'Clone Wars' fun, though forgettable
While anything remotely Star Wars is potentially a welcome trek for hard-core fans, this will be a mixed thrill given that the saga returns to the big screen as a cartoon.
George Lucas' prequel trilogy was so overloaded with computer-generated imagery that the digital animation of Clone Wars isn't that big of a leap. The somber tone of those three movies is gone, replaced with a variation of the campy humor and camaraderie that characterized the original trilogy.
Still, a Star Wars movie should be an event. Whether because of its cartoony format or its relatively lightweight story, Clone Wars definitely is not an event. It's a fairly fun if forgettable little adventure that hurls Anakin, his new young apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the rest of the gang into a kidnapping conspiracy and rescue amid a galactic civil war between clone soldiers and android troops. The movie is a glorified introduction to the Clone Wars animated series debuting this fall on TV.
