It’s not shaping up to be a happy May The Fourth for the Star Wars community.

Puck‘s Matthew Belloni just published this year’s iteration of “Hollywood’s Report Card, According to High School Kids,” in which he sat down with five Los Angeles-area teens to get their takes on the current state of the movies. Two interesting things that were unearthed relate to two big media franchises: Marvel and Star Wars.

(Before we get too far here, It’s important to note that surveying five teens is not considered statistically significant — not that Belloni portrays it as such — nor representative of what teens at large think, either here in the United States or globally. Nevertheless, we persist with their findings.)

Two participants mentioned the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day as a film they are looking forward to this summer, with another referring to the movie as “an event.”

“The past couple years haven’t really had a lot of movies that interest me, that feel like an event. Like Infinity War and Endgame. Odyssey is pretty interesting to me. Spider-Man, going off of the last three, it feels like an event—sort of,” they shared.

Highlighting how the new Spider-Man film is the only movie to emerge from the MCU this summer in theaters, Belloni asked the teens if they “wish[ed] there was more.” One simply replied, “No,” while another said thy “think” the one film is “a good amount.” Another pointed to Marvel “trying to rebuild themselves,” noting that “Spider-Man‘s always gonna hit.”

“The last one was a while ago—I think it was when we were in 7th grade, 2021—and it had all three Spidermen, so there’s a lot of anticipation for this one,” they added. “Tom Holland and Zendaya have grown so much in popularity since the last movie.”

These observations reflect Former Disney CEO Bob Iger previously admitted in 2023 that the media company was making too many sequels, and noted that the surge in Marvel series for Disney+ “diluted focus and attention” from making hits for the box office.

Belloni also gauged their interest about Star Wars, with one teen telling him that they “like the old stuff, but the new stuff… nah.”

“I’m not too excited for The Mandalorian,” they added. “I never watched it, personally.”

One felt that they “anything that came out after [they were] born isn’t that great,” while another claimed that “Star Wars has been quiet lately,” though they “liked Andor a lot.” But one had thoughts about Grogu, or “Baby Yoda.”

“Baby Yoda is creepy!” they shared. “At the Oscars he looked like an animatronic.”

They argued that unlike Grogu in the trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu, Project Hail Mary‘s Rocky “looked like he was like an actual entity that could be a part of the movie.”

Meanwhile, DECIDER’s Jesse Hassenger made the case for a Star Wars hot streak in early 2025, naming series like The Acolyte, Andor, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as examples of Lucasfilm’s “most sustained creative hot streak in years.”