Lego and Star Wars are things tat usually go together hand in hand with Lego telling stories that appeal more to kids and Star Wars being able to put together some cool sets that feel that they fit in with that world. Heck they've even produced some decent but not great specials together in recent years well now they've released another special and it might just be the most pointless one of the bunch and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the special that is quite literally just a retelling of the first three season of The Mandalorian with the special in question being called simply just "Lego Star Wars: The Mandalorian" enjoy.
The plot of this special is believing he is there to track down a bounty The Mandalorian and Grogu arrive on Tatooine where they find that there friends are throwing a surprise party just for them. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty OK at best. The specials plot for what it is isn't that bad but at the same time there are ither Lego Star Wars specials that do have better plots then this one with this specials plot feeling like it was meant to serve as a tie in for The Mandalorian And Grogu as the special is all about recapping key events from the show and really nothing more then that. The plot is outside of the recapped scenes is pretty thin at best with the special outside of what was described near the start of this review not really having a plot as while yes there are a few story scenes involving pirates they don't really come into play until near the end of the special which is far to little to late for that to happen with it feeling like that this special was made purely to sell kids on the idea of a mandalorian movie or any of The Mandalorian lego sets which is something that is also true for alot of the Lego sets but here it does feel like that it's getting in the way of the plot and while it is foolish to expect a good plot in a Lego Star Wars anything really you do however expect a plot that is at the vert least semi decent with the plot of this special not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this special is Gavin Hammon as The Mandalorian , Amy Sedaris as Peli Motto and Bill Burr as Migs Mayfeld. Also starring in this special is David Pasquesi as Majordomo , Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze , Emily Swallow as The Armorer , Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon , Matthew Wood as Bib Fortuna , Jawas and The Kowakian Monkey-Lizard , Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand , Nick Nolte as Kuiil , Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano , Taika Waititi as IG-11 and IG-12 , Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett , Timothy Olyphant as Cobb Vanth , André Sogliuzzo as Mythrol and Stormtroopers , Carl Lumbly as Greef Karga , David Acord as MA-13 , Eric Bauza as Luke Skywalker and EV-9D9 , Flula Borg as The Client , Marti Matulis as Vane , Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Carson Teva , Shelby Young as Anzellans and Jawas , Steve Blum as Stormtroopers and Zeb Orrelios and Trevor Devall as A Dark Trooper , Dorian Shard and A Pit Droid.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty OK at best. This specials acting was quite frankly alot more better then what it really had any right to be as like alot of these Lego Star Wars specials none of the specials actors had to turn in a good performance as let's be honest no one is going to watch these specials and yet alot of them did with the like of Eric Bauza being un recognizable as Luke Skywalker as he sounds so much like Mark Hamill that you'd assume that they just got him in to play the role again with the same thing also being true for Gavin Hammon who sounds so much like Pedro Pascal that you'd assume that they just got him back to voice the character. With the best actor in this special being Gavin Hammon as The Mandalorian as he does sound so much like Pedro Pascal that it does make you wonder why they didn't just get him to voice the character with Gavin doing enough to the voice to make it sound unique to him without doing so much that it's clear that it's not a different actor playing the role and while other actors in this special do get alot more characters to play Gavin only has the one and he plays him so well with him making the character more child friendly which given the fact that this is a kids special is something that does work for this special and it is something that does come through in his performance. With the acting that's in this special no really being helped by the fact that this specials script is just so bad as it gives none of this specials actors anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very special.
Doing the animation for this special is the legenda and the greats that are currently over at Atomic Cartoons. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty OK at best. The animation in this special was pretty decent but at the same time it did feel like a huge step down in quality when it comes to the animation that we would normally get in these lego specials as while granted the animation that we do normally get isn't the best you can still tell that there is alot of thought and effort put into it. Whereas here in this film whilst there is of course effort put into the animation it's lacking alot of thought with it being really choppy alot of the time as it lacks those extra few frames that alot of these Lego specials do have and this is something that does make the animation in this special feel more like an afterthought as there is nothing in this special from an animation stand point that makes the special stand out outside of the fact that all of the smoke and sand effects are rendered in a realistic looking 3D CGI which granted to does look good but at the same time it clashes with the fact that everything is meant to be Lego with all of the characters having these really stilted movements to them which in all fairness don't look that bad but but if they did have a few more frames of animation given to them then they could have made them look alot more smoother instead of making it look like there was a jump cut every few seconds.
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For some reason this special just recaps alot of the key moments or the mandalorian not only from The Mandalorian TV show but also from The Book Of Boba Fett. Which is just weird as one of the many things that that show got made of was for feeling like the next season of The Mandalorian as very little of the Boba Fett show focused on Boba Fett himself and yet now we have a special that once again hits home the point that he was never the main character if his own show which is just stupid and granted the whole point of this special was to get kids caught up all of The Mandalorians adventures prior to The Mandalorian And Grogu but that doesn't mean that you had to include scenes from the show that helped to ruin a character that alot of die hard Star Wars loved. Heck the only good thing that this special really does with it being basically a clip how is the fact that it doesn't feature Lego versions of the Jack Black and Lizzo cameo from The Mandalorian season 3 as nobody needs to be reminded of that even being a thing and very the very fact that this is a clip show special does make the special feel pointless as we could just watch the actual episodes and get the same expirence only now we'd have have the added benefit of having context added to the scenes that are shown in this special and heck watching the actual episodes might be better as then we get to see the characters as they were originally meant to be and while there is a plus side of this special in that it is something that was purely made with little kids in mind and therefor of course the characters and the stories don't need to be as smart as they once where here by dumbing down the characters and still having it be a clip show special there basically dumbing down both The Mandalorian and The Book Of Boba Fett when that is something that they really didn't have to do.
