IMAX Theater, Reclining Seats, Big Buttered Popcorn, and A Grogu ICEE? Check, Check, Check and Check!

 (Edited/content added, 5/25/2026)

Ahhh :)

(The two shadows are my feet up in the reclining chairs, of course.)

So what's a Grogu ICEE?

It's the green thing on the right, Grogu-colored.

It's a cherry-and-lime ICEE - and it's was actually really good, better than you think it would be!

We also bought a giant tub of extra-butter popcorn, pretzels, pop, candy - behaving as if we were kids again - cholesterol and A1c be damned!

They guy waiting on us to get this food was super fun, and he actually gave us some stuff free because we made him laugh with our silliness and telling him we were pretending we were kids going to see a movie again.

He bragged to us that he still has the original Star Wars Trilogy originally on VHS.

I said that's great, but I saw the original Star Wars Trilogy when they came out at the theaters, I win! 😂

I told him that my older sister took me to the first one at the Kenwood Theaters in Cincinnati, OH, in 1977, when I was 8 years old, and that my friend, Jacky and I, flew down the aisle of a fully-packed theater, after a bathroom trip, with our arms spread out like X-wing fighters, making a "vroooom" sound, to which my older sister hid her face, pretended not to know us, and vowed never to take me to a movie again. 😂

But I promised him that I would refrain from doing so, this go-round!

As for this one, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu?

LOVED IT!

Well, mostly loved it - just a tad predictable, as it's a Disney kid-friendly Star Wars movie.

I also didn't like the fact that he told Grogu to heel like a dog, though he's his adopted son?

And there were some CGI characters with exaggerated racial features again, like in the Phantom Menace (black and Asian).

Except they were paired with different accents this time, in apparent attempt to seem less so?

Not sure why George Lucas does that or approves that in some movies, especially considering his wife is black?

So in the last big-screen movies, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker, we have actual human characters of different races fighting the empire, and the aliens look like aliens.

But this time, we're back to CGI or Muppets with exaggerated human racial features as aliens again?

Alllrighty.

Well, at least they're usually good-guy characters, fighting for the rebellion/New Republic - so maybe he's trying to say aliens come in all colors, shapes and sizes, too?

And yet still, it just comes off as ... well, somewhat racist ... as if people who look differently than white people are aliens. 

Otherwise, I LOVED it - especially the fight-pit scenes!

So ... Mando/Din fights like a Jedi, he's almost psychic about anticipating his opponents' next moves.

I mean, I know Mandalorians are trained fighters and it's a sort of meditative religion - but he's especially good at it.

So Mando/Din is an orphan right?

Hmm.

It wouldn't surprise me at all of Mando/Din actually has the force but doesn't realize it.

If that is revealed, you heard it first here, Ladies and Gents!

And, of course, I love it when Grogu is onscreen, it just makes me melt and smile, so adorable, hee hee!

He's grown just a little bit physically, as is his power, which makes it all the more puzzling why Mando/Din Djarin tells him to "Heel" like a dog, considering he's essentially his adopted son.

And this is a baby Yoda we're talking about -  who one day will be smarter, more sophisticated, and has the force innately - and can whup evil ass better than Mando even thought of?

But alrighty, we shan't dwell.

Their relationship is the thing, right?

And of course y'all know how much I love Pedro Pascal (helmet on almost entirely through the movie, though).

Plus Sigourney's in it!

About damn time!?!

And guess what?

She's a pilot and we get to see her fly and kick butt again!

Of COURSE for the rebellion/New Republic, who else would she fight for?

Yayyyyy!

Had a great time!!!