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Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

2008
Sci-fi, Action
1h 38m
The Clone Wars are raging between the Separatists and the Galactic Republic. When Jabba the Hutt's son is taken by a group of renegades, two Jedi are summoned to investigate.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars

2008
Sci-fi, Action
1h 38m
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Rated 20 Dec 2015
28
7th
A videogame somehow accidentally released as a film.
Rated 19 Nov 2008
54
10th
The animation is worse than Toy Story, and that was made thirteen years ago, you would think a big name like Star Wars would demand enough respect to have more effort put into it than into cooking ramen noodles. That aside, the plot is forgettable and bland, and the dialog is terrible. Do not watch this unless you are a die hard Star Wars fan, and are under the age of ten.
Rated 02 Feb 2010
54
20th
Yes, yes, this was terrible. I'm not making any excuses for it. But in my initial review for this, a decade ago, I said that introducing characters was a terrible idea. I was wrong. The Clone Wars cartoon series that this terrible film spawned was actually fucking baller. And I don't think there is a Star Wars character I like more than Ahsoka Tano. So, yeah, go watch this terrible movie. Suffer through it for the payoff of the TV series. So, so worth it in the end.
Rated 16 Aug 2008
60
20th
I really loved the animation style and wanted to like the movie. But once the characters start to speak, you realize this was written by complete fools... or maybe I'm just not in the target demographic. It is really shame when watching the movie you realize how rich the Star Wars universe is and then they use it make this non-sense story.
Rated 26 May 2019
51
23rd
Perhaps had I seen this before the TV series I might have gotten more out of it. But, I hadn't. So I didn't. Poodoo (but still Star Wars so it gets a pass, barely.)
Rated 24 May 2010
20
1st
A broken heart speaks here. it reminded me of going to a Bob Dylan concert: it killed idols. Seriously, I knew it wouldn't be a huge success, but I thought as a fan that I should see it. Well you shouldn't clearly. From the introduction on it's very clear the whole thing is heading in the wrong direction. And the music doesn't have anything to do with Star Wars. 20 points for because I saw lightsabers, Yoda and a bunch of nicely animated action scenes.
Rated 24 Jun 2009
10
2nd
Not only is it disappointing, uninspired and banal, it's simply one of the worst films ever made. An abhorrent, unbearable, soul-crushingly-bad monstrosity of cinema vomited out of the most putrid bowels of Hell; a constant assault on the eyes, ears, mind, and possibly soul. Stay away.
Rated 27 Dec 2008
51
27th
Terrible dialogue, and the animation tries too hard to look like the cartoon. Either make it a cartoon or make it look semi-decent. The ship animations are evidence enough that they could have done the character rendering better. The script has a good plot, but as I said before the dialogue is total crap. Could have been really good if handled more professionally. Needs a stronger ending.
Rated 24 Feb 2010
0
0th
The Star Wars I knew and loved is dead, and this shit has taken it's place. I hated the prequels but at least the third one had some moments to make you think Lucas was trying to come to his senses. Then this crap comes out and we are given a 100 minute toy commercial a horrible plot. In fact, if you watched your kid play with Star Wars toys you'd probably be more entertained than watching this garbage.
Rated 11 Oct 2008
40
12th
The problem is not that it's childish or whatsoever. The production values are unbelievably low, the voice casting is terrible for starters. The plot is sickening, the jokes which Anakin and his new padawan crack every 2 minutes are awful, distracting and completely misguided. Nothing good about story-wise, adds nothing interesting to the SW universe but takes so many away. The desing is good but it doesn't flow as an animation should.
Rated 05 Nov 2008
30
20th
Not as bad as expected. The story is ok. And the Star Wars universe is always great. The dialogue however is even worse than in episode II. And the humor is so awful I almost had to stop the movie. It seems odd the movie is placed somewhere between episode II and III.
Rated 29 Jun 2010
67
58th
Many people thought it was bad for the theaters but it was just to start the new franchise series on TV and the best way of getting people to know about it is to put it in the theater.
Rated 13 Mar 2009
5
1st
Ugly Animation And Completely Stupid
Rated 17 Nov 2014
20
22nd
As a pilot for a Saturday morning kids' serial, it's not bad. As a cinematic release it's trash. It poops on a lot of the canon and has no continuity with the movies, which I don't mind as long as it does it in an interesting way. But this just takes the same lame plotting, paper-thin characters, stilted unactable dialogue and gratuitous-to-the-point-of-boring action sequences and does them all in cartoon form. A small plus, the Anakin in this has more movement and humanity than the movie one.
