I find it amusing that SO MANY force heads out there bemoan this film, and call Lucas a sell out like it is news or something.

Flash Back time guys
1) Star wars Christmas special
2) the original Marvel Comics run of Star Wars Comics
3) Ewoks; The Fight for Endor
4) The Ewoks animated saturday morning Cartoon.

WHY DOES THIS FILM SURPRISE YOU!!!

The main audience for the property has ALWAYS been Children – or were you all born fully grown nerds?!??

I also recognize that for as much as episodes 1 -3 drove me insane with how much I did not like them – there are small children and tweens out there that fell in love with movies from those films – just like the original trilogy did for me.

Personally I look forward to little girls dressed as red skinned Twi’lek’s this Halloween.

If I had a daughter – that would SO be her costume.

I’ll just have to go kidnap a small meat-bag to see it with.

Firstly, when characters are standing around talking to each other and laughing, they seem pretty stiff and lifeless. I’d like to see the facial expressions and body motion loosen up a bit.

Do all saber duels between jedi and sith have to end the same way? It sucks a little when nothing’s at stake. Can’t Obiwan carve off even just a little piece of that Ventress hag?

Also, the music. I miss the real score. Star Wars is an opera. I’m fine with the TV series doing its own thing, but on the big screen I wanted more. Not a fan of the wussy tweaked theme.

Of course my real wish is that they would totally ditch continuity and create all new characters and stories. Ahsoka breathes tones of life into this movie and proves they can do a good job. Why not a series about the Mandalorians? Or when the Jedi all came together? Hell, stick young Yoda in it. Get back to the roots. The prequels to date are too polished and filled with boring ass politics.

All in all it’s totally worth seeing. Just don’t forget to put on your kid goggles.

And to be honest, the live action series (planned to be set between the dark times of Episode III and IV) is going to rock all of our worlds.

But this is a product for kids and Star Wars fans. And yes, I want it. I don’t mind soggy bites of corn-puffs with Saturday morning cartoons. I don’t know about you, but those were always the best days when I was a kid.

I hear Anakin fights Dooku in this: who will win I wonder?

I read AICN and JOBLO’s reviews of CLONE WARS and they basically sum up my general feeling about the whole thing. (I haven’t seen the film and probably won’t ever thus causing a falling out with Swank).

From AICN: “Do the fanboys REALLY want a bunch of scenes of characters whose destinies we already know fly through a series of dogfights so their pretty ships can go PEWPEWPEW against lifeless moronic droids so incompetent you question the tenacity of anyone that would put them into service let alone fight a war with an army of them? Do the fanboys REALLY want to spend the next 20 years of their lives arguing that the movies they love don’t, in fact, suck the hair off of a nutless monkey? Do the fanboys REALLY want an animated television series not written for 30-year-old men, but easily amused 8 year olds on Saturday morning between bites of soggy Corn Puffs? Because that’s what they’re fucking getting with The Clone Wars.”