Everything about this film has come across as exceptionally underwhelming… I feel like we are headed towards another Solo-esque release. The IP is in a terrible place in general public opinion and you are releasing a film intentionally with no overall plot significance with a 50s “pulpy” cheesey/cute adventure story in a way that looks blatantly like a TV to movie low budget production. Just not sure what they expect to happen here… Do they really expect this to bring the masses back? They are 5 years late for the Mando hype and Star Wars hype/interest is extremely low right now compared to just about any other time in the IPs history. This whole “throwback” marketing strategy has been tried time and time by Disney again with other IPs and it NEVER works. I don’t think this movie will crash as hard as Solo did because the budget is WAY lower, but it’s not going to get a huge reception by fans or the general public. At best, I would predict it’s trending like a Skeleton Crew type of thing where most people don’t hate it and it’s good for what it is but most people don’t even give it a chance.
On the positive, hell yeah to the Amani at 0:41, thrilled Ludwig Göransson is back, and Zeb will be cool to see in a live action movie too.
Also, the official announcement page is full of weird phrasing and errors “The Mandalorian’s Zeb Orrelios is back” wut.
https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-mandalorian-and-grogu-trailer-key-art-1
They absolutely just fed the trailer to an AI and told it to write an announcement lol. There are so many markers of AI text here.