‘Clone Wars’: Is it better than ‘Revenge of the Sith’?
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Over at the Show Tracker blog, Denise Martin is talking strong about the new George Lucas foray into television animation, ‘The Clone Wars.’ She says it ‘just might be better than all the live-action prequels put together.’
The episode looked great -- not Pixar-amazing, but certainly in line with movies like ‘Kung Fu Panda’ -- but it’s the writing that puts it heads above the franchise’s more recent additions. Sure, the series is ultimately aimed at kids, but this audience was laughing. And the comedy here is expected -- in a good way. It doesn’t come from Anakin saying things like, ‘I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth,” -- as amusing as that was in ‘Attack of the Clones.’
Reporters did get a load of Gothic villain Ventress in action. She’s an apprentice of Count Dooku, whom the series’ supervising director David Filoni describes as ‘a bit sensuous’ and ‘serpent-like.’ She’s genuinely frightening.
Read the rest of Denise Martin’s review at Show Tracker.
-- Geoff Boucher