Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

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 | 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:

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

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 (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
George Lucas	....	producer
Sarah Wall	....	associate producer
Catherine Winder	....	producer

Original Music by
Kevin Kiner

Film Editing by
Jason Tucker

Makeup Department
Aurora Bergere	....	makeup artist: Ahsoka

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
Russell G. Chong	....	designer
Matt Gaser	....	concept artist
Steward Lee	....	storyboard artist
Darren Marshall	....	designer
Justin Ridge	....	storyboard artist
Jerome Moo	....	concept artist (uncredited)

Sound Department
David Acord	....	sound designer
David Acord	....	sound editor
Sean England	....	foley artist
Sean England	....	foley 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
Matthew Wood	....	sound editor
Matthew Wood	....	supervising sound editor
Caroline Cannizzaro	....	foley recordist (uncredited)
Adam Davidson	....	adr recordist (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Ling Chen	....	digital compositor: Lucasfilm
Jon Childress Farmer	....	modeler
Matthew Cioffi	....	senior modeler
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
Justin Leach	....	model and rigging supervisor
Shawn Lovette	....	layout artist
Greg Maguire	....	research & development supervisor
Stephen Parker	....	pipeline supervisor
Mitch Paulson	....	second digital colorist: EFILM
Gregg Ricks	....	technical assistant
Steven J. Scott	....	supervising digital colorist: EFILM
Mark Therrell	....	character supervisor
Vincent Toscano	....	digital set supervisor
Dawn Turner	....	production manager
Paul Zinnes	....	digital set supervisor
Thomas Mathai	....	data manager (uncredited)

Animation Department
Lauren Balson	....	production coordinator
Rob Coleman	....	animation consultant
Ronan Debrun	....	additional animation consultant
Sylvain Doreau	....	layout artist
Jahkeeli Garnett	....	layout artist
Ryan Heuett	....	lead layout artist
Chieh Huang	....	layout artist
Kevin Jong	....	animation director
Danny Keller	....	additional animation consultant
Steward Lee	....	story artist
Sianoosh Nasiriziba	....	animator
Bosco Ng	....	story artist
Dan Sukiennik	....	layout artist
Le Tang	....	layout artist
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
Nic Raine	....	conductor
Nic Raine	....	orchestrator
Matthew St. Laurent	....	assistant music editor
Matthew St. Laurent	....	music programmer

Other crew
Cassandra Barbour	....	rights and clearances
Nancy Sandberg	....	lead production accountant
Laura Sevier	....	rights and clearances
John Singh	....	film publicist
Sandi Smith	....	production assistant
Nicole Vigil	....	production crew

Production Companies

• CGCG
• 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. Pictures (2008) (USA) (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)
• Argentina Video Home (2008) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2009) (Switzerland) (DVD)
• 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

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

Company:

CGCG

Trivia:

The ship Anakin takes from the landing platform on Teth is called The Twilight. It is an old Corellian G9 Rigger Freighter. Skywalker continues using the ship during the "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" (2008) series. Dave Filoni has stated that this finally gives some credit to Uncle Owen's claim that 'Luke's father was a navigator on a spice freighter' from Star Wars (1977).

Quotes:

Ahsoka Tano: Master Yoda has a saying: old sins cast longs shadows. Do you... know what he means by that?
Anakin Skywalker: He means: your past can ruin your future if you allow it. But you forget it was Master Skywalker who said: I don't want to talk about my past.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Big Bang Theory: The Lizard-Spock Expansion (#2.8)" (2008)

Damn good...if you know what you're getting into.

This film is gonna have two sets of detractors. One set will be of people dying to see George Lucas crash and burn because they didn't like the prequels. The other will be people who, regardless of their feelings about the previous movies will enter with an ill conceived expectation for a great story. The rest of you, like me will have a blast watching this thing.

This movie is basically an extended pilot for a soon to premiere animated series and it plays as such. We are introduced to our characters, some new and some old and watch them set out on missions that take them through hair raising battle after hair raising battle. There is no conclusion, yet no cliff hanger, just a solitary mission, another day in the lives of Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi. In other words, no attempt at any great earth shattering plot, just a lot of good solid action and fun. Whether or not the TV series will develop more complicated story arcs and sub plots is only known by its creators right now, but its the simplicity that works here. I went into this movie expecting nothing but big action, cool characters and a slick look, and that's exactly what I got. The heart of the Star Wars franchise has always been its fun, and this is a cartoon...they're taking advantage of the opportunity to take the explosive larger than life elements of the films and skew them to an altered animated reality...which is what makes cartoons worth watching.

I loved the design of the whole thing too. It is very graphic and unique and I can understand that it may not be everyone's cup of tea but for me it's a great look. In a time when movie theaters are saturated with CG animated fair, many of which are so concerned with out doing one another with their increasingly real skin textures and bump mapping, it's refreshing to see a film that wants to be different. If you want something to look real, you might as well get a camera. For those of you who thought this graphic simplistic look was some kinda time/money saver, give yourself a shake, they wanted it to look this way. And if you're an animator like myself...take note.

Bottom line, you're not gonna walk out of this movie a different person, and its not gonna win any awards...but it's a hell of a lot of fun.