Imserba Webstore - Star Wars: The Clone Wars (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: Blu-ray EAN: 0883929036516 Format: AC-3 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: 2008-11-11 Running Time: 98 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: It is what it is..... Comment: OK. Let's face it. MOST people are downing The Clone Wars because it just doesn't live up to the rest of the Star Wars saga. In that respect, the public is 100% correct. Now, let's take The Clone Wars for what it really is. It is merely a feature-length prelude to the kid-friendly animated TV series on Cartoon Network; nothing more, nothing less. Even George Lucas himself admitted in an interview that the Clone Wars feature film was pretty much "an afterthought" after he viewed the dailies from the actual TV show. I, for one, felt that the animation was quite beautiful and pleasing to the eye as far as the backgrounds and layouts were concerned. Yes, the characters did appear to be too rigid and expressionless and everyone's hairstyles appeared to be molded from Play-Dough, but overall, the animation was quite nice; maybe not state-of-the-art, but still quite enjoyable. Also, it is true that the plot was rather thin, but remember Lucas' target audience for this film and the TV series; kids and pre-teens. My five-year-old loved it and I enjoyed watching it with her. Compared to the actual movies, however, it does leave you kind of flat. Even Genndy Tartakovski's 2004 Clone Wars traditional animated series was vastly superior to this film, but you have to keep in mind the fact that the 2004 series was aimed at a more mature audience (teens and adults IMHO). Will I watch the series on Cartoon Network? If I'm home and there's nothing else on or nothing else better to do, sure. If not, oh well, no big loss. I won't make it a point to tune in. So, take this film for what it is; a kid-friendly chapter in the Star Wars prequel saga; just don't expect to experience that same thing that the films offered and you will enjoy it. Customer Rating: Summary: Two and half stars in a Galaxy Far Far Away Comment: Star Wars Clone Wars is the pre-emptive effort to do two things; Capitalize on Star Wars a movie franchise and to send out a major introduction to the Star Wars animated series on Cartoon Network. Clone Wars relies on the fact that the audience who loved the latest trilogy will really like this version of Star Wars, and they probably do. It's full of action and light hearted jokes and some hip dialogue that only young people use. The movie starts strong, with a great action sequence with Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi defending a city from the droid army under Count Dooku. The plot extends to show Dookus plan to kidnap Jabba the Hutt's son in order to frame the Jedi and win favor for shipping routes in the outer rim. As it moves on the movie keeps its pace and is entertaining, but somewhere in the middle they seemed to realize they forgot about Queen Amidala and new story line is born. This seems to drag the movie down and slow the pacing. Not that it's a bad story line but it's not integrated well and things kind of deteriorate. The animation is strange at first, it looks like the characters are all carved from wood, but you get used to it after a while and realize it's very good. In all, it's a decent movie. There weren't any high expectations, it's Star Wars after all. I will say that in many respects as far as dialogue and acting go, it's quite surpasses the live movie trilogy. I think good old Uncle George (Lucas) doesn't realize that the die hard fans from the original trilogy aren't that interested in the Adventures of Anakin during the Clone Wars once we found out how he because Darth Vader. This movie is good rental and a decent venture in an official Star Wars movie that WASN'T directed by Uncle George, who seems to have lost touch with the original audience of his success. I can only hope that he will let more young directors take the helm and writing duties for future projects. There is a lot of talent out there who adore the original trilogy and the basics of the new stories that could breath serious life into the franchise. Customer Rating: Summary: Better than I thought it would be Comment: So, I saw this originally in the theater. I mean, it's Star Wars, you have to experience Star Wars in the theater. I can now say I've seen every movie in said way (going back to '77). I went into it with no preconceived notions about it, only that it was a new Star Wars movie. I never saw a trailer or anything for this. It was something I started when the prequel came out. I wanted to know nothing about the movies before seeing them. So, ok, this was just an excuse to make a movie. The plot is cellophane thin. I am actually all right with that. The action scenes SCREAM Star Wars, Anakin and the other main characters are fleshed out a little more, and it is all in all good fun. It is geared for a younger audience, but so were all the others. Ahsoka is great. Even at her tender age, she is able to keep up with the likes of the Chosen One. Yes, there are certain characters that don't necessarily fit in with what most of us see as the Star Wars universe (Rotta, Ziro) but it was necessary for what story line there is. All in all, I enjoyed watching this and YES I do own this on DVD. I haven't been able to catch the series yet on Cartoon Network, but based on the movie (weak storyline and all), it has potential to expand, in a good way, the Star Wars Universe. Customer Rating: Summary: Kids enjoyed it Comment: Its not that this is a bad movie but as a 26 year old man with a love for Star Wars I really didn't enjoy this movie that much. In fact, I dont see why there was a theater release b/c it looks more like direct to video. I got the blu ray and was hoping for good bells and whistles but I wasn't impressed. The audio quality I found was kind of a let down even though lightsabers usually sound about the same but on blu ray you kind of expect more. I don't know anything about the series coming out and perhaps if I did I would have enjoyed it more. I did notice Obi Wans beard looked like he took square blocks and glued them around his face. I did like seeing the clone troopers since the new movies didn't go too deeply into their squad tactics. I was hoping for more clone fights and battles though. Seeing them in action, even though it was cartoon like was nice. I did think the story was relatively pointless and didn't make me get to the end and say "man that was pretty good". Weird seeing the WB logo and no Star Wars intro at the beginning just the name of the movie. I found a lot of the Star Wars music was missing in fact all of it was but you could tell it was Star Wars for the most part. The humor of the droid army and pretty much the whole movie was more directed toward a younger audience which was o.k. My three year old daughter has autism and she gets a kick out of watching movies with flare and vivid colors. This movie had that in the battle scenes and I could tell that though she can't talk her excitement showed clearly. She doesn't know whats going on but she has a rare taste in these movies and even though she doesn't watch it like me I know she liked it. At 1st I couldn't get her to watch the movie all she would do is lay in her bed and look at the movie case. After that I think she got curious about what the case was and that was my five star rating, seeing her enjoyment. I watched Star Wars a lot when I was little and its great to see a new generation enjoying it hence my five star rating. Since as far as I know the Star Wars saga is over I hoped this movie had been better. It didn't really hurt the series but it didn't really add much to it. Not the worst movie but not the best so I guess I would say it was o.k. Customer Rating: Summary: Maybe this should have been left untold Comment: Call me a purist, call me unwilling to accept change. I still feel this (and the subsequent tv series) are boring and actually quite...well juvenile. WHile it is exciting to see the stories we never knew, the fact that we know the outcome makes them hard to be engaged in. Everytime the republic enters a battle, while they may win the battle, we know that eventually the war will be 'lost'. To also add elements of the original trilogy into this prequel story line lessens the impact. 'your father was a great jedi knight'... but no where does it mention him having a padwan. That totally useless side story adds absolutely nothing to the movie arc...in fact, it lessens anankin's ferocity. to leave him without a padwan and constantly have him be encouraged to take one would have been a better subplot. And PLEASE... the whole JABBA's SON story line is beyond ridiculous. Lucas should have left the stories to the books. This movie and the series detract from the movie series.
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