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1.0 out of 5 stars
2 Jedi and a Baby, August 29, 2009
LUKE: You fought in the clone wars?
BEN: Yes, I was once a Jedi Knight the same as your father.
LEIA: General Kenobi, years ago you served my father in the clone wars.
These quotes lit a fire under our curiosity, and it burned for nearly 30 years. Now the excitement and anticipation can be satisfied by...
...the further adventures of little orphan Annie!
CLONE WARS boasts exciting space dogfights and intense light saber duels. But these things do not make up for where it fails miserably. Nowhere in this movie do we see the echoes of the great stories hinted in A NEW HOPE. Nowhere do we see a camaraderie develop between Bail Organa ("years ago you served my father") and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Since 20th Century Fox did not release this film (can't say I blame them), the movie opens with the Warner Brothers logo and without the signature Alfred Newman prelude. There is no written prologue that retreats into the distance of space. The animation is rather wooden. This would have been acceptable had the film been made by a studio with a more limited budget. But it was made by George Lucas who has money coming out of his ears! Financially, there is no reason why THE POLAR EXPRESS should look better than CLONE WARS. But even VEGGIE TALES looks better than CLONE WARS.
The plot of CLONE WARS is that the Jedi are summoned to rescue Jabba the Hutt's kidnapped son. That is the plot of the movie called CLONE WARS. Can someone please enlighten me as to what that has to do with the Clone Wars?
Jabba junior who inherits the nickname,"Stinky" is much more annoying than ewoks and Jar Jar Binks put together. There is even an utterly failed attempt at humor by pointing out that Junior the Hutt made a poopie. (No, I am not making that up.) Which, incidentally, is how we arrive at his cute nickname. Jabba the Hutt's uncle plays a role in the film as well. Ziro the Hutt does nothing to add to the entertainment value of this heap except to make the viewer wonder whether or not he was based on Truman Capote, for there is an uncanny resemblance.
The music in CLONE WARS almost never sounds like any of the scores composed by John Williams. Sometimes it sounded like a rock band and sometimes like classical Chinese folk music.
I'm sick and tired of people defending ewoks and Jar Jar Binks by saying it's in there to appeal to the kids. Where have you been the last 30 years? It's STAR WARS! The name alone has kid-appeal and always has. It has more kid appeal than Fess Parker's Davy Crockett, for crying out loud. And it had it long before an ewok ever scratched his ear or a Gungan ever ruined a movie. You might as well complain about Sesame Street not having enough kid appeal.
In a word: Stinky.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
'The Clone Wars' is a piece of Sith, November 20, 2009
To put this in perspective,I have always been the one to defend the prequels after it became trendy to criticize them but I have to draw the line at this particular cinematic travesty.
At best, the storyline reads like amateur fan fiction but to be fair, it has potential to keep small children occupied for a while. The action sequences were reasonably entertaining but unfortunately, I was too distracted by the painful dialogue to thoroughly enjoy them. If a movie that bears the iconic name of "Star Wars" has a need for comic relief, it could not come from a much more ridiculous source than assembly-line droids whose programming should not include personality of any sort, much less slow-witted ineptitude.
But the annoyance of the droids pales in comparison to that of the character of the young Padawan "Ahsoka Tano". From the word 'go', this alien brat exhibits an attitude that should have got her drop-kicked out of Jedi College a long time ago (in a galaxy far away). Her consistent backtalk and unwillingness to follow orders is difficult to picture being tolerated in any military organization but somehow she is given a free pass by the Jedi masters, and recalcitrant pre-teen girls will probably also find her quite inspiring. If 'The Clone wars' were an AT-AT walker, Ahsoko would be the snowspeeder tow-cable that brought it to its knees and crashed it.
For any true and long-term fan of the Star Wars franchise, this movie is worth its weight in Rancor droppings. For the writers of this animated insult, perhaps Vader could suspend Boba Fetts "no disintegrations" restriction...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
What Can I Say? The Kids Dig It., April 20, 2009
I've been a Star Wars geek since the third grade, and I am now the proud mom of two elementary-aged boys who (like most of their friends, I'm glad to say) also adore the series. Frankly, I sort of wish Lucas had stopped with the three original films which I think are classic and wonderful. The three newer live-action films left a lot to be desired, I felt, but my boys adore them all just as much if not more than the old Luke/Leia/Han movies I grew up with. With the boys it's all about the action, and The Clone Wars delivers. We saw the preview to this film in the movie theater, and our whole family of four almost jumped out of our seats. How cool! A neat looking cartoon version of the mythical clone wars starring my favorite character, the awesome Obi Wan. Of course, we went out to see it on its opening day (along with some other families with Star Wars boys) and the kids adored everything about it. My view was that it was neat-o, for sure, but clearly not made for adults. Let's be real, this movie is positioned as the set-up to a new cartoon television series, so it basically seems like a slightly long episode of a tv cartoon. But I like the look of the series with its vivid interplanetary settings and way-cool battle sequences. And being able to see Jedi in action is an overdue pleasure. However, questions are raised which are impossible to answer. I, for one, can not relate to the character of Anakin as a mentor to a youngling since I know that one day he's going to cold-bloodedly murder a whole temple full of them. My kids even asked me if Anakin is going to kill his padawan one day. Yikes! But if you've got kids in the house or a Star Wars collection to add to, you simply have to buy this.
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