Looks like Clone Wars is taking a hammering among the critics, albeit not a "You Got Served"-style hammering. 44% isn't anything to brag about, unless it's the score you got on a magazine quiz entitled "How Much Like Hitler Are You?"
I'm one of the world's biggest George Lucas Apologists--the seventh biggest, according to the newest Guinness Book of World Records--but even I'm leery about this whole Clone Wars thing. And I thought Return of the Jedi was a great movie, for God's sake!
Regardless of whether it's a good movie or not, the idea of an animated Star Wars triggers my cinematic gag reflex. Part of THE MAGIC OF THE MYTH is seeing human beings (and Hayden Christensen) interact with Lucas's hyper-super-imaginative settings. If everything is animated--if you take out the human element--you're left with nothing but whiz-bang effects.
And whiz-bang effects are cool, but eventually you're all whizzed and banged out. I know the feeling. It happened to me about halfway through "Revenge of the Sith." It's become Lucas's trademark. Not the good kind of trademark, but the bad kind, like the kind of trademark a serial killer leaves behind.
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