Star Wars: The Clone Wars

When The Clone Wars premiered in 2008, the truth is that most people didn’t really know what to expect. It wasn’t a typical Star Wars movie, nor did it try to be. What looked like just a small film to introduce the animated series ended up being the beginning of something huge and incredibly important for the Star Wars universe. It wasn’t a direct continuation, but a different starting point, with fresh ideas and a lot of room to grow.

From the very beginning, you can tell The Clone Wars doesn’t aim to imitate the films. The animation, with its bold and almost geometric style, broke away from everything we had seen before. It might take a few minutes to get used to, but soon you’re into the rhythm and enjoying what it brings: well-crafted battles, an expansive take on the Clone Wars conflict, and most importantly, the introduction of Ahsoka Tano — a character who, unbeknownst to us at the time, would become essential to the entire franchise.

Sure, there are some lighter or even slightly childish moments, especially with the humor of certain droids, but that doesn’t take away from the film’s value. It adds new layers to a conflict that previously felt a bit one-note. Here, we see clone troopers as individuals, Jedi dealing with tough decisions, and characters like Anakin and Obi-Wan from a different perspective.

This movie isn’t trying to win over people who’ve never connected with Star Wars, nor is it trying to position itself as the next “big” film in the saga. Its goal is different: to act as a bridge toward something more ambitious. As a prologue to the series, it does the job well, and over time, it’s gained significance for what it represents within canon.

If someone dismisses it just because it’s animated or “looks like it’s for kids,” they’re missing part of what The Clone Wars brought to the galaxy. It may not be perfect, but it has heart, purpose, and a starting point that grew into something much bigger.

Not nearly as bad as I remembered it. The story is actually good as is the pacing. It hits a bit of a bump when Anakin and Ahsoka reach Tatooine and the story side tracks with Amidala. Speaking of Anakin, this version is much better than the one from Ep II. The light sabre fights were well done. Yeah, the little Jabba, that's not a stroke of genius. But overall I must say I really enyoed watching it again.

And, going back to this now, seeing how Anakin and Ahsoka met, gives it a lot more weight. I am planing to watch the complete show again and looking very much forward to it.

Not terrible by any means. It definitely feels like 4 or so episodes of the show crammed together to be a movie and could've been a lot better in many ways but it's acceptable for what it is. If you're also watching the series in chronological order like I am, then the first two episodes you watch are preparation and setup for this movie.

As an introduction to the TV show, this is a reasonable introduction to the characters which are vastly improved on over the course of the show. However, it certainly doesn't warrant a theatrical release as it does not work as an Episode 2.5 at all with characters like Ventress and Ahsoka involved and the plot is thin stuff for the film to work as a standalone. The decision to join three episodes together also results in a dominance of action sequences, some of which are impressive (the cliff face assault is great stuff) but overall it gets a little tiresome after a while. A whole subplot involving Padme could easily have been cut. The initial signs for the show however are promising - the relationship between Obi Wan and Anakin has developed more into camaraderie that works well in what little is seen and Ahsoka is a nice foil to Anakin and has potential despite occasional poor attempts at banter (this is said in hindsight having seen the development of Ahsoka and Anakin in the show). Would be far better split into the original three episodes and shown as part of the show itself but, having viewed all the episodes of The Clone Wars, as it stands it now feels like a better film that it did initially.

Anakin and Ahsoka make me so sad

I watched this back in 2009 and remembered it being fairly execrable, but it went down better the second time. I think the beginning is so subpar that we just tuned out the first time, but managed to hang in this time and it improved from execrable to eh with flashes of cute.

This movie isn’t great…

The dialogue is shaky, the animation’s rough, and you can definitely tell this is just a few early Clone Wars episodes stitched into a “movie” and shoved into theaters. And even as early Clone Wars episodes go, these aren’t the strongest.

The biggest letdown without a doubt is Ahsoka’s introduction. Knowing how incredible she becomes later makes this even more frustrating. Here she’s just an obnoxious, arrogant tag-along who’s hard to root for.

Then there’s the plot… which revolves entirely around rescuing Baby Jabba. Yup. Ninety-eight minutes of that. Plus a bunch of forced “stinky” jokes that somehow make it worse.

Thankfully, the action still delivers some classic Star Wars fun and keeps things from being a total slog.

It’s underwhelming, sure, but I can live with it because it leads into a series that blossoms into something truly special.

Fun to see how Anakin and Ahsoka met and their dynamic. I also like to see Anakins progress from episode 2.

I don't really like the story and it is definitely not as good as the rest of the star wars franshice.

this movie should've been named "star wars: the clone wars - rotta the hutt" to avoid the assumption of it being short version of the multi-seasons show (at least i initially assumed so)
anyways this piece of crap have been replaced by 2015's "Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Episode I: Army Of The Republic" which acts as re-debut of this clone wars era

Well it's better than episodes 1&2 and introduces one of the best SW characters Ahsoka