Star Wars: The Clone Wars Critic Reviews

With its simple-goal-driven plot, its wordy, cutscene-like interludes, and its stiffly modeled characters, it wouldn't even make for a particularly high-end videogame.Read the full review

Once again, even reasonably committed fans will need a scorecard to keep track of who's fighting whom. What's the real target audience - i.e. kids - supposed to make of it all?Read the full review

As a mechanical thrill ride, The Clone Wars has an uncluttered look and furious pace that make it more or less as satisfying as its wildly overdesigned predecessors.Read the full review

This isn't the Star Wars we've always known and at least sometimes loved.Read the full review

Looks fantastic, but the film suffers from the TV-to-feature transition.Read the full review

The Clone Wars is the last nail in a coffin that has been propped up ever since George Lucas sold his creative soul in the quest for a few more pieces of gold.Read the full review

The largely uninspired Clone Wars feels landlocked. In the absence of any extensive innovation, the video game-ready results play more like a feature-length promo for the imminent TV series of the same name than a stand-alone event.Read the full review

Despite some absolutely gorgeous animation and adjusting expectations for what Clone Wars is meant to be, the Force is not strong with this one.Read the full review

Basically just a 98-minute trailer for the autumn launch of a new series on the Cartoon Network.Read the full review