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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Aug 15, 2008

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Release Date: Aug 15, 2008; Rated: PG; Length: 99 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Animation; With: Ashley Eckstein and Matt Lanter

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DOUBLE TROUBLE: Yoda in the animated George Lucas movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars

George Lucas is turning into the enemy of fun. This all-animated chapter Star Wars: The Clone Wars sounds like a perversely logical evolution of the series, which has been built around increasingly thick gobs of digital eye candy. But you never knew how much you'd miss all that lousy, wooden human acting. The animated Anakin, Obi-Wan, etc. (all with faux movie-star voices) are drones, and the repetitive combat sequences only add to the turgid videogame anonymity of it all. Lucas' fantasy empire has morphed into a machine that plays itself. F

Originally posted Aug 15, 2008 Published in issue #1007-1008 Aug 22, 2008 Order article reprints

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