Rated 02 Sep 2008
61
12th
Too much in common, dialogue-wise, with the last 3 films. It should appear somehow more acceptable in animation, but somehow it's not: extremely tin-eared, clunky, cheesy and groan-worthy. The animation is not for everyone: blocky and stiff, it resembles video games and Lego far too much for my taste. Biggest flaw: we've seen all this before 150 times. Makes you all too aware that we are being told the same exact bed-time story yet again. Far more of a checklist than a story. And I'm a fan!
Rated 17 Aug 2008
45
29th
A Saturday morning cartoon mixed in with Star Wars. The animation is good, but the dialogue is terrible and sounds like is was written by a child. But if you put that aside, it really isn't that bad and has great battle scenes, and a fairly decent plot. Not as bad as people say it is.
Rated 30 Aug 2008
20
5th
I knew this was gonna be bad when it didn't have the iconic star wars scrolling intro. I mean the video games even have it but this movie did not? The animation was weak. The music was pretty good but the audio mixing all together was terrible, the voices especially. They introduced 3 big characters which don't appear or are even get mentioned in the other films. The story was just a dumb kids story. Besides a few good action scenes, and the clone troopers being totally bad ass, bad movie...
Rated 16 Feb 2009
45
31st
Do not add anything of great to the general plot. It is sad to see that one of the coolest sagas, became an animation so common, no major attractions.
Rated 27 Dec 2015
60
47th
I expected something much worse and watched it just to begin with the series (and so, considering it just a pilot more than a threatrical experience). Though it has a lot to improve and has a childish target in mind (yet, I find Episode I more childish), the introduction of Ahsoka character (that even helps finding Anakin less anoying) is hard to ignore as a great idea and an interesting female character to younger audiences that usually lack that kind of roles.
Rated 01 Feb 2016
54
22nd
Overall, really feels like a Saturday morning cartoon. The score particularly bugged me, and just reinforced my belief in how crucial John Williams was to the greatness of Star Wars.
Rated 27 Oct 2012
42
6th
Didn't add too much to what we already know about Star Wars. Plot line takes place between 2-3. Good action. Adds a character who we never see in episode 3. Only major annoyance we see the same scene of yoda arriving with clone back up 2x here when we already saw it in one of the original movies.
Rated 14 Mar 2010
78
15th
Love the animation and the fact that its star wars. Only prob is the script, as some of the lines are "eh", but its geared to a younger audience so its acceptable.
Rated 05 Mar 2009
22
7th
They even ballsed up the theme tune for christ's sake.
Rated 02 Apr 2009
35
18th
It looks gorgeous but the acting and dialogue are terrible.
Rated 22 Nov 2008
30
4th
the over 10 year olds hated it - I hated it - the 5 year old loved it!!!
Rated 22 Aug 2011
75
50th
Decent enough, full of action and interesting combination of different Star Wars characters. The one thing the early movies have succeeded in doing is to raise questions about what stripped R2D2 of his amazing-ness.
Rated 02 Mar 2012
7
23rd
A boring film for kids that also lets down a series just as much as the horrible prequels. Lame animation and a story that is not engaging at all, It feels like a TV pilot...oh wait...it is. Why did it come to the big screen?
Rated 08 Dec 2016
57
18th
54 first time. now i'm a bit more used to the show. dont like zero homocartman lol. liked obi+ventress. ahsoka+ani wasnt that bad at its worst and was pretty good at its best. did dooku not know palp was sidious and playing both sides? lol. the wall climbing action was pretty good. most others were ok or meh. why didnt they mention ani's arm. wish there was more ani+padme. weirdly see more of ani's light side POST-shmi's death. obi+V had cool moments. jabba+dooku plot not bad. backgroundwatch
Rated 18 Jan 2009
80
67th
Better than the prequels.
Rated 20 Jul 2009
40
5th
Great CGI, but the story is utter shit. Just another attempt to wholly convert Star Wars to a kids event. George Lucas should be ashamed of himself.
Rated 19 Nov 2008
40
5th
Alright. It's great to look at. It's got 'Star Wars' in the title. And it's even got Obi-Wan. But it has Ahsoka Tano. And undoes almost all of that promise. Maybe if I was an under 10, I'd dig it. Maybe.
Rated 15 Feb 2009
58
24th
The animation was pretty good, and the film aims towards the younger audience. The script was sub-par, but, as a fan of the Star Wars universe, it was alright.