To be frank here this whole special feels like it was made in order to promote The Mandalorian And Grogu as there s no need for them to do a recap of any of the events in that show were it not for that fact. However even that doesn't really make that much sense as this special has only just came out and The Mandalorian And Grogu came out in May of this year which does make it a bit late to do a special that might have been used to promote a movie that ultimately bombed at the box office however tho there is also a chance that this special wasn't meant to be a tie for that movie which if that was the case then one has to wonder why they had the plot of this special being characters just telling and showing us things that we've known have happened to the characters in the first place there is always a chance that this was done to get more kids into watching the film and the shows which OK is a good idea but it is really worth putting forward all of this time and money into a special that will be forgotten about by tomorrow. There are sets for The Mandalorian therefor maybe like with the Lego Disney Princess and Lego Marvel specials maybe this one was done to help shift some of the Lego sets which OK is fair enough as alot of the shows in the eighties and nineties were also made with the idea of selling the toys but the but thing this special doesn't really do that as it doesn't make the sets look good and given the fact that alot of the Lego set sell for almost triple digits it does make you wonder just who this special was made for as while you do get adults who are still into Lego those that are still into it and have kids that are old enough to play with it are really small and no parent with kids is going to spend alot of money on a Lego set.
In something that was a surprising move is the fact that in a few of the flashbacks to scenes from season 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian it looks like we get a silent cameo from Cara Dune. Which given everything that Lucasfilm and Disney put Gina Carano through when they fired her is a shocking thing to see as while yes the character doesn't speak in her scenes with them even skipping over the episode where the two meet up for the first time it was still shocking to see what might be her character showing up and while there is a good chance that it's not her character the model that they use looks to much like her for it not to be her an while it would have been nice if it is her as her character did play a big role in the first few seasons of the show given just how petty that Disney is it wouldn't be surprising if they come out and say that its not her even tho it's clearly modelled after her. The specials villain Dorian Shard isn't that bad of a villain as he does serve his purpose of being a family friendly villain but the same time none of the clips that the show show us why he's after The Mandalorian in the first place as he tells us that he's after him because of the fact that The Mandalorian killed a member of his family but nothing in the special has shown us that that was the case when it really should have done as then it would have made feel like a more thought out villain instead of just being anther angry Star Wars villain and while the character does indeed get some good moments in the special with him always correcting people that say he's a plant creature with him always saying something that he's plant like but none of of those tell us who he is as a character and none of them give us a reason to want to boo him outside of the fact that he's the main villain of the special and that's it and that's not enough to give us a good villain.
Now then this special has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty five minuets and nine seconds. Which to be fair to this special is kind of the bogstanderd running time for alot of these Lego Star Wars specials however tho alot of the other special justify there running times buy having a better plots that demand the special be that long where as here as outside of all of the recapped scenes the special doesn't have enough plot to fully justify it being that long as you very easily could have cut this special down to thirty minuets and and not cut a single story scene in the special as the only thing that you'd have to cut down on is the pointless recap scenes and that's it with the this special not really having enough plot there to fully cover that amount of running time in the first place. With this special not even using it's running time all that wisely as the special really doesn't fully develop it's plot with the plot being about as bare bones as you can get with even the main villain of the special not even showing up until about twenty minuets into the special all because of the of the fact that the makers of this special put alot more thought and effort into giving the special alot of pointless flashback scenes then they did into giving it a well thought and well developed plot. This is something that dos also effect the characters character development as while The Mandalorian gets character development with him learning the exact same thing that he learnt in the first season of the show that bein to open up his heart and let people in and help it was handled so badly in this special ass nothing that they had shown in the specials story scenes had hinted that that was going to be the case in the place with none of the specials other characters getting kind of character development whatsoever with the makers of this special caring more about giving us pointless cameo characters they did about giving its characters some actual character development but I really will admit that this special really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that special really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy thats actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy thats actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. With the specials comedy being alot of the typical comedy that we do find in Lego specials in that they'll reply a scene from something and then have a joke play over what was once a serious moment and that is something that does work for this special as there is alot of fun to be had in the world of Star Wars and even more so with The Mandalorian as a whole. With specials best joke being at the end of the episode one of The Mandalorian recap as during the fight against all of the other bad guys in that episode IG-11 does try to blow himself up with them taking it one step further in this episode by having him get upset at everything that he's done with him threatening to blow himself up over the tiniest thing with a fight that lasted minuets in the first episode now lasting hours as The Mandalorian has to stop him from blowing himself up all of the time and that is a good joke as it's making fun of something that happend in the actual episode but is doing so in a way that does feel respectful not only to the characters but the show as a whole with the one thing that the makers could have done to make it better being if they showed The Mandalorian getting angry which granted is somethin that they wouldn't have been able to do given the fact that he wears a helmet all the time but it is something that would have made that joke all the more funnier with the rest of the episodes jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall it really is hard to say if this special or The Mandalorian And Grogu is worst as while that film was painfully bad alot of the time this special is still pretty bad with the thing being that this special was of course made with little kids in mind and that is something that we all really need to take into account when watching it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked abut all of the good an as well as all of the bad things that are in this very special in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very special really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official Star Wars fandom wiki page ,IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very special that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very special with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.