Critic Reviews
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Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
Although no half-hour TV series is going to capture the visual splendor and sophisticated sound of the big-screen experience, it's surprising how well this series reflects the style, attitude, ideals and spirit of the six "Star Wars" films. |
| 75 |
Newsday Staff (Not Credited)
This is a cool weekly cartoon series from Lucasfilm Animation that finds a fresh new style for depicting the struggle of the Jedi and their army of genetically engineered clones against the seemingly indomitable droid army of evil Separatists. |
| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly Jeff Jensen
At least the TV spin-off is decent--definitely more suspenseful and character-centric than the bombastic pilot flick. |
| 70 |
Slate Troy Patterson
In the 3-D digital animation of this series, [Yoda's] skin glows a healthy shade of moss, and his sprightliness helps this latest George Lucas diversion achieve some commendable action-adventure zip. |
| 70 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
The first two half-hour episodes, airing at 9 and 9:30 p.m. Friday, are less raucous and seemingly more adult than the film. There's more attention to character development; Jabba the Hutt's flamboyant uncle isn't anywhere to be found. |
| 60 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
Lucas could spend the rest of his life filling that hiatus with adventures whose outcomes are basically irrelevant to the larger story he has already finished telling. Many battles make up a war, after all, and each is an episode waiting to be animated. The two I've seen are bagatelles--brief and insubstantial but colorful and fluid. |
| 50 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Clone Wars--the "Star Wars" animated series that amounts to an "interquel" between Episodes II and III--is vastly superior to the advance theatrical movie. That's mostly beacuse the half-hour episodes are so jam-packed with action the clunky dialogue flies by less obtrusively, and the irritating characters have less time to annoy. |
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Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
This new show is at least better paced than the horribly wooden prequels, but little about Clone Wars is involving. |
| 42 |
Time James Poniewozik
If you expect it to be good--then yes, it's as disappointing as the summer movie it follows. If you think of it as a kid-oriented spin-off product--well, it still suffers from characters with all the vibrancy and pizazz of a PowerPoint marketing plan. |
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