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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] | ![Star Wars: The Clone Wars (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z7ut5gOUL._SL160_.jpg)
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| Actors: Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $35.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 231
Format: Ac-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Extra Tracks, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 98
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 1000042340
UPC: 883929036516
EAN: 0883929036516
ASIN: B001GQSY64
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: November 11, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: new still original packaging
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 Far, FAR away from great November 20, 2008
I'm a Star Wars fan; which is to say I'm a fan of the original franchise before Lucas sold out and began making the films for merchandising rights and placed profit before storytelling. This is one more example, but I'll be more objective and base this review on content not bias.
In terms of the timeline, this takes place between episodes 2 & 3, but it undermines the Cartoon Networks animated Clone Wars cartoon (which was very well done). In the cartoon, Anakin is still a padawan but eventually becomes a Jedi and the timeline leads up literally to the opening scenes of episode 3. So where does this fit in? It doesn't.
In terms of characters, Anakins padawan is introduced. What padawan? Good question. There's never been a reference to Anakin ever having a padawan. Not in episode 3, not in the cartoon, not in the books. Nowhere. The character herself is an annoying, disrespectful, sophomoric twit. You can argue that Anakin was undisciplined, but Anakin didnt grow up in the Jedi Temple. She's the Jar Jar of the show. The only good thing is knowing that she must die before episode 3.
The animation is fine for TV, but it should never have been released in the theater, As a precursor to the series it works, aside from the fact that it never happened.
The best part of the movie/series are the clones themselves. This really shows them as people and individuals as opposed to the human robots we've come to see tham as. The entire movie and series would have worked better if it had been entirely from the point of view of the troopers, with the Jedi being secondary characters. That would have eliminated any undermining of the storyline, which is what Lucas ended up doing.
It is what it is..... November 19, 2008
OK. Let's face it. MOST people are downing The Clone Wars because it just doesn't live up to the rest of the Star Wars saga. In that respect, the public is 100% correct.
Now, let's take The Clone Wars for what it really is. It is merely a feature-length prelude to the kid-friendly animated TV series on Cartoon Network; nothing more, nothing less. Even George Lucas himself admitted in an interview that the Clone Wars feature film was pretty much "an afterthought" after he viewed the dailies from the actual TV show.
I, for one, felt that the animation was quite beautiful and pleasing to the eye as far as the backgrounds and layouts were concerned. Yes, the characters did appear to be too rigid and expressionless and everyone's hairstyles appeared to be molded from Play-Dough, but overall, the animation was quite nice; maybe not state-of-the-art, but still quite enjoyable.
Also, it is true that the plot was rather thin, but remember Lucas' target audience for this film and the TV series; kids and pre-teens. My five-year-old loved it and I enjoyed watching it with her. Compared to the actual movies, however, it does leave you kind of flat. Even Genndy Tartakovski's 2004 Clone Wars traditional animated series was vastly superior to this film, but you have to keep in mind the fact that the 2004 series was aimed at a more mature audience (teens and adults IMHO).
Will I watch the series on Cartoon Network? If I'm home and there's nothing else on or nothing else better to do, sure. If not, oh well, no big loss. I won't make it a point to tune in.
So, take this film for what it is; a kid-friendly chapter in the Star Wars prequel saga; just don't expect to experience that same thing that the films offered and you will enjoy it.
Two and half stars in a Galaxy Far Far Away November 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Star Wars Clone Wars is the pre-emptive effort to do two things;
Capitalize on Star Wars a movie franchise and to send out a major introduction to the Star Wars animated series on Cartoon Network.
Clone Wars relies on the fact that the audience who loved the latest trilogy will really like this version of Star Wars, and they probably do. It's full of action and light hearted jokes and some hip dialogue that only young people use. The movie starts strong, with a great action sequence with Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi defending a city from the droid army under Count Dooku. The plot extends to show Dookus plan to kidnap Jabba the Hutt's son in order to frame the Jedi and win favor for shipping routes in the outer rim.
