Anyone hear about this movie? It's out next month, and it takes place between the second (Attack of the Clones) and the third movie (Revenge of the Sith). It's the first Star Wars movie since Revenge of the Sith in 2005, and it's a project by George Lucas himself. It is a preview, or an introduction, if you will, to a series scheduled to run on Cartoon Network in the near future. Sadly, the only original voices are Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee, for Mace Windu and Count Dooku, respectively.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv_ZHBkkBGY

Website: http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/site/index.php

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I saw the preview during Hellboy II. Looks pretty good.
I'm pretty sure Lucas will probably stick with an animated format for any Star Wars film in the future.

I love star wars, Ill check this one out even though none of my friends will.

Since it's Star Wars everyone in my apartment will have to go check it out, me being no exception.

till now, this seems like a movie adaptation of the miniseries of the same name.

The "mini series" that began its run on Cartoon Network back in 2003 is not by Lucas himself, although he did give his permission to make it. Lucas will be lauching his own animated show right after the movie premieres. Also, the first show was atrocious, and I have no doubts that this next show is going to be much better. It certainly looks a lot better than the Cartoon Network show.

Anyone hear about this movie? It's out next month, and it takes place between the second (Attack of the Clones) and the third movie (Revenge of the Sith). It's the first Star Wars movie since Revenge of the Sith in 2005, and it's a project by George Lucas himself. It is a preview, or an introduction, if you will, to a series scheduled to run on Cartoon Network in the near future. Sadly, the only original voices are Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee, for Mace Windu and Count Dooku, respectively.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv_ZHBkkBGY

Website: http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/site/index.php

Screen shots:





I'm pretty sure that Anthony Daniels and the guy that plays General Greivous do voices in this film.

The "mini series" that began its run on Cartoon Network back in 2003 is not by Lucas himself, although he did give his permission to make it. Lucas will be lauching his own animated show right after the movie premieres. Also, the first show was atrocious, and I have no doubts that this next show is going to be much better. It certainly looks a lot better than the Cartoon Network show.

i for one liked it.
sure, there were some episodes that could have cut the chatter and begin the slice and dice, but still, it was an overall ok series to me.

the TV show will be done in the same style and everything, this is pretty much the first few episodes of the TV Show only they made it into a film.

I am really excited about this show. I've searched around, and actually foudn three different trailers/teasers.

I love Star Wars and I like the peculiar style of the cartoons, so I'm bound to enjoy this movie. :D Can't be any worse than the Christmas Holiday Special, right?

I love Star Wars and I like the peculiar style of the cartoons, so I'm bound to enjoy this movie. :D Can't be any worse than the Christmas Holiday Special, right?


Or the Ewok Adventure for that matter....

doubt anything could be worse then those

i think that george lucas just cant accept that star wars is over

their ships cant travel through space.

VWOOOOP VWOOOP

I went to see the film during my lunch break earlier and on the whole I must say it was very enjoyable.

There were a few things that I found a little hard to like at first such as a Star Wars movie that does not start with the Fox fanfare and the text crawl is actually spoken which is a little jarring. Also the music did not say Star Wars to me as it was largely just generic rock which whilst it ramped up the excitement in places just seemed out of place when one of the classic tunes kicked in.

Possibly the biggest issue with it was there was no sense of danger as we already know that every character in the show will survive which does greatly reduce the impact of the numerous and impressive looking battles.

I was concerned that I would find the little Padawn girl reaching Ewok levels of annoyance but whilst her little pet names for Anakin and Artoo were grating listening to the laughter from the children in cinema it soon became obvious that she is not meant for me and from then on she became much easier to live with.

This may seem like I found a lot of things wrong with it, but really all of these are fairly major and I would heartily recommend the film to anybody with a love of Star Wars or young children (wait that sounds wrong, I meant people with young children, not people with a love of young children!) and I certainly intend to go again tomorrow.

This film is boring as hell. It seemed to drag on forever. Sure, there were action bits but they had no palpable excitement or tension. You never felt anyone was in any kind of danger at all. I guess the lack of actual John Williams music or anything of similar nature in it's place throughout most of it only added to that. The big problem for me overall though is that I felt the plot was just ridiculous. THE JEDI RESCUE JABBA THE HUTT'S SON. Surely the most integral part of the Clone Wars, supposedly one of the biggest parts of the Star Wars Universe's history! YEAH, I WAS ENTHRALLED. What a great way to show a grand conflict! The first Super Mario Bros game feels more epic and it's essentially the same fucking story.

