Thankfully didn't see the movie of this but...eh...Yoda looks iite. The white hair in the back of his head looks like an attachment to give your creature more stealth from Spore, though.

Hey, I saw the movie twice and frankly I really liked it. My son, who is 7, went with me both times and he LOVED it. Everyday since then he's asked "Today? Does the Star Wars show start today?"

So why did the movie not suck?
- It was fun, fast paced, and exciting
- I LIKE the dimwit battle droids. They crack me up.
- They really played up the "movie theater serial" thing
- The non-Williams music bugged me at first but eventually I came to enjoy it
- Biggest complaint was recycling lines from the movies
- Including Jabba and Tatooine AGAIN did NOT bug me. It worked!
- I liked his apprentice - she was cool - and it's fun to picture him killing her later - especially since they get along pretty darned well
- I still don't like the animation style but meh, I can live with it
- In a lot of ways it felt MORE like Star Wars than than Ep I-II-III did!! The banter, the action, the mix of hard sci-fi battles with space fantasy - all was very cool. Frankly Lucas could learn a thing or two from the folks who made this.

So to all those who have heard nothing but bad news about this movie and series, take it from this nerd that it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. In fact, if you go into it with the right attitude, odds are you'll really enjoy it!

bang.

Good luck Endroren, the general mood of readers of this site are anti-clone wars so you're not going to really convince anyone otherwise.

And yeah, I do see this as being a lot better on TV, namely due to pacing, quality of animation, and lowered expectations.

Not trying to convince anyone otherwise - I'm not up to that flame war and if someone doesn't like it they don't like it *shrug* - I'm just suggesting that folks like DKSP should form their own conclusions by actually watching it.

And frankly, here is all the evidence I need that the movie works...

I saw Star Wars when I was 6 and I've loved it ever since. I fondly remember racing through the isles of Toys R Us to find new Star Wars toys. It made me the geek I am today.

My 7 yr old son likes the original movies well enough, but it was the Clone Wars movie that sent him running from the theater, brandishing an "air-lightsaber" and running through the isles of Toys R Us to see if they had toys from the movie.

So, maybe all of us middle aged guys who sat around waiting 15 years for our first love to come back to us only to find that when she did, she didn't look half as pretty as we remembered her, will never be completely satisfied.

But for the next generation, the Clone Wars cartoon just might be their "first step into a larger world".

Listen to Endroren, he is the only sane person here.

Help me Tartakovsky, you're my only hope

Genddy Tartakofsky's work was good, but overall the series lacked a more human touch. This new series goes a little bit too far, making it a bit more goofy and juvenile. It's not bad, but Ahsoka and the battle droids just make me groan. The best way to enjoy the show is not to look at it from a moviegoer's point of view. I liked the animation, except when it tries to portray normal human interaction. And the bad guys don't really seem to have the most imaginitive schemes either.

("let's rip off some flying anteaters--BEFORE THE GOOD GUYS DO!! Then let's stand around until the Jedi get here! Now let's send some autistic battle droids to poke holes in spaceships for no reason! BWAH-HA-HA!!)

Then the Jedi masters FUCKING COMPLAIN about Anakin training Ahsoka! Dee-dee-dee!

As if that wasn't enough, at the beginning, the words at the bottom of the screen tell me it's available in HD! Son of a bitch! I have a basic fucking cable subscription! Why do you think I'm watching it in standard definition in the first place?!

...Other than that, it's pretty good.