When LucasFilm announced that they would launch their CG Clone Wars series with a film, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I was somewhat dismayed. No matter how they sold it, the film sounded more like a cash register than a spark of creativity.
But then the trailers, posters and clip began to arrive and, even with the film's interesting CG style, The Clone Wars looked pretty good. To put some icing on the hype, we were even given an early screening report that claimed the film returned to original Star Wars.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Reviews
While I hoped the latest official reviews for Star Wars: The Clone Wars would keep this positive ball rolling, we are now being told that the film is more of a series kick-off rather than a feature film.
Variety
"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" will serve its purpose as a quick fix for die-hard fans who simply can't wait for the new Cartoon Network show to debut on Oct. 3. This first theatrical production from Lucasfilm Animation purportedly reps a synthesis of the series' first three episodes - 30 installments are finished and at least 100 are planned -and there's little doubt this stuff will look more at home on the tube than it does on the bigscreen, since one thing is for sure: This isn't the "Star Wars'' we've always known and at least sometimes loved. Young kids will constitute the biggest audience for this Warner Bros. release - it's downright weird not to see the Fox logo on a ``Star Wars'' feature - while devotees old enough to have seen the originals on their first go-round will likely wait to check out this strip-mining of the cinema's most enduring mother lode at home.
TheHollywoodReporter
Situated chronologically between “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith” in the “Star Wars” saga, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” serves as the maiden voyage for Lucasfilm Animation, but despite the exclusively CG rendering, this anticipated new episode is at best a reasonable facsimile.
Frankly, given the newer installments’ increasing reliance on CG effects, the transition from live action to animation isn’t really all that dramatic -- and that’s part of the problem with the latest adventure.
Without the need for actual bodies and expensive sets, the sky truly was the limit for where the imagination could go here, but the largely uninspired “Clone Wars” feels landlocked.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars will hit theaters on August 15th.
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