A Star Wars cartoon!

I'll be there with my bat ears and bangles on!

Wake up and smell the Dooku!

Not that I don't like Star Wars (I wanted to be Luke when I was six) but wouldn't something like this be better on DVD? In a summer filled with Iron Men and Bat Men is this really theater worthy? This seems like something to be released closer to Christmas for something to take the kids to after all the presents are opened. Remember "Batman: Mask of the Phantasm?" Warner Bros. knew better then to try and put it up against Jurrasic Park and whatever the hell else was playing back then.

Why is everyone so reluctant to admit that Lucas, despite being super rich and a creative giant, may be the WORST director of acting ever to work for a major studio? To call the actors in any of the Lucas directed films wooden is to be too kind. He can't seem to get a decent performance out of a minor character under any circumstances, and quite frankly, JarJar Binks may be the best acted character Lucas has ever directed.

Samuel Jackson is particularly bad in his Star Wars work. It's painful to watch. Quite honestly, I was so traumatized by episode 1 I still haven't recovered enough to watch 2 and 3.

So, dare we hope that the acting in this animated version is decent? It's always been a real shame that Lucas' writing is so wonderful (see the Indiana Jones films), his visual sense is magnificent, and yet his actors are so unbelievably bad for a major studio project. Is this finally changing? I certainly hope so.

It's true he's a terrible director of actors. That's why, in accordance with his long-held dream, he's ELIMINATED actors!

Lucas' direction of actors is really amazingly bad, but it's the preschool dialouge, that is just way beyond sad.

They were dircted by Irving Kershner. Lucas was on another continent, developing the effects. It worked out better that way, didn't it?

Kershner graduated from Kindergarten

Lucas on the other hand

Is the constant gardener.

So... a movie review that only reviews the visual style of the movie, and fails to mention the plot and characters... was there a second page that I missed?

Last time a checked, cool visuals weren't a reason to shell out $15 at the movies. I'll pass on this thanks. The magic of this series is long gone.

C'mon!

This is a STAR WARS MOVIE!

That's why she moved on past it in the first paragraph.

Here is what happens in Star Wars: The Clone Wars:

-- droids fight clones

-- lots of droids die, but they are comic-relief baddies so nobody cares when they're blown up or chopped up

-- the clones look like proto-storm troopers and they fight well enough, but nobody cares much about them anyway because they're all the same guy with different facial hair

-- obi-wan kenobi runs around fighting. he surrenders to the droid army, but IT'S A TRAP...by him!

-- then anakin and ahsoka disable the shield and ka-BOOM goes the dynamite special effects!

meanwhile...

-- count dooku kidnapped jabba's love child (jabba's baby mama is nowhere to be seen)

-- dooku makes it look like the jedis are the kidnappers so jabba will get pissed off at the jedis/republic, and become friends with the separatists

-- that way, jabba and his network of smugglers will allow the separatists access to all the shipping routes in the outer galaxy

-- anakin and ahsoka have to resuce jabba's baby and keep it alive so they can return it to jabba and convince him that they are not the kidnappers

-- to do this, they have to go to a bunch of places on various planets i can't remember

-- one place, they have to climb a wall while under attack.

-- when they get to the top, an evil gothic woman comes out and they fight her long enough to make their escape on giant dragonflies

-- later they are flying in a spaceship and they get attacked, but they make a crash landing on tatooine and there are jawas and stuff

-- there is more fighting

-- padme amidala is on coruscant and she has to get jabba's uncle to agree to work with jabba

-- jabba's uncle works in a bar and is totally gay

-- padme amidala, the goth villain, and ahsoka all have great butts

oh wait, that's not the plot

Yoda is around somewhere, coughing up green hairballs.

Truly, it is not worth seeing.

Well, since Alec Guinness hinted the Clone Wars in 1977 to young Luke, I always wanted to see them. While I head problems with Ep 1,2 and 3 like everybody else, I always appreciated Lucas effort. The hidden political backstory of the prequels, evil politician creates fake war to get rid of democracy, was just unrealistic for audiences in the early 21st century. And lucky us George did not insist on directing the Jones movies himself. So this time he picked Dave Filoni as director, who did a good job in the animated field while working on "Avatar: The Last Airbender". But the Sci Fi movie I really can't wait to see is JJ Abrams Star Trek next May…

For those who don't know, this will be on CartoonNetwork(& most likely ondemand) in a couple months. As someone who grew up with "Star Wars" & "Raiders" the thing I don't get is why Lucas chooses to direct anything. Or write for that matter. The last good directing job he did was for the original "Star Wars" I wonder why Lawrence Kasdan wasn't asked to write any of the new movies. Kasdan is a master at making you actually care about characters. I wish he'd get more work. "The Big Chill", and less so "Silverado" and "Grand Canyon" are classic.

"Star Trek" sounds like it could be pretty good. The teaser trailer was awesome at least. For me, next year's most anticipated sci-fi flick is "Avatar", James Cameron's first non-documentary since "Titanic". The hype should start any minute now. "Avatar" is the movie Hollywood hopes will make 3D respectable. I'm not sure 3D will ever catch on if it involves glasses but I expect "Avatar" to push the format a lot further than "Journey to the Center of the Earth" did. Besides, I suspect Cameron isn't bothered by small concerns like budget anymore. Should be pretty cool.