Rated 18 Aug 2008
53
7th
The kids will eat this up, but I just can't. I give points for some very good actions sequences and the minimal Star Wars feel. I deduct points for the ugly animation, awful dialogue (and you thought a REGULAR Star Wars movie was bad?), lame and uninteresting story, questionable choices in music, and a Truman Capote Hutt. Or whatever the hell he was supposed to be like.
Rated 20 Jun 2009
30
9th
Not as bad as I thought it would be, but I'm not going to watch it again. One for the kids.
Rated 29 Sep 2008
11
3rd
Like you'd expect, The Clone Wars is a Saturday morning cartoon combined with Star Wars. Now that should sound awesome to most of you, but the movie is beyond abysmal. There is not one redeeming scene in the entire nearly-two-hour movie that makes it either in the league of the worst Star Wars work or even some of the worst Saturday morning cartoons. The Clone Wars is a disaster of epic proportions that needs to be quickly forgotten.
Rated 06 Sep 2008
15
3rd
If it looks like it might be cool as a TV series, played best in 30-minute increments, that's because that was its original intent. Nice job going for the money-grab and failing miserably, Mr. Lucas. What little respect you still have for your fans continues to dwindle...
Rated 09 Jun 2012
55
18th
In all honesty I found it enjoyable. Everything within the New Star Wars world is pretty cheesy and childish, but the elements of epic Sci-Fi action contained in this animated work are fun to watch.
Rated 27 Apr 2014
80
82nd
Which is exactly the point. At the end of the day, Star Wars: The Clone Wars isn't really intended to be a stand-alone theatrical offering. Think of it instead as a marketing vehicle for the upcoming Cartoon Network series, an 88-minute big-screen preview of what you can likely expect when the story migrates to the tube. (pluggedin.com)
Rated 17 Aug 2009
59
51st
I thought it had some cool scenes, but it is essential a kid's movie.
Rated 14 Dec 2008
69
22nd
Long and **tedious**. That about sums up the entire collection, but this one especially. Only for dedicated fans.
Rated 27 Nov 2009
50
43rd
Doesn't harm anybody - but doesn't really do anything either. There's a minor disruption to the mythos, by having a Padawan have a padawan, but after JarJar and midiclorians, STAR WARS fans are willing to forgive almost anything...
Rated 01 May 2010
63
19th
Not as bad as Episodes II and III which isn't saying much. Acting is on par with the Star Wars ones Lucas helmed himself - wooden.
Rated 03 Jan 2017
60
31st
The first part was better overall ok
Rated 27 May 2020
30
35th
I feel weird rating this on Criticker because it's not a movie, it's a long episode of the TV show.
Rated 27 Jan 2011
40
14th
4- might want to skip this one, not that hot
Rated 11 Sep 2008
20
6th
damn, no one needs any more star wars parts especially no cgi crap :(
Rated 29 Mar 2011
31
14th
Holy balls was this bad. The only good thing to come out of it was a parody of it I did on the radio.
Rated 31 May 2009
79
61st
I don't understand the hate. I had fun!
Rated 19 Dec 2011
74
42nd
I'm a big Star Wars fan but I wasn't sure if I should see this one in the theatre. Overall I did enjoy the movie. The movie does have its flaws. Some of the action scenes go on to long and are repetitive. But there are also some fun moments and the women characters get to do more in this movie. I would recommend this to Star Wars fans only.
Rated 18 Aug 2008
41
4th
Aside from a slightly interesting visual style, there's really not much to recommend here. Not even camp.
Rated 10 Nov 2008
56
21st
TV show pilot - don't go to the cinema to see it.
Rated 02 Dec 2010
15
21st
"Inconsequentiality is a pox upon the proceedings, draining any trace of narrative tension from countless large-scale conflicts that soon overwhelm the screen with stormtroopers, droids, explosions and laser blasts." - Nick Schager
Rated 16 Apr 2011
39
6th
This is a giant magnifying glass on what's wrong with CGI animation and Star Wars in general. Anakin continues to be irredeemably an asshole; as are the rest of the Jedi order. Really leaves you left wondering why we liked them in the first place.
Rated 20 Feb 2013
30
12th
CONGRATULATIONS LUCASFILMS. Something that almost matches the quality of your Holiday Special. A glorified pilot episode to a series that can be rather decent at times, but no way did this deserve a theatrical release.
Rated 19 Mar 2009
15
10th
"...if this film is any indication of the quality of the forthcoming television series, it will be blessedly short-lived."
Rated 31 Oct 2008
55
24th
Not like a movie, a simple cartoon. But it was nice to see lightsabers around! We got bored of the age of the Star Wars movies, they better look up to the extended universe. I want Darth Sion!
