Star Wars took seven years to get back to movie theaters, and this weekend it finally did. The Mandalorian and Grogu opened Memorial Day weekend to $102 million domestically, a healthy number, though on the lower end for the franchise. Critics were divided, with the film currently sitting at 64% on Rotten Tomatoes, with reviewers calling it a fun but modest expansion of the Disney+ series rather than a true cinematic reinvention. A handful of notices were genuinely harsh, with one calling it 'a mashed-up TV arc that belonged on Disney+ rather than in IMAX.'
Then the audience scores, however, said something different.
As of this morning, The Mandalorian and Grogu has earned an 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, the highest of any Star Wars movie released under Disney's ownership, which began with The Force Awakens in 2015. The only Star Wars films with better audience scores are the three movies from the original trilogy. That's a record that has stood for more than 40 years, and Din Djarin and Grogu just crept up behind it.
The gap between what critics wrote and what audiences felt is wide enough to fly a Razor Crest through. At 64% on the Tomatometer versus 89% on the Popcornmeter, the film lands in familiar Star Wars territory; a franchise where the people who grew up loving these characters and this galaxy tend to experience the movies very differently than the press does. It happened with the prequels. It happened with the sequels. It is apparently a feature of this franchise's relationship with its audience.
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What seems to be driving the warm response is actually the film's simplicity. Director Jon Favreau largely set aside the tangled mythology that weighed down Season 3 of The Mandalorian and built the movie around what the show always did best, spotlighting the bond between Pedro Pascal's stoic bounty hunter and a small green kid who uses the Force to steal snacks. Audience reviews on Rotten Tomatoes repeatedly praise the action, the emotional core, and Ludwig Göransson's score. Several note that the film works for families in a way few recent blockbusters have, something reflected in the exit data which showed unusually strong turnout among children under 13 and adults over 55.
The movie also got a strong A- CinemaScore, a signal that people who paid to see it largely walked out happy. That metric, which measures opening-weekend audience satisfaction, is often a better indicator of long-term box office health than opening-day numbers or critical reception. For a film that was expected by some to struggle, the A- is a positive sign about the potential future success of the movie.
Whether The Mandalorian and Grogu can sustain that goodwill through the summer will depend on word of mouth, and specifically whether the families and franchise loyalists who showed up this weekend tell their friends to go. The second-weekend hold will matter enormously. But right now, the story of this movie's opening weekend isn't what the critics said, it's what audiences decided.
Star Wars has had a complicated decade. Fans have argued, scorned, and occasionally abandoned the franchise. This Memorial Day, at least, a lot of them came back, and overall seemed to like what they saw.
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