Muppet movies are a franchise, but they’re also a genre. Take a famous human, surround them with wacky nonhuman creatures, and you’ve got yourself a Muppet movie. By this metric, the new trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu looks an awful lot like a Muppet movie.
The only human actor we really get a good glimpse of is Sigourney Weaver, who appears to be playing on a space iPad in a space diner when Grogu, a.k.a. Baby Yoda, tries to use the Force to steal her bowl of space snacks. Other than that, it’s all puppets, CGI, and masked characters, including the titular bounty-hunting, babysitting Mandalorian, Din Djarin, who never once takes his helmet off to reveal Pedro Pascal’s face in the 94-second teaser.
This preview of the film is light on dialogue, heavy on out-of-context action, and doesn’t give any of the plot away. But boy, does it have weird little guys and weird big guys in spades. These include: stormtroopers, an alien bartender, three little Babu Frik–type guys driving Grogu around in a sidecar, Jeremy Allen White voicing Rotto the Hutt (son of Jabba) in a battledome, a guy who looks like Killer Croc, a water monster in a hoodie, a rat-toothed shrieking freak with one red eye, and another Babu Frik guy who says “Good shot, baby!” when Grogu goos the rat freak in his eye.
The Mandalorian and Grogu was “forged for Imax” and will be released in theaters on May 22, 2026. This movie spinoff of the Mandalorian Disney+ series will be the first theatrically released feature film in the Star Wars universe since 2019’s Rise of Skywalker, but this film takes place much earlier in the timeline, after season three of The Mandalorian; Baby Yoda is still a baby, after all.
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