As it moves on the movie keeps its pace and is entertaining, but somewhere in the middle they seemed to realize they forgot about Queen Amidala and new story line is born. This seems to drag the movie down and slow the pacing. Not that it's a bad story line but it's not integrated well and things kind of deteriorate. The animation is strange at first, it looks like the characters are all carved from wood, but you get used to it after a while and realize it's very good.
In all, it's a decent movie. There weren't any high expectations, it's Star Wars after all. I will say that in many respects as far as dialogue and acting go, it's quite surpasses the live movie trilogy. I think good old Uncle George (Lucas) doesn't realize that the die hard fans from the original trilogy aren't that interested in the Adventures of Anakin during the Clone Wars once we found out how he because Darth Vader.
This movie is good rental and a decent venture in an official Star Wars movie that WASN'T directed by Uncle George, who seems to have lost touch with the original audience of his success. I can only hope that he will let more young directors take the helm and writing duties for future projects. There is a lot of talent out there who adore the original trilogy and the basics of the new stories that could breath serious life into the franchise.
 Better than I thought it would be November 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
So, I saw this originally in the theater. I mean, it's Star Wars, you have to experience Star Wars in the theater. I can now say I've seen every movie in said way (going back to '77). I went into it with no preconceived notions about it, only that it was a new Star Wars movie. I never saw a trailer or anything for this. It was something I started when the prequel came out. I wanted to know nothing about the movies before seeing them.
So, ok, this was just an excuse to make a movie. The plot is cellophane thin. I am actually all right with that. The action scenes SCREAM Star Wars, Anakin and the other main characters are fleshed out a little more, and it is all in all good fun. It is geared for a younger audience, but so were all the others.
Ahsoka is great. Even at her tender age, she is able to keep up with the likes of the Chosen One. Yes, there are certain characters that don't necessarily fit in with what most of us see as the Star Wars universe (Rotta, Ziro) but it was necessary for what story line there is.
All in all, I enjoyed watching this and YES I do own this on DVD. I haven't been able to catch the series yet on Cartoon Network, but based on the movie (weak storyline and all), it has potential to expand, in a good way, the Star Wars Universe.
 Kids enjoyed it November 15, 2008
Its not that this is a bad movie but as a 26 year old man with a love for Star Wars I really didn't enjoy this movie that much. In fact, I dont see why there was a theater release b/c it looks more like direct to video. I got the blu ray and was hoping for good bells and whistles but I wasn't impressed. The audio quality I found was kind of a let down even though lightsabers usually sound about the same but on blu ray you kind of expect more.
I don't know anything about the series coming out and perhaps if I did I would have enjoyed it more. I did notice Obi Wans beard looked like he took square blocks and glued them around his face. I did like seeing the clone troopers since the new movies didn't go too deeply into their squad tactics. I was hoping for more clone fights and battles though. Seeing them in action, even though it was cartoon like was nice. I did think the story was relatively pointless and didn't make me get to the end and say "man that was pretty good". Weird seeing the WB logo and no Star Wars intro at the beginning just the name of the movie. I found a lot of the Star Wars music was missing in fact all of it was but you could tell it was Star Wars for the most part. The humor of the droid army and pretty much the whole movie was more directed toward a younger audience which was o.k.
My three year old daughter has autism and she gets a kick out of watching movies with flare and vivid colors. This movie had that in the battle scenes and I could tell that though she can't talk her excitement showed clearly. She doesn't know whats going on but she has a rare taste in these movies and even though she doesn't watch it like me I know she liked it. At 1st I couldn't get her to watch the movie all she would do is lay in her bed and look at the movie case. After that I think she got curious about what the case was and that was my five star rating, seeing her enjoyment.
I watched Star Wars a lot when I was little and its great to see a new generation enjoying it hence my five star rating. Since as far as I know the Star Wars saga is over I hoped this movie had been better. It didn't really hurt the series but it didn't really add much to it. Not the worst movie but not the best so I guess I would say it was o.k.
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