Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2 Disc Special Edition)

Star Wars just isn't Star Wars anymore. We all know it, and have known it, and The Clone Wars only solidifies that statement. A full CG-rendered animated film that serves as a precursor to the Cartoon Network series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars attempts to fill in the gap between Episode II and Episode III, as the Republic is at full-scale war. Sadly however, The Clone Wars ends up being aimed at a more juvenile audience, and the whole thing just comes off as rather lame. Not to mention that story-wise, things are just pretty boring, and any of the new characters that pop up here we just don't care about. Still, there's some familiar voices to be heard though, including Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, Christopher Lee as Count Dooku, and Samuel L. Jackson as Jedi master Mace Windu; and the animation itself is stylish and well-animated. All in all, Star Wars: The Clone Wars is worth seeing for longtime Star Wars fans out of curiousity alone, but everyone is much better off sticking with the older Clone Wars microseries that debuted on Cartoon Network some time ago.

We got as a gift for our Grandson - He loves it, only movie he wants to watch when he comes over. We have watched it with him and find it very enjoyable, even for us "old" folks. Would recommend it for kids of all ages and all Star Wars fans.

Bueno, Star Wars es una franquicia que no amerita discusion. Clone Wars es una historia mas larga y la mejor manera de eternizar la tan querida saga profundizando en los hechos que hicieron de Anakin Skywalker lo que luego fue: Darth Vader. Sin duda buenos discos, buena trama, volviendo a lo que siempre ha sido Star Wars.

I want to start by saying I'm one of those nostalgic fans who saw "Return of the Jedi" at the movie theater when released back in '83. Since then I have been a fan of the saga, even the special editions and the prequel trilogy, with all their flaws.

The movie tells the story of Jabba's son kidnapped by Count Dooku, since the Jedi are negotiating with Jabba for safe passage through his territory, he intends to use this against the Jedi and blame them on kidnapping the Hutt's son. The story may work for a TV show (as was originally intended) but it clearly doesn't work for film. Add to that the amount of liberties taken with characters and story and the movie fails to deliver, it is not bad, but doesn't feel like Star Wars. Out of nowhere Anakin now has a Padawan learner called Ahsoka, they call each other "Skyguy" and "Snips" during the whole movie, Jabba's son is never called by his name but "Stinky" instead, his father calls him "Punky Muffin"... you get the picture. If that weren't enough, while the classic star wars music themes are present, they have been rearranged and new music has been composed for it, a huge part of the star wars universe was the incredible and epic score wrote by John Williams, and that's gone too.

The movie (and the series) does not follow the line from the previous work by Genndy Tartakovsky, which told separate stories of the clone wars from different perspectives as this one now focuses more in the relationship of Anakin and his recently found Padawan learner. The animation is average if compared with other releases (for example ANY Pixar film) and the designs are cool, as explained in one of the documentaries, the idea was to have a mixture from the designs used in Tartakovsky's work with the Thunderbird-like marionettes.

I have to admit this looks and sounds amazing on Bluray, after watching the first episodes of the show the movie makes more sense than when I first watched it, in the end, it's Star Wars... I have watched the movie and the episodes with my little kid and he seems to enjoy them very much, obviously, the target audience for this movie and the new TV show are not the fans from old but the younger audiences discovering Star Wars for their first time...

I'm tired of peoples lucas bashing. It's a great movie. I grew up with the original star wars trilogy on VHS. I was a fan at a very young age. I collected the card games, the action figures etc.I, like many were disapointed by the prequals. Look past the special effects that despite don't look "real". Do most special effects actually look "real". The stories are great. This movie is a perfect example of how star wars is not supposed to be about special effects. Thisis just a 3d cartoon. Its all just great story telling with great characters following a serial matine style. What do you want? Do you want them to quit telling Star Wars stories because there not as good as the original. You had your star wars as a kid now let the young ones of today have their star wars. If you really want Star Wars to survive forever it needs fans, and the original fans aren't going to live forever.Didn't mean to ramble but if you're wondering if you should buy this I'd say rent it first. HAN SHOT FIRST(dont change the Solo)