Movie Reviews: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0551746/ 15 August 2008 10:36 AM, PDT http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI1MDIwMTczOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTI4MD E3MQ@@._V1._SY90_.jpg With each new release of a Star <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/> Wars movie, the reviews grow harsher. The animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185834/> is being shot down by critics as if it were a target in a video game -- with which it is being compared. Roger Ebert <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001170/> in the Chicago Sun-Times says that producer George Lucas <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000184/> has reduced the franchise "to the level of Saturday-morning animation." It is, he writes, "a deadening film that cuts corners on its animation and slumbers through a plot that (a) makes us feel like we've seen it all before, and (b) makes us wish we hadn't." Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News regards the film as "the latest indignity" to Star Wars <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/> fans. Linda Barnard in the Toronto Star comments that Lucas <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000184/> has "whored out the much-loved Star Wars <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/> saga." And while some critics suggest that small children may enjoy the film, Jason Anderson in the Toronto Globe & Mail warns, "parents may be perturbed by the film's relentless violence." But Nathan Lee actually gives the movie a left-handed compliment in the New York Times, writing that it "comes as something of a surprise: it isn't the most painful movie of the year!" Likewise Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel writes that it is "actually better than expected." And writing in the Los Angeles Times, Michael Ordoña grants that "there's knockout animation, facsimiles of popular characters and plenty of action. But anyone older than 8 with the majority of brain functions intact will have a bad feeling about this."
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