The Clone Wars, Reviewed
Earlier, I promised a review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Here goes...
The Good
It goes without saying, but I'm a sucker for lightsabers and R2-D2. Plenty of both in this movie. The "vertical" battle on the side of mountain was totally cool. Whoever played Obi-Wan was dead ringer for Ewan McGregor. And I liked how they gave the clones a little personality; they seemed heroic. If they can develop that further in the series, it will add an extra wallop to Order 66 in Revenge of the Sith.
The Bad
Still a lot of cheesy, stilted dialogue coming out Lucasfilm these days. I will cut this movie some slack because it seems obviously aimed at a younger audience (the whole thing has very much a Saturday-morning-cartoon feel), but still--it doesn't need to be Shakespeare, it just needs to not induce cringing. Very little sense of urgency; of course you know that the heroes are going to make it, but you have create a least a little drama. Some parts of the plot painfully obvious, and some are needlessly complex.
The Ugly
An uncle of Jabba the Hutt as a drag queen in a seedy Coruscant nightclub? Really?
Overall
C+. Star Wars fans will have some fun; everybody else can skip it.