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17 out of 31 people found the following review useful:
Episode II is Shakespearean by comparison, 17 March 2009

Author: Andariel Halo (phenomynouss@hotmail.com) from Here

And I'm someone who up until a few months ago, still loved the new trilogy (mostly) and I still consider Revenge of the Sith to be on par with the original trilogy. I've read at least 100 Star Wars books, and a great many of the games. I realize there is a lot of crap under the banner of Star Wars. But... this series (and likely the movie as well) is a horrendous abomination.

The dialogue is beyond horrendous, and makes the most awkward "love" scenes in Episode II feel like the work of Shakespeare by comparison. It's worse even than typical children's' shows in that while it's obviously aimed for children, it's still unbelievably terrible, and so full of stupid puns and tired expressions and dull monotonous recitation of lines that I imagine even the target audience would be bored with these sequences, and fast forward through all but the battle scenes.

Jar Jar Binks is rendered pleasant in comparison to this Padawan girl that Anakin is inexplicably given to train (Jedi Knights do not train Padawans; only Masters) whose entire role consists of generic "tough girl" sassy quips and ridicule.

The 3D animation is what you'd expect from a LucasFilms budget, but perhaps to keep themselves linked with the much more successful (even though I hated it) Clone Wars micro-sodes by Genndy Tartakovsky, they retain the stupid shapes of people's heads that consists of various juxtapositions of gravity-defying squares, circles, and polygons. Count Dooku's beard looks like the triangular front-piece of an old-time freight train, and it looks stiff as metal, too.

The battle scenes would certainly be the highest appeal for children, but for the non-children watcher, even those are usually made a mess by the constant stale quips and jabbering between Obi-Wan and Anakin and That Annoying Girl being spoken/yelled at one another throughout an entire sequence.

Obviously the point of this series is to make an open-ended source of stories, no matter how stale or hackily written, to be exploited for episode fodder and money.

8 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
This is not the movie! Yes!, 12 October 2008

Author: gabrielmatosm from Venezuela

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Well, I'm a super Star Wars fan, but I'll be frank. I was very disappointed by the movie, much because I was expecting another epic Star Wars movie and also because of the acting... It was really annoying, especially Ashoka and the droids...

But now... Well, now it's different! OK, the battle droids are the same, but everything else has improved. The first two chapters are really good. We see real Jedi in action. First, Yoda (no more comments required) and then Plo Koon! He had never done anything before so he's very welcome.

I even want these chapters to be movie long! I hope to see more Jedis in action in the next installments and to keep up with the action! The Force is with this series!

11 out of 20 people found the following review useful:
Why another Clone Wars?, 12 March 2009

Author: Gregory from Estonia, Tallinn

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This is not the first Clone Wars series made by Lucas. He made one in 2003-05 with Cartoon Network and it was better than this. For one thing, it aired BEFORE Star Wars 3. Back then only Anakin, Yoda and Kenobi were immortal and there was some suspense. And the series was really short.

The only reason a remake could work is because Clone Wars takes up years of time and you can pretty much scribble any war story into it. The graphics changed to 3D to make scenes more detailed with less effort, but that's the only improvement.

I sometimes argue with the start quotes black and white narrow-mindedness. Hearing the narrator form the Powerpuff girls say something irrelevant or what we already know is irritating every time the episode starts. They made clones more humane and unique, and now I fail to see how order 66 will make sense (infact it will traumatize kids). R2 makes swiss army knife look like a bobby pin. Droids "Roger. Roger." is now out of faze with the rest of their speech, and personally they speak too much. Cannon fodder aim and armor are as useless as they ever were. Many soldiers (droid and clone) have delayed reaction before firing or running for cover. The way they fire at close range is as if they try to NOT hit the enemy. Hell, they can't even hit a slow battleship with another ships laser battery.

What got me was in the 2003 series general Grievous truly terrified with his first appearance, slaughtering a platoon of Jedi and leaving it in a cliffhanger. In fact Grievous could easily battle 2-3 Jedi at once going in at full power, never retreated, and his cough was mentally inflicted in the end of the series and right before SW3. Here he looks like a parody of a cowardly redneck with a scary bark who can't beat one kid with a sward. I used to love Grievous combat superiority, but now he is mush.

Honestly, republic swordsmen and separatist bankers make poor strategists, and it's clearly shown here. They slaughter their resources in head-to-head battles and then whine why they don't win. Lucas sacked his original adult fans to get a younger audience, but he looks like a grandpa trying to be cool, and became even lamer than before. There was even "parental guidance advised" (in a kids show?), yet no major change was visible. It's about time Lucas retired.

3 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Good for those who don't know Star Wars that well, 21 February 2012

Author: AdidasLoyalty from Ohio

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It's not a bad show, it's just for hardcore Star Wars fans it ruins everything. It seems like George Lucas just gave the writers to do whatever they want. Now all of a sudden what we know about Darth Maul is not true. Their wily nilly attitude about the Star Wars Universe have caused the greatest SW writer Karen Traviss to stop writing probably one of the best series in the Republic Commando. Her take on the Mandalorians (Boba Fett's people for those who don't know) is so much better than the Clone Wars version. Plus she actually got information from a actual sniper in the U.S. military for input and created a character after him.

