Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

Director:

Dave Filoni

Writers:

Henry Gilroy (screenplay)
George Lucas (characters and universe)

Release Date:

15 August 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights struggle to maintain order and restore peace...

Plot Keywords:

Star Wars | Apprentice | Good Versus Evil | Jedi | Sequel

US Showtimes:

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Cast

Matt Lanter	...	Anakin Skywalker (voice)
Ashley Eckstein	...	Ahsoka Tano (voice)
James Arnold Taylor	...	Obi-Wan Kenobi / 4-A7 / Medical Droid (voice)
Dee Bradley Baker	...	Clone Troopers / Captain Rex / Cody (voice)
Tom Kane	...	Yoda / Narrator / Admiral Yularen (voice)
Nika Futterman	...	Asajj Ventress / Tee-C-Seventy (voice)
Ian Abercrombie	...	Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious (voice)
Corey Burton	...	General Loathsom / Ziro the Hutt / Kronos-327 (voice)
Catherine Taber	...	Padmé Amidala (voice)
Matthew Wood	...	Battle Droids (voice)
Kevin Michael Richardson	...	Jabba the Hutt (voice)
David Acord	...	Rotta the Huttlet (voice)
Samuel L. Jackson	...	Mace Windu (voice)
Anthony Daniels	...	C-3PO (voice)
Christopher Lee	...	Count Dooku (voice)

MPAA:

Rated PG for sci-fi action violence throughout, brief language and momentary smoking.

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA | Singapore

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Certification:

Ireland:PG | South Korea:All | Netherlands:6 | Australia:PG | Singapore:PG | USA:PG | Finland:K-7 | UK:PG

Company:

Lucasfilm Animation

Trivia:

When Ahsoka is addressing the clones in the hanger bay a pink droid is standing next to R2-D2. This droid's name is R2-KT and was included as a way to honor the work of the 501st Legion (an international group of Star Wars costumers who perform countless hours of volunteer work for many charities). The droid was created in the memory of Katie Johnson (daughter of the 501st Legion's founder Albin Johnson) who died of cancer at the young age of 7. Some of the costumer's built a pink R2 (dubbed R2-KT) for Katie to provide her comfort in the last days of her life. This was to reflect the scene in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) when R2-D2 watches over Padme while she slept at night.

Quotes:

Ahsoka Tano: Great! You woke the baby!

Movie Connections:

Spin off Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) (VG)

Definitely not in the league of the other 6 films...

I went to go see a special screening today at 1:00 at the Mainside theater in Camp Pendleton. My little brothers, 5 and 4, were very excited because they are huge Star Wars fans. I guess you could say I was excited too. Well, I did not know what I was going to expect, since this was the first animated Star Wars. First I must say this was not as grandeur as the other Star Wars, but I am pretty sure that it wasn't meant to be. And I know that this movie is going to kick off the new 100 episode cartoon. I was a little disappointed that they had new voice overs such as the one for Kenobi and Skywalker, however the new voice over for Kenobi is hard to tell that it is different. For Anakin, however, I did not think that there could be a more annoying voice than Hayden Christensen. YOu actually are going to miss Christen's voice. But I tried to not pay attention to that, which was very distracting, and focus on the whole picture, the plot. In my opinion, the plot was too simplistic for a Star Wars film because the whole entire movie is about Anakin and his new padawan, I forget her name, trying to rescue Jabba the Hutt's son. Thats it. Kenobi and Yoda are barely in the film. I loved the fight scenes and the ones at the end definitely pulled the movie up. And the grand scale scenes were pretty impressive. I wasn't too impressed with some the humor they tried to pull off. I mean some of the slapstick comedy sucked so bad that I almost wanted to leave ethe theater. there were some humorous moments that actually made me chuckle a bit but most of the comedy was meant for kids younger than 10 years old. Great movie for the little kids and people that are going to watch the TV series but you need to be a true Star Wars fan to love this movie.