George Lucas captured lightning in a bottle with the original Star Wars trilogy, a franchise obsessively beloved by millions of fanboys (I’m one) for decades. New Star Wars is as beloved as New Coke and Crystal Clear Pepsi. The animated Clone Wars feature fits in between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith both in terms of continuity and quality. The plot is a needlessly complicated knot of storylines and is only there to service an endless string of action sequences. It’s a contrived and predictable mess with no reasons at all to become emotionally invested in any of the characters.
The action itself is simply empty noise and a relentless assault on senses too overwhelmed to comprehend what is actually happening on screen. The animation is as wooden as the awful dialogue. George Lucas, if you only knew the power of rewrites.
The Clone Wars version of Anakin shows no signs of eventually walking down the path of the Dark Side, but he’s still a better actor than Hayden Christensen. Younger Star Wars fans will be amazed by the eye candy, but this fanboy would rather be thrown into the Sarlacc Pit and slowly digested for over a thousand years.
Rating: * ½
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