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As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights struggle to maintain order and restore peace. More and more systems are falling prey to the forces of the dark side as the Galactic ...( read more
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MCT:December 20, 2008Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Laughing through his beard all the way to the bank, George Lucas continues to milk Star Wars fans? wallets with the rough, ruthless efficiency of Vader himself. Flat and heartless, this animated atrocity is simply a videogame you can?t play. -
MCT:December 13, 2008
Maybe it was because I had such low expectations, but I actually didn't hate this movie. I thought it brought up some plot holes in the overall Star Wars universe, but it wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen, even as far as Star Wars movies go. Episode I was worse, imo.
The series has actually been pretty good (though I still hate the droids in the droid army), and this was basically like a series premiere. -
MCT:November 15, 2008The Clone Wars, though aimed at a younger audience may actually appeal to all Star Wars fans. The action is pretty much constant and there is even some excellent animation to throw you straight into the center of the battles. Anakin has more life in him than any of the orequel films and comes across as a leader. Some of the other voices though are poor impersonations. Ashoka is a great characters, hotheaded like Anakin but sweet with it. Her relationship with Anakin is built on quickly but believably. The core plot sounds a little bizarre with the Jedi's helping to rescue Jabba's son. By the end though the Hutts are the true stars. Stinky is so cute and cuddly and also good for a few laughs and his existence adds a fatherly warm quality to Jabba. It will now be difficult to watch his death scene in RotJ. Then there is Jabba's uncle Ziro. A camp, purple, tattooed mincing kind of hut. He is a strange creation but a bit of fun. The film really does set the tone for a TV series which I now intend to watch. Though not as epic as Williams scores, the music fits well in this universe and even if the droids have had their comedy chips set to +100 it offers some smiles to proceedings. Enjoyable sci-fi action that isn't out of place with it's Star Wars brand name.
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MCT:November 10, 2008"The desert is merciless. It takes everything from you."
George Lucas is turning into an enemy of film. After the atrocious Star Wars prequels, I honestly thought the Star Wars legacy couldn't possibly be additionally defiled. Alas, it is this review's despondent duty to report that this animated addition to the Star Wars canon has managed to be worse than all three Star Wars prequels and the earlier Cartoon Network TV series. Star Wars: The Clone Wars even makes the 1980's Ewok adventures look like The Empire Strikes Back in comparison! As soon as it was announced that Lucas was releasing this animated feature, it smelt like a cash grab - and in final analysis this is nothing but a shameless cash grab. Thankfully, it performed disappointingly at the box office. Maybe Lucas will finally realise it's time to stop exploiting the Star Wars franchise.
Sometimes one milks a cow so extensively that the milk turns sour and undrinkable. Lucas has milked this franchise like this for years. The prequels were crossing over into sour milk territory...The Clone Wars enters the undrinkable milk territory. After 10 minutes I was already bored. Unfortunately, things only continued to deteriorate. George Lucas' involvement was minimal. He didn't direct nor write. Never thought I'd ever actually say this, but bring back George! The script for this film is worse than those written by Lucas, the characters are stale, it's juvenile, the animation is putrid and it's dull!
The first 30 seconds of the movie are a warning of things to come: the traditional 20th Century Fox fanfare is replaced with the subdued Warner Bros. logo. The Star Wars theme has also been butchered. After the words "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" appear, you expect to hear the immortal music followed by the customary opening scrawl to detail the story so far. Instead there's some peculiar, sub-par pseudo-variation of it. The remixed music sounds like contemporary pop music! Following this, the iconic scrawl is replaced by the voice of a narrator. It sounds like a cheesy version of Starship Troopers! As a whole, the music and narration is like nails on a chalkboard. This alone was sufficient forewarning before plunging into the abysmal central narrative... The son of Jabba the Hutt is kidnapped and the Jedi are assigned to get him back. How utterly lame and un-Star Wars!
Remember the unbearable character known as Jar Jar Binks from The Phantom Menace? After suffering every miserable second of character interaction in The Clone Wars, I felt more tolerant towards Jar Jar! Yes, it's that bad! Anakin's new pre-teen apprentice - Ashoka Tano - is the equivalent of Hannah Montana! Not only does this character spend the entire film getting into trouble constantly and cracking bad jokes, but she repeatedly refers to Anakin as "Sky-Guy". And Anakin calls her "Snips". WTF?! After the introduction of this character I foolishly thought things could not get any worse...but they did.
Meet Jabba's son Stinky. Yep, the characters call him Stinky. He's the baby version of Jabba the Hutt who spends the entire film making funny faces and farting. That's right folks...Star Wars now has fart jokes. And Jabba now uses language like "punky muffin".
The credibility of the plot is very quickly damaged. Jabba has a son with no wife or partner in sight? How do the fat slugs even copulate? At least we can be thankful there's no Jabba the Hutt sex scene. Oh, and it also turns out Jabba has an evil, cross-dressing, English-speaking pimp for a cousin who sounds like a cross between Truman Capote and a member of the gay community with throat cancer. Once this character hit the screen, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. For a moment I thought perhaps my coffee was spiked with LSD. But alas, I was not high.
The battle scenes are frequent and on a large scale, yet they're undermined by a number of things. First of all, there's never an ounce of intensity. The battle droids are even played out for laughs. For example, they tell each other to shut up. The clone troopers are also capable of karate. There are several instances when a random clone trooper would transform into Jason Bourne and begin fighting the battle droids in close combat (at one stage a clone trooper punches a droid...then shakes his hand as if to suggest it rather hurt). During the action there are laser bolts and rockets buzzing around like flies, however we know all this artillery won't ever hit anyone important. The intensity is further ruined when Obi-Wan takes a break during a battle to stall the commander by explaining he wants to discuss the terms of a surrender. They're even served soup!