Rated 14 Dec 2008
22
5th
Just more milking of a franchise that only the most crazed fanboys care about at this point. It won't appeal to kids, even though it was designed to do so. The addition of a gay/cross-dressing Hutt is both hilarious and in poor taste.
Rated 14 Oct 2008
0
2nd
What happened? After watching this horrible dreck, I sat through the entire original trilogy so I could get a glimpse of what I rememberd Star Wars as. This wasn't it. The animation was bad, the voice cast was subpar, and the jokes a mess. A poop joke? In a Star Wars film? C'mon! That's just sad. The character Ahsoka is so annoying, she'd make a perfect companion for Jar Jar Binks.
Rated 09 Aug 2009
20
6th
And then they killed just a little bit more of my favourite franchise of all time.
Rated 19 Sep 2008
80
41st
Well... I'm big SW fan... and infantile too, so... why not? :)
Rated 17 Apr 2011
68
21st
Eh... Better than movies I-III.
Rated 24 Sep 2015
50
43rd
I didn't exactly have high expectations for The Clone Wars, so I enjoyed it. Other than the actors reprising their film roles, though, the voice acting is atrocious, ranging from passable (Obi-Wan and Yoda) to sounding nowhere close to the originals (Anakin and Palpatine). The action in the first half of the movie is too repetitive (Jedi reflect laser bolts, Jedi reflect more laser bolts), and I thought the Padawan character was grating.
Rated 16 Aug 2008
60
24th
A true disapointment for a Star Wars feature film of any kind. No real star wars-esque quotes or scenes. Script isn't deep either.
Rated 10 Aug 2009
10
2nd
George Lucas continues to rape the dead and badly beaten horse that was the Star Wars franchise with this boring and tedious Saturday morning cartoon stretched out to a seeming 3 hours. I honestly can't say whether I watched the whole thing, fell asleep, or just turned it off -- it's completely forgettable and inconsequential. If you liked the prequel trilogy, you might like this. If you liked the original series, Clone Wars will be like scraping your face with a rasp.
Rated 03 Nov 2008
27
8th
If it wasn't for the Star Wars Christmas special this would take the fruitcake for the worst in the star wars catalog.
Rated 11 Nov 2008
13
10th
I like the architencture, and Star Wars world has been modified to the 3D pretty good. Characters are okay except Jabba the Hutt and Yoda. But the main animation and especially the storyline are pure bull! The story does not give anything new for the Star Wars saga; just recycles old ideas and images. The serial version works much better and pleases the eye thousands times more than this. Lots of shooting and some slapstick humour for youngster.
Rated 18 May 2009
40
19th
Watchable kids movie.
Rated 04 Jul 2009
30
7th
4/7/2009
Rated 06 Jun 2009
63
10th
Predictable, childish and pointless it may be but this old fan still enjoyed it.
Rated 10 Nov 2008
10
0th
How far Star Wars has fallen. This movie is a little more than a Saturday morning serial kid soap opera with amateur animation and a simplistic plot. I saw it with my 7 year old son. He liked some of the action but when asked how he ranked it with the other star wars movies, he said 'I think its last behind that one with Jar-Jar...' I had forgotten about Episode 1... I guess my mind tried to purge it like it does sometimes when emotionally scarred. This one isn't much better.
Rated 17 Feb 2013
53
11th
a sad Star Wars cartoon, you may like it if you liked I, II and III
Rated 17 Sep 2017
61
28th
C+
Rated 23 Aug 2008
5
2nd
Am I on World of Warcraft? The digital design of this movie totally sucks, I mean: Come on, low poly models, no hair? Story isn't good either and I spend 8 Euros on it in the cinema? Well, not again, do real Film, not animated crap please.
Rated 23 Jun 2010
0
0th
horrible, absolutely horrible... and that's coming from a life-long Star Wars fan.... *spoilers*!!!!!!! (would've made sense to kill Anakin's apprentice... that way they'd explain why she never appeared in the movies and show another step that led Anakin to the dark side... but NOOO, the kids would be sad....)
Rated 10 Feb 2015
10
0th
Up the shut fuck Yoda must.
Rated 11 Mar 2017
40
24th
It has issues with everything: story, pacing, characterization, cinematography, direction, dialogue and even some of the musical choices. I'd say give this movie a pass. Just watch the tv series it's much better, minus the Jar Jar episodes. You really miss out on little to nothing, this movie has almost no noticeable bearing on the plot in the show. All you need to know is (spoilers) Anakin gets a padawan and they save Jabba's son. No need to waste 98 minutes.
