Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

Director:

Dave Filoni

Writers:

Henry Gilroy (written by) &
Steven Melching (written by) ...
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Release Date:

15 August 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Clone | The Force | Army | Separatist | Droid

Awards:

1 nomination

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 / Fox (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)

Directed by
Dave Filoni

Writing credits
Henry Gilroy		(written by) &
Steven Melching		(written by) &
Scott Murphy		(written by)
George Lucas		(characters and universe)

Produced by
George Lucas	....	executive producer
Mary Maffei	....	line producer
Catherine Winder	....	producer

Original Music by
Kevin Kiner

Film Editing by
Jason Tucker

Makeup Department
Aurora Bergere	....	makeup artist: Ahsoka
Danny Wagner	....	makeup supervisor

Production Management
Julie Peng	....	production supervisor
Diana Tauder	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Dave Bullock	....	sequence director
George Samilski	....	sequence director

Art Department
James Beihold	....	development artist
Russell G. Chong	....	designer
Dave Filoni	....	development artist
Matt Gaser	....	concept artist
Thang Le	....	concept artist
Steward Lee	....	storyboard artist
Darren Marshall	....	designer
Kenard Pak	....	development artist (as Kenard W. Pak)
Sergio Páez	....	character designer
Justin Ridge	....	storyboard artist
Michael Rose	....	development artist
Jackson Sze	....	concept artist
Atsushi Takeuchi	....	development artist
Alexander Woo	....	development artist (as Alex Woo)
Jerome Moo	....	concept artist (uncredited)

Sound Department
David Acord	....	sound designer
Sean England	....	foley artist
Sean England	....	foley recordist
Dan Fontana	....	sound recordist
Zach Martin	....	sound mix technician
Cheryl Nardi	....	dialogue editor
Juan Peralta	....	sound mixer
Juan Peralta	....	sound re-recording mixer
Richard Quinn	....	foley editor
Ronald G. Roumas	....	re-recordist
Brian Seagrave	....	audio post-conform
Matthew Wood	....	sound editor
Matthew Wood	....	supervising sound editor
Caroline Cannizzaro	....	foley recordist (uncredited)
Adam Davidson	....	adr recordist (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Edward Chaplin	....	digital artist
Ling Chen	....	digital compositor: Lucasfilm
Jon Childress Farmer	....	modeler
Matthew Cioffi	....	senior modeler
Rony Edde	....	technical director
Chris Foreman	....	research & development: LAL
Matthew Gidney	....	visual effects supervisor
Andrew R. Harris	....	CGI and lighting supervisor (as Andrew Harris)
Tom Hendrickson	....	visual effects coordinator
Yun Jung Kim	....	texture artist
Muzaffer Korkut	....	visual effects artist
Justin Leach	....	model and rigging supervisor
Ming-Chia Lee	....	visual effects artist
Bonnie Lin	....	visual effects coordinator
Shawn Lovette	....	layout artist
Greg Maguire	....	research & development supervisor
Aung Min	....	lead digital artist: Lucas Film Animation Singapore
Bertrand Ong	....	digital artist supervisor
Stephen J. Parker	....	pipeline supervisor (as Stephen Parker)
Mitch Paulson	....	second digital colorist: EFILM
Gregg Ricks	....	technical assistant
Steven J. Scott	....	supervising digital colorist: EFILM
Mark Therrell	....	character supervisor
Sankar Thiyagarajan	....	visual effects artist
Vincent Toscano	....	digital set supervisor
Dawn Turner	....	production manager
Jeremy Yeo-Khoo	....	assistant technical director
Paul Zinnes	....	digital set supervisor
Thomas Mathai	....	data manager (uncredited)

Animation Department
Lauren Balson	....	production coordinator
Cece Chen	....	lighter and compositor
Rob Coleman	....	animation consultant
Ronan Debrun	....	additional animation consultant
Sylvain Doreau	....	layout artist
Ronny Gani	....	animator
Jahkeeli Garnett	....	layout artist
Juan E. Hernandez	....	story artist
Ryan Heuett	....	lead layout artist
Chieh Huang	....	layout artist
Kevin Jong	....	animation director
Rishi Kaul	....	animator
Danny Keller	....	additional animation consultant
Bryan Lee	....	animator
Steward Lee	....	story artist
Dani Morrow	....	layout artist
Sianoosh Nasiriziba	....	animator
Bosco Ng	....	story artist
Adam Schnitzer	....	layout supervisor
Yi-Kai Shieh	....	lighter and compositor
Lucifero Shih	....	animator
Dan Sukiennik	....	layout artist
Le Tang	....	layout artist
Eldred Tjie	....	modeler
Jesse Yeh	....	animation director

Casting Department
Jenn Berry	....	casting coordinator
Ellen Connell	....	casting coordinator (2008)

Editorial Department
Beth Dewey	....	digital intermediate producer
Mitch Paulson	....	colorist
Steven J. Scott	....	supervising digital colorist
Chris DeLaGuardia	....	color timer (uncredited)

