Daily Plastic: Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Movie	Our Take	Other Takes
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Trailer . IMDB	Fans of the franchise won't need any prodding to check out Lucas's new direction, though 'new' isn't quite the right word. But re-baking old material is old hat for Lucas. Only the technology changes. J. Robert Parks Daily Plastic	[T]he plot concerns the efforts of Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, his neophyte sidekick, to secure a fragile alliance by retrieving Jabba the Hutt's baby son from the double-crossing clutches of Count Dooku, blah, blah, blah. Exploding robots! Nathan Lee New York Times Faint Praise Dept: There's something to be said for rendering the Star Wars universe in animation, as opposed to live action. It's easier to buy dialogue like "I sense Count Dooku's part in this" and "Surrender the Huttlet or die, Skywalker!" when it's emerging from the mouths of cartoon characters. Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com The shark-jumping moment arrives with Jabba's crimelord uncle Ziro the Hutt [who] is the most preposterous thing to hit the Star Wars universe since Bea Arthur in the infamous "Holiday Special." He's also the best reason to see this flimsy, kid-friendly videogame approximation of a once proud cinematic franchise. Still, at least it's better than The Phantom Menace. Tom Huddleston Time Out It's not as bad as The Phantom Menace because it's not as long. Mark Kermode BBC Radio 5 Live

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