Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

Director:

Dave Filoni

Writers:

Henry Gilroy (screenplay)
George Lucas (characters and universe)

Release Date:

15 August 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights struggle to maintain order and restore peace...

Plot Keywords:

Good Versus Evil | Jedi | Star Wars | Apprentice | Sequel

US Showtimes:

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Cast

Matt Lanter	...	Anakin Skywalker (voice)
Ashley Eckstein	...	Ahsoka Tano (voice)
James Arnold Taylor	...	Obi-Wan Kenobi / 4-A7 / Medical Droid (voice)
Dee Bradley Baker	...	Clone Troopers / Captain Rex / Cody (voice)
Tom Kane	...	Yoda / Narrator / Admiral Yularen (voice)
Nika Futterman	...	Asajj Ventress / Tee-C-Seventy (voice)
Ian Abercrombie	...	Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious (voice)
Corey Burton	...	General Loathsom / Ziro the Hutt / Kronos-327 (voice)
Catherine Taber	...	Padmé Amidala (voice)
Matthew Wood	...	Battle Droids (voice)
Kevin Michael Richardson	...	Jabba the Hutt (voice)
David Acord	...	Rotta the Huttlet (voice)
Samuel L. Jackson	...	Mace Windu (voice)
Anthony Daniels	...	C-3PO (voice)
Christopher Lee	...	Count Dooku (voice)

MPAA:

Rated PG for sci-fi action violence throughout, brief language and momentary smoking.

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS-ES | SDDS | Dolby Digital EX

Certification:

Hong Kong:I | Sweden:7 | Portugal:M/6 | Philippines:G (MTRCB) | South Korea:All | UK:PG | Malaysia:U | Brazil:Livre | Finland:K-7 | USA:PG | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Netherlands:6 | Singapore:PG | USA:PG CORRECT: REPLACE WITH: (certificate #44445) | Australia:PG | New Zealand:PG | Ireland:PG | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva)

Company:

CGCG

Trivia:

The official Star Wars website announced that the film will lead the way for a television series will debut in the fall of '08. The TV series will air on Cartoon Network, TNT, as well as CTV in Canada.

Quotes:

Ahsoka Tano: Great! You woke the baby!

Movie Connections:

Spin off Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) (VG)

If you liked Attack of the Cl...no wait...if you liked Caravan of Courage...

The film opens without the traditional scrolling prologue and is replaced by a transatlantic voice that would have been at home in a 1980's Saturday morning cartoon. From here we are thrown into episode 2.5 of the Star War saga. Without giving too much away about the plot: the acting and characters are wooden and two dimensional, even for a kids film (or for that matter a recent Star Wars film). The dynamic between Anakin Skywalker and his new sidekick, will grate on the nerves of anyone over the age of 8 years old. The stiff animation makes everyone come across as a cross between an action figure and a Thunderbird. Another problem is for a theatrically released film, it's "shot" (if you can call it that) in an almost camera-nailed-to-the-ground fashion. Compared to recent Pixar efforts, it looks about as cinematic as a midday tele-movie. The saving grace of this film are the fight scenes, which somewhat make up for the film failings everywhere else.

As a spin off from the Star Wars franchise it's OK at best, as a kids film there's much better, as a pilot episode to the upcoming cartoon series it's watchable and if compared to a direct to DVD Disney sequel, it's decent.