The motivation of the Grogu/Mandalorian connection is one of father and son. While the context of the new movie "The Mandalorian And Grogu" very much integrates that story in a very subtle but also feeling way, the reality is that the series could do it just as well. It is not that the film isn't cinematic. It ups the ante from the get-go, in many ways like "Solo" did. This a more mature and seasoned Mandalorian as well as Grogu. Director Jon Favreau knows this...and in writing this with Dave Filoni, he does understand his characters inherently.

The context of an Indiana Jones film, actually backed up by a quote from Steven Spielberg, is for the entire movie to have the pace of a trailer. This is a true statement but it also needs to keep within some realm of viability. "Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny" fares a bit better because it both understands its subject but also embraces the aspect of who he is now (as in 1969).