Clone Wars seemed to have received bad reviews almost unanimously. The critics seem really disappointed with this sequel. Todd McCarthy, from Variety mentioned, " This isn't the Star Wars we've always known and at least sometimes loved. " I disagree with Todd; I thought this sequel kept many of the proponents that the previous Star Wars films kept true to. This film had action, it was politically involved, it had military strategy, and a rich multifaceted story that included the plot of the duplicitous Count Dooku, and his alliance with Ziro the Hutt, who was awkward and pimp like admittedly. The action scenes were exciting, and the particular animation format attributed a video game quality to the film, in some scenes, which was refreshing. I do agree with Todd that the animation in its application to the human characters, did make the humans seem stiff.
Peter Hartlaub from the San Francisco Chronicle, seemed to have written an objective review, but he still thinks the movie has a sophomoric basis in saying, " Clone Wars doesn't try to be more than one thing - a movie for 10-year-old boys - and by that standard, it's a success." This proponent of his review is positive seemingly, but considering his review in its entirety, this seems to be a mixed review rather than a bad review, and because Hartlaub indicates the movie was made for the kids, does not equate that he opines the movie is bad. In retrospect, I do not see a major difference in the dialogue, and content in Clone Wars in contrast to the previous films, on that point, I disagree with Peter.
Again, to be fair to Peter he also mentioned, " But it's not as bad as it sounds." Metacritric.com categorized Peter's review as a bad one, but I think his review is mixed and rather objective. Almost unanimously, critics share the view that this film was designed for kids. However, this film could have received a PG-13 rating, because of the action scenes, specifically the scene where the heads of the bounty hunters were presented to Jabba the Hutt. In contrasting both reviews, apparently, Peter thinks the movie was O.K while Todd seems to think the movie was sub par. So were the critics too harsh in their critique of Clone Wars ? Maybe, but they were certainly not crazy about it, and apparently neither were the fans.
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Personally, I thought it was very good and much better than I expected. Sometimes I think critics are just too critical and they it is their job to be negative. Plus, the fact that is was a Star Wars movie means everyone expects perfection. The reality is, if this movie were live action, people would have loved it. It was more than worth the trouble to do as a sub-episode in animation.
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