Laura Seabrook's Ramblings

Almost forgot - I saw The Clone Wars yesterday.

Not bad for a kid's film (and this is very much a kid's film, especially the plot) - much better than Caravan of Courage (mind you, anything would be)! However, something that did grate for the first 30 minutes was the fact that the voice actors for Anakin and Obi-Wan aren't the actors from the live action films. I sometimes have trouble with faces, but am pretty good with voices. In fact the only voice actors that carry over are Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Daniels and Christopher Lee.

The other thing that got to me was that at least two important characters are clones - Captain Rex and Commander Cody (who turns up Revenge of the Sith) but all they seem to be (like the rest of the clones) are cannon fodder. Unlike others, I wasn't annoyed at Ahsoka Tano who is obviously there as a character the kids can identify with.

The IMDB website has some interesting bits of trivia about this film. Apparently all other Star Wars films have been released in May, and this is the first not to be. Also, the opening is slightly different in that they've dispensed with the scrolling text, and replaced it with a voice over. Otherwise, it has a standard format for a Star Wars film - an extended intro with a battle or situation that isn't really connected with the rest of the plot, followed by plot and double plot-twist as things develop.

I still had the sense of watching an extended promo for a video game, and the level of plot and character development matched that found in the comics, rather than the other films, but I enjoyed it for what it was, rather than what it could have been.

Um...

...I'll watch it (fan girl I might be)!