This is unmistakably a movie for the kids and for the kids only. The Force is never mentioned, Anakin's crossover to the dark side is never even hinted at, and the music will make you detest the very concept of music. The grand touch of John Williams is sorely missed. In its place is an incompetent composer who inserts guitar solos during the action sequences! Maybe George Lucas should hire Whitesnake to record new music for the original six Star Wars movies as well...
Star Wars: The Clone Wars features zero characterisation (save the juvenile interaction we're constantly given) and practically no story. The boring voice cast is accompanied by only three recognisable names. Anthony Daniels, Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee are the only members of the original cast to lend their voices. But they're only allotted a few minutes each. Everyone else is pretty much interchangeable. Frank Oz doesn't even voice Yoda. The replacement can only be described as awful. All these actors make you miss the wooden human acting on offer in the prequel trilogy. The dialogue is also dismal...let's not even go there.
This brings me onto the issue of the poor animation. The filmmakers endeavour to make the CG animation appear as unique as possible. The appearance of the characters, for instance, is blocky and chiselled instead of particularised. There aren't any individual strands of hair on heads or any form of facial hair. Instead there's a solid mass that a sculptor might have carved from stone or clay. The animation comes off looking strangely square and very cheap. Maybe that's the point as this movie introduces us to the television series for which, understandably, the filmmakers must cut costs. Nevertheless, The Clone Wars is a major motion picture, and audiences paying big bucks for tickets deserve far better.
Suffice to say, I did not even remotely like this travesty of a film. The Clone Wars is not Star Wars and it isn't worthy to be counted as part of the saga. This is cartoonish to extremes in everything from the script to the appalling animation. If George Lucas disowned Howard the Duck, I'm surprised he didn't do anything similar here. All this film offers is action and non-stop fighting. As I said, this action isn't even exciting. It's dull and subdued, and the animation is too trite for anything to look spectacular. This is merely a monotonous story with repetitive combat sequences that only add to the turgid video-game anonymity of it all.
Okay, so this is a film made for children and perhaps I'm being overly harsh. But the original Star Wars movies were gritty and competently executed. They appealed to a wide audience. Why couldn't this film be created to appeal to all ages? The Clone Wars even fails as a children's film. I've heard reports of children growing restless and sleepy by the time a cinema screening concluded. There is no fun to be had with this film. -
MCT:November 9, 2008
it was decent, not as crap as i thought it would be... a little short
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MCT:January 7, 2009dont get me wrong i love star wars, igrew up off it. this was just alright nothing spectacular except how the whole animation look and the action of it but plot was so cheesy. if you have nothing to do check it out but i dont recommend it
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Rosepetal75posted 101 days ago -
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:For Shane Detert and anyone else wondering:
The "Star Wars : The Clone Wars" TV series begins on Cartoon Network on Friday, October 3rd!!!
May the force be with us all...
posted 135 days ago -
IM A HUGE STAR WARS NERD, THE ANIMATION WAS AWESOME, EXCEPT FOR ANAKIN, LOVED THE STUFF WITH THE CLONES, REALLY SUCKED GREIVOUS DIDNT HAVE ANY SCENES, DIDNT REALLY LIKE ALL THE NEW MUSIC WHERE WAS ALL THE STAR WAR THEMES? I THOUGHT THE STORY WAS KINDA WEAK I REALLY HOPE IN THE FALL THE EPISODES GET BETTER WHEN THE ANIMATED SERIES STARTS. THERE COULD OF BEEN MORE RECONZIED CHARACTERS IN JABBA PALACE. OVERALL THIS MOVIE WAS GOOD NOT GREAT. AT ALL IM NOT SAYING THIS MOVIE SUCKED I THINK IT JUST HAD SOME HOLES THAT NEED TO BE FILLED, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN THE ANIMATED SERIES HITS ON CARTOON NETWORK?
posted 140 days ago -
My Dad and me are going to see this movie to night at forget what time it we that we are seeing it.My friend seen it and see said it was good but see things every thing is good..
posted 142 days ago -
i think they should use ewan mc gregor and hayden christiansen's voices fo this movie since they were both in the actual clone wars movie...but that's just my opinion!
posted 144 days ago -
Lol, anyone notice that the Dark Knight was still playing on more screens at their local theatre than this one?
I'm not going to bother seeing it in the theatres i've decided. Too much re-hash, too much retcon. I really don't have any desire to see this new Padawan, just like "Starkiller." Star Wars sadly cannot keep what was common knowledge for us 30 years ago true canon; George has to keep adding on crap to the universe, along with the league of horrible writers that keep out churning trash (that people surprisingly buy). I'm not dissing all of Star Wars, but like anything that I have an option to see or not, I see no reason to waste my time or really regard this seriously (like I do with the horrible comics, books, and MOST of the games). I'll say this - I did like Episode 3 more than the other prequels and I DO like the premise of the Clone Wars. However, I'd much rather see the rise of the Empire, Mr. Lucas. You couldn't even represent that well in Episode III.posted 145 days ago -
So bad. George Lucas seriously needs to just drop Star Wars now. He's made his money from this franchise. He should just move on and maybe start on something new.
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