Post by neferetus on Aug 21, 2008 21:37:59 GMT -5
STAR WARS: The Clone Wars
While I have always enjoyed Star War movies in general, I am not a dye-in-the wool ‘Star Warrior ’ who sleeps with a stuffed Yoda on his bed. That being said, as I did not expect too much of the newest animated chapter in the series, STAR WARS The Clone Wars, I was not altogether disappointed. As a matter of fact, I kind of liked it.
The story is set at a time when young Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter ) is yet a good-guy Jedi knight. With the aid of the other Jedi knights, The Republic is trying to protect it’s frontiers from the evil Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) and his increasing minions on The Dark Side. As a matter of fact, the opening scene of the film shows Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor) and Anakin Skywalker (Lanter) in a battle with droids over a strategically coveted planet. Enter Ahsoka Tano, ( Ashley Eckstein) a feisty female youngling who‘s been assigned by Yoda (Tom Kane) to a reluctant Skywalker as his padawan ( Jedi apprentice.) It is around Asoka and Anakin that the main story focuses, as together they set off to rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hut, so as to assure the Hut’s much needed alliance with the Republic.
Padawan Ahsoka all but steals the show from Skywalker and Kenobi. With her hard-headed recklessness, Ahsoka is sort of a combination Luke Skywaker and Princess Leia from the original STAR WARS film. She gradually reveals her metal, by saving the life of her Master, Skywalker, time and again. The ’youngling’ is even forced to fight the evil Dark Mistress Asajj Ventress (Nika Futterman) in order to buy Skywalker some time. Senator Padme Amidala (Catherine Taber), meanwhile, also puts her neck on the line to save both Kenobi and Skywalker from the evil plans of Ziro, the Hutt, Jabba’s uncle.
For the dye-in the wools, there are walk-ons by those pint-sized desert scavengers, the jawas, Yoda (Tom Kane), R2 D2 , C-3PO (Anthony Daniels), Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson), Chancellor Palpatine (Ian Abercrombie), and Darth Sidious (also Abercrombie).
In spite of all the bad press it’s been getting from reviewers and the STAR WARS, crowd, my advice is to go ahead and enjoy STAR WARS: The Clone Wars for what it is: good, old-fashioned, action-packed escapist entertainment.
Sure beats the hell out of that much-publicized piece of crap TROPIC THUNDER, a film so full of vulgar language, racially demeaning jokes and alternate lifestyle pokes, while, in the same instance, bereft of plot, humor and good acting, that you are left wondering why actors of the calibre of Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Stiller would have anything to do with it in the first place. I mean it’s not like they were hard up for money, or anything. What a dog. I walked out ¾ through, something I haven’t done at a theatrical showing of a film in years.
While I have always enjoyed Star War movies in general, I am not a dye-in-the wool ‘Star Warrior ’ who sleeps with a stuffed Yoda on his bed. That being said, as I did not expect too much of the newest animated chapter in the series, STAR WARS The Clone Wars, I was not altogether disappointed. As a matter of fact, I kind of liked it.
The story is set at a time when young Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter ) is yet a good-guy Jedi knight. With the aid of the other Jedi knights, The Republic is trying to protect it’s frontiers from the evil Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) and his increasing minions on The Dark Side. As a matter of fact, the opening scene of the film shows Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor) and Anakin Skywalker (Lanter) in a battle with droids over a strategically coveted planet. Enter Ahsoka Tano, ( Ashley Eckstein) a feisty female youngling who‘s been assigned by Yoda (Tom Kane) to a reluctant Skywalker as his padawan ( Jedi apprentice.) It is around Asoka and Anakin that the main story focuses, as together they set off to rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hut, so as to assure the Hut’s much needed alliance with the Republic.
Padawan Ahsoka all but steals the show from Skywalker and Kenobi. With her hard-headed recklessness, Ahsoka is sort of a combination Luke Skywaker and Princess Leia from the original STAR WARS film. She gradually reveals her metal, by saving the life of her Master, Skywalker, time and again. The ’youngling’ is even forced to fight the evil Dark Mistress Asajj Ventress (Nika Futterman) in order to buy Skywalker some time. Senator Padme Amidala (Catherine Taber), meanwhile, also puts her neck on the line to save both Kenobi and Skywalker from the evil plans of Ziro, the Hutt, Jabba’s uncle.
For the dye-in the wools, there are walk-ons by those pint-sized desert scavengers, the jawas, Yoda (Tom Kane), R2 D2 , C-3PO (Anthony Daniels), Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson), Chancellor Palpatine (Ian Abercrombie), and Darth Sidious (also Abercrombie).
In spite of all the bad press it’s been getting from reviewers and the STAR WARS, crowd, my advice is to go ahead and enjoy STAR WARS: The Clone Wars for what it is: good, old-fashioned, action-packed escapist entertainment.
Sure beats the hell out of that much-publicized piece of crap TROPIC THUNDER, a film so full of vulgar language, racially demeaning jokes and alternate lifestyle pokes, while, in the same instance, bereft of plot, humor and good acting, that you are left wondering why actors of the calibre of Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Stiller would have anything to do with it in the first place. I mean it’s not like they were hard up for money, or anything. What a dog. I walked out ¾ through, something I haven’t done at a theatrical showing of a film in years.