3 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Not bad, 4 July 2011

Author: markostrljic

I'm a big star wars fan so i wanted to check this series. I could tell that it' pretty good. I mean of course i find droids conversations ridiculous, and immortality of few jedi's but in the end it's show for kids, so i guess it must be done that way. Personally the best thing in show are characters. Now we can see the wisdom of yoda (not in movies where he was just an action figure) and other jedi's, they finally introduce us with characters in SW prequels and show us they development. There are lot bad and good things about this show,there is no point of writing them all here. Just watch it by yourselves and then you will decide if it's a good or a bad show.

4 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
Star Wars The Clone Wars, 25 October 2010

Author: Lievenazerty from Belgium, Diskmuide

After seeing Star Wars The Clone Wars (movie) in theaters I was very disappointed. After the first few episode of the series I was very disappointed and lost all hope, man am I happy that I watched the fourth episode Rookies, after that one the series gained momentum, it became one of the best animated TV-series ever. Now were at the sixth episode of the third season, and I must say for one, the animation itself has really been upgraded, and the (dark) second season was really cool. The geonosis story-arc in the second season with spanned over five episodes was very cool and atmospheric. Of course the Jar Jar Binks episodes were not so great (to say the least), but those are three episodes stretched over three seasons, and he doesn't even make an appearance in the second season. I'm really interested to find out what happens to Ahsoka and Rex (Rex is my favorite character right now even though he didn't make an appearance yet in the third season). Ahsoka well, she started out annoying but she's growing up as a character. I really recommend seeing it.

4 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
As a time goes by it gets better, 4 April 2010

Author: jebaczelenekadulje from Croatia

Firs I was disappointed, but as a series goes by it gets better and better, or to say darker and darker. It is Star Wars for masses and young's, so some compromise has to bi done. Characters in the beginning where a little bit shallow but they evolve and develop, and also a connection between them grow deeper and deeper, new world emerge and some new location too, old repeat too, but wot would be Star Wars without all known places like Dantooine, Coruscant and other known worlds :-). Perhaps the villains may be a less shallow, but they are expendable so perhaps that is a reason why the authors did not lose to much time on building a deeper characters, but who knows may bi they will. To sum it all together, I like it now and hope to like ti to the end.

6 out of 11 people found the following review useful:
A most pleasant surprise, 26 November 2009

Author: Luka Kostic (fiddler_zg) from Croatia

As a SW fan, I was more than a little skeptical about this new animated Star Wars project. Mostly because of the poor movie-length prequel that I saw in the theaters, but also(admittedly) because of some prejudice about how good can a Star Wars project that is animated and is going to be aired on Cartoon Network be.

Thankfully, I was proved wrong. This series grew on me ever since the first episode. In fact, by the end of Season 1 I became a huge fan. The last couple of S1 episodes were pretty amazing. There is a LOT of character development, especially Anakin and Ashoka's relationship (Ashoka BTW grew to be a pretty awesome character, compared to the annoying Ashoka from the movie) and Anakin and Obi-Wan's relationship. The action scenes are great, and the scenery from the large amount of new SW worlds is nothing short of breathtaking. Actually, to my mind, some of the plot-lines were good enough, if not better, to be used in the Prequel Trilogy live-action movies. On the bad side, of course most of the actors from the prequels did not reprise their roles (although Matt Landler and James Arnold Taylor do a very good job of staying faithful to Christensen's and McGregor's portrayal of Anakin and Kenobi). Also, the animation seems a little stiff, especially considering the character's faces.

All in all, if you are a Star Wars fan, this is a MUST-SEE. If not, you may not be as interested, but still try and give a shot to this wonderful new series.

9 out of 17 people found the following review useful:
a pleasant surprise..., 8 October 2008

Author: petsound1966 from United Kingdom

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After hearing some of the reviews/ comments about the movie (which i have not seen) i was not looking forward to this at all.....

However i really enjoyed the first two episodes of the TV show. The action is dynamic, the characters seem well thought out (i was particularly pleased to see the return of the more eccentric Yoda we know and love from ESB in the first episode) and some of the set pieces are really good...although the battle droids are even more annoying than before (if that were possible)..

In short, far from the disaster I was anticipating and a worthy addition to the Star Wars canon...

Now this is more like it!, 5 May 2013

Author: Dball32 from Australia

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After a grueling work on the last three Star Wars films, 'Clone wars' has something new to offer. With the same old classical star wars tune and quite detailed animation, any science fiction lover will ADORE this!

Adding new characters, plots and enemies, this risky task fulfills, and surpasses in every way. Be surprised to see spectacular action with awesome effects, brilliant action chases, and so much more. Let your socks be blown off as you discover new planets and landscapes, traveling on for as far as the eye can see. With verbal headlines given at the start of each episode, you cant help but be enthralled by this classic animation.

The creators of this show obviously love the Star Wars films and show it by honoring the original sources. They haven't just gone off and copied stories from other shows, they built on material from the Star Wars films- and expanded. Obviously a lot of thought was put into this to make it entertaining, whilst also educating us on Star Wars itself.

Don't think that they've left out all of the old characters- as far as I can tell, they have included all of them back in- animated! So if your looking for a new adventure that doesn't waste time or money. Tired of same old, same old science fiction shows, try Star Wars: The Clone Wars, if it is not showing on your TV, then rent it out. You WILL NOT be disappointed!!

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