is on the big screen or the living room TV. Just heed Movieguide®’s caution about the monster fights first, and maybe let the littlest fans sit this one out until they’re a bit older.
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