Star Wars Clone Wars

Star Wars The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One (TV Series)
$44.98
This is a great product! Watching the individual episodes without the commercial break fade-outs and no Cartoon Network logo printed onscreen is the BEST way to see these wonderful shows! Each episode has a corresponding featurette that outlines the production of that episode. There is a booklet of arwork affixed to the center of the DVD case that affords a cool look into the storyteller's minds.

My only complaint is: I LOVE behind the scenes materials! I would've really enjoyed something that showed even MORE aspects of their production... sculpting maquettes, scanning them, animation nodes, storyboard to digital comparisome... I can think of so much more I'd have loved to have seen... sniff... sob... I guess I can't have it all.

It's a great pleasure to have the entire season at fingertip's grasp. I was disappointed at the decision to release the episodes in individual DVD's containing a few episodes each. I don't know how Lucasfilm made out on that decision, but I refused to buy them in that format and waited, hoping the entire season would be released as a whole. Well, folks, here it is... and it's great!

LEGO Star Wars Clone Walker Battle Pack
$12.99
I like this toy because my son can play with it for hours and days and weeks. It keeps him active and busy and away from too much video games. These toys make him build and create so I like them.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Widescreen Edition)
$19.98
To put this in perspective,I have always been the one to defend the prequels after it became trendy to criticize them but I have to draw the line at this particular cinematic travesty.

At best, the storyline reads like amateur fan fiction but to be fair, it has potential to keep small children occupied for a while. The action sequences were reasonably entertaining but unfortunately, I was too distracted by the painful dialogue to thoroughly enjoy them. If a movie that bears the iconic name of "Star Wars" has a need for comic relief, it could not come from a much more ridiculous source than assembly-line droids whose programming should not include personality of any sort, much less slow-witted ineptitude.
But the annoyance of the droids pales in comparison to that of the character of the young Padawan "Ahsoka Tano". From the word 'go', this alien brat exhibits an attitude that should have got her drop-kicked out of Jedi College a long time ago (in a galaxy far away). Her consistent backtalk and unwillingness to follow orders is difficult to picture being tolerated in any military organization but somehow she is given a free pass by the Jedi masters, and recalcitrant pre-teen girls will probably also find her quite inspiring. If 'The Clone wars' were an AT-AT walker, Ahsoko would be the snowspeeder tow-cable that brought it to its knees and crashed it.

For any true and long-term fan of the Star Wars franchise, this movie is worth its weight in Rancor droppings. For the writers of this animated insult, perhaps Vader could suspend Boba Fetts "no disintegrations" restriction...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2 Disc Special Edition)
$34.98
Though not the Star Wars I grew up with its still enjoyable. The action sequences, and there are a lot of them, look great. The character models though, the humans imparticular, I wish had a little more movement to them. They're too stiff and their hair looks like it was modeled out of Play-Doh. The acting also varies in this picture. While Hayden Christensen was bad in his two, the guy providing Anakin's voice in this is pretty good but some deliveries are flat and and unconvincing. James Arnold Taylor provides the voice of Obi-Wan who actually captures the character very well. Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Daniels return to voice their characters though I hope Daniels and Jackson were well paid for about five minutes worth of dialog. I am glad though that Dooku is in it more but all he pretty much does is stand in front of Jabba the Hutt for the whole picture. The new character Ashoka voiced by Ashley Eckstein is annoying! I wish they never gave Skywalker a Padawan; she dress inappropriately for a Jedi apprentice, I hate the way she handles her lightsaber and I hate those stupid nicknames they give each other (though I am grateful that she doesn't call him SkyGuy hardly at all in the series). All in all it delivers but if I were Lucas, I wouldn't have put this in theatres to make a quick buck. It drags too long and would've been suited better for a TV movie than theatrical.