There was terrible dialogue, ridiculous situations such as Jedi not seeing a platform they need to get to until a page or two of dialogue later when it's pointed out to them by a much inferior being even though IT'S RIGHT ACROSS FROM THEM and a 1st day padawan just as adept at taking out enemies as her master, incredibly rigid lightsaber battles, a metrosexual Hutt character that talks like Cow from Cow & Chicken, a lot of standing around and looking at the enemy in the beginning battle, etc.

I just could not wait for it to be over. Problem is, when it did finally end, I was like WHAT THE FUCK? It just cut off, there was nothing that felt like any sort of climax what so ever. Regardless of me writhing about in my seat wanting the suffering to end, it turns out I wasn't even in there that long. I had time to leave the theater, talk to two guys about what they thought about it for a bit, go to Wal-Mart and look around and it was still only two hours after the movie started once I headed home!

It seems like they went for the balance between adult fans and kids, there's some cursing, some troopers getting taken out fairly brutally, plenty of venom in Asajj Ventress' portrayal, etc, but for me it just felt so flat. I guess kids will like the baby Hutt and the young padawan girl, will probably go nuts for the action too. As an older fan - there's stuff in there that was cool to see, but most of my gripes are as a fan of movies in general rather than Star Wars.

It just didn't seem...cinematic. I don't see how it was an effectively told story. It's a glorified rescue mission that would have been better told in a ten frame comic strip on the back of a cereal box. Imagine if in A New Hope, Princess Leia was just the baby daughter of a background character and that once they freed her - it ended right there, with no Death Star attack or the ceremony at the end. Rather than a full story with any hint of importance or weight at all, it felt like a really pointless wank of the old cash cow udders, let's squeeze dem bitches dry!

I guess the message was sent out to my town ahead of time, because it had to have been the weakest midnight opening I've ever seen - there was no more than 10 people.

It's funny that a lot of my complaints are people's usual complaints about the live prequels, but I honestly think all of that is much worse this go-round. However - if it hadn't been a theatrical release I wouldn't have so many negative things to say really. I just don't see how they thought this needed to be a MOVIE you know? It doesn't feel like an important part of the overall story.

The general response so far has been lackluster at best, even with a rating in the low 20s at Rottentomatoes. Regardless, I welcome anyone to check it out for themselves. I'm sure everyone will have a different experience with it though. Despite me feeling it dragged on, the two guys I talked to thought it was too fast.Some will enjoy this, and I hope they do, but I personally expected so much more than I was given.

EHHHHHH. Should have gone straight to DVD. Gendy Tartakovsky's version (the shorts on Cartoon Network in 03) was way better.

I'd rather wait for the dawn of a sequel star wars (VII, VIII and IX). Or alternatively wait for a remake of the original trilogy.

As a stand-alone movie it doesn't really work, but as a TV pilot I thought it was excellent. The use of vocal narration rather than text seemed a bit off, but I assume the series will be doing that regularly, so I'll get used to it. That's my only real gripe. Otherwise, I loved it and I'll admit I had a big, goofy grin the whole time I was watching. I'm a Star Wars junkie and a cartoon junkie, so a Star Wars cartoon? I'm psyched.

As long as George Lucas is alive we will never see any sequels.

The Baby Hutt is just for the opening arc of the TV series which they made into a film. Don't expect anymore of it when the series starts in October.

The opening narration was meant to be like the old WW2 news reels that would air in theaters. same style and everything

Star Wars isn't dead, it will live on threw books, Video Games and TV shows, don't expect anymore movies though unless they are animated.

the only things they can do with star wars movies is to connect the time gaps between movies.

I agree with everything Ktulu said. I was so disappointed by this incredibly horrible movie.

Also, you don't even get to see Yoda fight. Wth?

wait for the animated series starting in October on TNT and the Cartoon Network in the US. A lot more stuff we didn't have in the Pilot Movie

The mp3 of the Clone Wars
http://galactic-voyage.com/Music/The%20Clone%20Wars%20Soundtrack/