Rated 16 Aug 2008
59
43rd
Not bad, but it's really not much more than a mix of video game cutscenes and a Saturday morning cartoon featuring a sassy Jedi teenager. The battle scenes were pretty awesome, but some of the dialogue was just bad. Plus, the soundtrack was a sort of John Williams remix.
Rated 29 Dec 2008
50
31st
Pretty dumb, but I had such low expectations that I kind of enjoyed sections of it. Not really good, but no more painful than Episodes 1-3.
Rated 05 Feb 2018
45
7th
Directed towards kids, but I still hate the plot, animation style, and general humor.
Rated 29 Sep 2008
55
17th
Yes it is childish. But as a fan of the whole universe i have to confess that i wasn't bored until the last 20 minutes.
Rated 06 Apr 2009
10
4th
an insult, but since its Star Wars, I wouldn't dare give it a 0
Rated 16 Aug 2008
3
28th
It's basically a Saturday morning cartoon episode blown up into feature length. I'll admit that as a Star Wars geek I'll watch anything 'Wars, but although the plot here is an okay side-story the dialogue really could have used several more drafts of polish. The whole "Anakin has a padawan" thing also sits uneasily with me, and I don't see why they couldn't have just re-used Williams' music. Extremely flawed, but watchable at least.
Rated 05 Jan 2013
32
7th
Looks like it was designed to be perfect for video game tie-ins. The dialog and voice acting are atrocious, and the the animation is really stiff. The plot structure was clearly intended to be a series of half-hour TV shows, and it does not translate to feature length well. All tension is destroyed. I actually liked it better than the prequels, but that's not saying much.
Rated 21 Dec 2015
1
11th
Horrendously ugly.
Rated 05 Oct 2009
40
22nd
Very disappointing as I thought that this would've focused more about the Clone Wars than it did with the kidnapping of Jabba the Hutt's son. The background animation looked very cool and it was easy to watch, but when characters came on the screen, it was very hard to watch. The dialogue was very bad and I thought at least i would be able to see Anakin spiraling down to the dark side, even a little bit, but it just didn't seem to fit in the Stars wars universe all that well.
Rated 15 Dec 2010
42
25th
Destroys the original films
Rated 28 Apr 2011
50
16th
The show itself is actually pretty good. This film that launched it... not so much.
Rated 12 Jan 2019
51
9th
Boring and tedious. The animation is a bit stiff but it has its own style. The plot however is just nonsense. It also doesn't entertain. There's fighting and then there's more fighting and then some more. Almost nobody important can die, because we know who are there in Revenge of the Sith. It's not a complete failure, but it's not something I'll watch again. And I love Star Wars.
Rated 18 Dec 2019
62
14th
Not particularly great, but at least it is reasonably entertaining, offers a consistent visual style and doesn't have too many groan-out-load moments.
Rated 19 Apr 2020
52
7th
Somewhat overly cartoony, no title crawl, and a pretty weak story, this movie is clearly for kids but lacks the all age appeal that one might expect from a theatrically released Star Wars movie. As such, it likely disappoints for all but the young or extremely diehard fans.
Rated 04 May 2020
62
31st
The animation is god-awful, Ewan McGregor must have thought:"I don't look that bad!"; it is obviously the first flight to see if it would work with not much monetary commitment. The antics of the droids are entertaining and the Strip club owner Hutt was cute. I found it too exploitative of the franchise back then and didn't watch it, but now it looks like a good venue to expand. For example, all Star Wars movies have the problem of extras who cannot properly celebrate, CGI extras party like hel
Rated 04 Aug 2021
51
17th
Glad this exists to introduce Ahsoka, but its painful lmfao
Rated 25 Feb 2022
19
10th
absolute TRASH
Rated 04 Apr 2022
30
3rd
incredibly uninteresting.
Rated 14 Sep 2022
99
98th
Literally the best TV show
Rated 23 Dec 2022
60
17th
A clumsy start of a great series
Rated 16 Apr 2023
4
19th
Rough start to a pretty good if flawed and uneven show.
Rated 13 Jun 2023
70
69th
The animation and some of the voice work are rather rough, the smart-ass humour is a little strained and the dialogues can get stilted, but "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" is surprisingly consistent and enjoyable, and quite an upgrade after the shitshow that were the prequels. Its biggest asset is the constant and, especially in the larger-scale sequences, very engaging action, while the plot is good enough to have you hooked throughout. Also, the legend Sir Christopher Lee is back as Count Dooku.

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