We regret to say that we love Babu Frik, the indisputable breakout star of the new StarWars movie
Photo: Lucasfilm There is a lot that happens very quickly throughout the grand, saga-ending finale that is Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, some of which is more than a little messy. But this is not a post where we’re going to get into all that. No, we’re gathered here to discuss the indisputable breakout star of the movie, and the requisite cute li’l guy of this Star Wars installment: Babu Frik.
Babu, as his friends just might call him, is a little droidsmith who hangs out with Keri Russell’s badass helmet girl Zorii Bliss on her snowy planet and happens to be crucial to the plot of the movie because he can rewire C-3PO and allow him to translate the Sith language, which will [waves hands] let Rey and Poe and Finn find a device that will lead them to the potential location of Emperor Palpatine or something.
What makes Babu Frik so delightful, however, is precisely that he’s pretty much unnecessary to the plot. So much of The Rise of Skywalker is devoted to exposition, to dumb characters announcing that they suddenly have to go from one planet to the next, shouting about various prism-shaped MacGuffins, or unloading brief bits of information about their backstories before charging into the battle.
Babu Frik is also one part of Rise of Skywalker that most resembles the previous movie, The Last Jedi, which was filled with weird funny creatures on the casino world of Canto Bight, with the oh-so-cute porgs and, of course, the grumbly judgmental fish nuns. That movie may have pissed off a small, but very loud, portion of Star Wars viewers by making bold decisions about the movie’s central characters, but it showed a heartening interest in expanding the scope of its universe.
Babu Frik is not nearly important enough to land his own movie, but to my mind, creatures like him are the most interesting possible answer to that question. The thing that Star Wars has, aside from its grand mythology, is a whole playground full of weird space beings and planets and customs that Disney could wander around in, if only they could pull themselves away from stories about their most recognizable characters for a second.
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