Music Department
R. Orlando Duenas	....	music editor (as Orlando Duenas)
Mark Evans	....	music editor
Mark Evans	....	scoring mixer
James Fitzpatrick	....	orchestral contractor
Takeshi Furukawa	....	additional music arranger
Takeshi Furukawa	....	orchestrator
Mathias Hilger	....	music editor
Jan Holzner	....	scoring engineer
Kevin Kiner	....	conductor
Kevin Kiner	....	orchestrator
Dean Menta	....	music editor
Nic Raine	....	conductor
Nic Raine	....	orchestrator
Matthew St. Laurent	....	assistant music editor
Matthew St. Laurent	....	music programmer

Other crew
Cassandra Barbour	....	rights and clearances
Jane Bay	....	executive assistant: George Lucas
Heather Ann Brown	....	recruiting
Talon DeSoto	....	martial artist (as Daxton Edwards)
Sarah Lister	....	production assistant
Anne Merrifield	....	assistant: George Lucas
Meagan Miller	....	production support
Sarita Patel	....	executive assistant: George Lucas
Nancy Sandberg	....	lead production accountant
Laura Sevier	....	rights and clearances
John Singh	....	film publicist
Sandi Smith	....	production assistant
Maria Turnhout	....	martial artist
Nicole Vigil	....	production crew

Thanks
Lynn Bartsch	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Lucasfilm Animation
• Lucasfilm

Distributors

• Fox-Warner (2008) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• InterCom (2008) (Hungary) (theatrical)
• Karo Premiere (2008) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Sandrew Metronome Distribution Sverige AB (2008) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Village Films (2008) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. Entertainment Polska (2008) (Poland) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. Entertainment (2008) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2008) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2008) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2008) (UK) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2008) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• Argentina Video Home (2008) (Argentina) (DVD)
• RTL Entertainment (2010) (Netherlands) (TV) (RTL7)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Canada) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2009) (Switzerland) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Germany) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Germany) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Sweden) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Sweden) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)

Special Effects

• CGCG (animation production services)
• Lucasfilm Animation Singapore (additional animation material)

Other Companies

• City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus  music performed by (as City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
• EFilm  digital intermediate (as EFilm Digital Laboratories)
• Entertainment Clearances  rights and clearances
• Kicks Martial Arts  martial arts consulting
• L.A. Studios, The  dialogue recording services
• Skywalker Sound  post-production sound services
• Sony Classical  soundtrack
• Technicolor  release printing

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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:

SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG (certificate #44445) | Finland:K-7 | UK:PG | Ireland:PG | Australia:PG | Netherlands:6 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:All | Brazil:Livre | Portugal:M/6 | Hong Kong:I | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Malaysia:U | Sweden:7 | Philippines:G (MTRCB) | New Zealand:PG | Spain:7 | Peru:PT | Argentina:Atp | Germany:12 | Mexico:A | Canada:PG (Ontario)

Company:

Lucasfilm Animation

Trivia:

The first animated 'Star Wars' feature film in theaters.

Quotes:

Darth Sidious:Soon the Jedi will not only be at war with you, Count, but the Hutt clan as well.

Movie Connections:

References Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Next Star Wars sequel, I pretty much can guarantee, we're going to just see George Lucas playing with his Star Wars action figures

I had absolutely no interest in seeing Star Wars: The Clone Wars from the first time I saw the trailer, I just couldn't believe my eyes, has George really sunk this low? It's bad enough that we had a really shaky sequel from him and director legend Steven Spielberg that brought us Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, you could tell at that point already, that was more for money than for the fans. Now we have Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I remember the first time I saw the original Star Wars, I was a little girl, I watched it with my dad, now this was back in 1989 when I was 4 years old, but there was something so magical about that movie that I still enjoy watching it from time to time, and it wasn't animated. Now we have the animated Star Wars that was definitely more aimed for the little one's than the adults or die hard fans of the famous trilogy. I don't know what to say to George other than, please, don't do this, you've done so well, quit while you're ahead of the game.

As the Jedi Knights prepare for the battles of the galaxy, Anakin Skywalker is assigned to train Ahsoka Tano, who wants to be a Jedi. They are both assigned to get Jabba the Hut's infant son who has been kidnapped by the Separatists who are setting the Jedi's up to make it look like they were the one's who kidnapped Jabba's son and are trying to kill him. Anakin and Ahsoka have only one chance to fix this while trying to save Jabba's son and figure a way to convince Jabba that they are not at fault, Anakin must face off with Captain Rex to regain his trust back with Jabba.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars isn't by any means a bad movie, but if you are going to line it up with the other Star Wars movies, oh, yeah, it will disappoint you. Like I said, this was more for the kids, not to mention, I think George is just doing whatever he can to leak the Star Wars franchise for all it's worth. But in my opinion, I will always love to watch the three original Star Wars movies, the prequels, I did like the Syth, but like I said, the first three have that special touch that will never be matched up with any of these recent Star Wars movies, but of course if you are a die hard fan, I know you will see this, otherwise I'll say stick with a matinée or go for the rental, this was a flop compared to what it should have been, nice try, George, we didn't buy it this time.

5/10