Star Wars - The Clone Wars [2008] (DVD)

Great film- poor DVD! the film itself is great- for Star Wars fans and new comers to the saga. It has humour, action and adventure and has a unique animation style that makes it stand out from the crowd. I have been a Star Wars fan for years and enjoyed this as much as the prequels- It is MUCH better than The Phantom Menance! I was dissapointed with the DVD release as normally with Star Wars you get a quality product, but with this you don't even get an animated menu! The only extras are an audio commentry. If you compare this with the Blu Ray release its ridiculous! On there you get making of movies, character profiles, trailers, games...I'm not sure why they decided not to put this on the DVD, but I am deeply dissapointed. Save up and buy a Blu Ray player would be my advice!

George Lucas RIPPING OFF non blu-ray buyers Wow once again Lucas and his gang show their contempt for the average fan who will be buying this on DVD rather then blu-ray. What could have quite easily been a 2 disk release with many extras is just a bog-standard i disk release with little else but the film. Just look at the extras on the blu-ray version!!!! ok so some are geared towards blu-ray format only BUT many could have been put on another disk for the dvd buyers. Its pathetic and shows once again the thoughtless nature of the way Lucas and his pals release his works. If I want all the interesting extras I will have to buy a blue-ray player :(

We liked it I rented this film because of the negative reviews here. I will now be buying it. First of all, I had low expectations and was thus pleasantly surprised. I will keep this short. 1. The animation takes a bit of getting used to, but it works. 2. Action is super. Love the big battles, they keep you glued to the seat. 3. Annakin is much more likeable, not a snot-nosed, whiney little brat like in the prequels. He is an awesome Jedi in this and a good hero. 4. The sound, as expected from Lucas, is just mind-melting in surround. 5. Overall, likeable, entertaining, and a good film when removed from the Star Wars stigma of having to be epic.

brilliant introduction to star wars for the kids i grew up on star wars . i took my son ( 4 ) to see this film , he loved it and now is a fan and loves all things star wars related.

Not for Science Fiction, or Star Wars fans. I tried to open minded about this film when I first went to the cinema, determining that "I'm a star wars fan, and no matter how bad it is, it's still Star Wars." That feeling lasted about um... a second and a half from the start of the film. It started off fine with the, "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away." I smiled, prepared myself for the classic theme and it... never came. I had been told it was 'remixed' beforehand, but I was expecting something not too different, the new composer didn't even keep the first 4 notes. Then we move onto the 'Opening Crawl' - which didn't exist. Another staple of Star Wars, even found in the games, gone, poofed completely. It was replaced with a narrator speaking over a kind of WW2 'news reel'. A few minutes into it and already the film has lost all its feel of being Star Wars, by no doubt intentional design decisions. In my book, if the writers/directors/producers etctera intentionally changed something, and it turned out badly, it's still bad. It got worse, the opening battle could have potentially been something good and enjoyable to watch, instead it was as if it had been played in fast forward, I could almost imagine the 'Benny Hill' theme being played in the background. Admittedly, I was a bit biased towards the 'art style' before hand so I thought, if I'm going to write a review on it, I'll avoid mentioning it as it would be rather unfair and not truly neutral. So I will avoid commenting on it except to say, that it gets worse. When Supreme Chancellor Palpatine walked into a scene, his style was seemed to be entirely based on a... bobblehead toy. There is 'stylised' drawing (which I would define by the early 1990's Batman cartoons) and then there's 'caricature' - Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I felt was the latter. Additionally, the animation was jerky, possibly as a reference to the 'Thunderbirds' puppets. In my opinion, it didn't work, it just made it look even worse. The film is a childrens oriented film, and I'm perfectly happy to accept that. In honesty, this was the strongest part of the film. The new Padawan was someone that children could enjoy watching and identify with. There was even some humour involving her and "Stinky the Hutt" that could be enjoyed by the little 'uns. However, I think in trying to appeal to children, they actually managed to make the dialogue even worse than Attack of The Clones and going on to insult the intelligence of the kids in the audience to boot. A typical conversation, which was repeated several times in the films follows. Character A: "Jabba the Hutts son has been kidnapped." Character B: "The Jedi Order must go and rescue Jabba the Hutts son." Character A: "If the Seperatists rescue Jabba the Hutts son first we'll lose the war." Character A: "Then it's agreed, we must rescue Jabba the Hutts son from being kidnapped." While this conversation was on-going (and going, and going), the characters tones would randomly change from low to high to low again. I believe, when Obi-wan was speaking, this was an attempt to copy his voice from episode III, it didn't work. The only character that avoided this was the Padawan, Ashkoja, which, truth be told, made her scenes are more watchable than any others. Finally, a good word about it, scenes that didn't have any characters in them, for example space and 'landscape' scenes did look particularly good and demonstrate the potential for how enjoyable the film COULD have been. However, due to several strange, strange design decisions that seemed only to have been changed for the sake of being changed, I would recommend against even renting this film. If you must see it, wait for it to come on television.