Really good?

I was expecting a watered down kiddy movie, and looking at the audience surrounding me and the trailers preceeding the film, it seems my expectations were on the mark. However, to my surprise this film delivered a stunning and refreshing Star Wars experience that greatly complimented the Emmy Award Winning Clone Wars Animated TV series. While the movie delivered an experience far more informal than one would expect from a Star Wars film and relied on a modest pre-existing knowledge of the back story of the animated TV series, it was a really good movie.

Surprisingly reviews of the movie haven't been so kind and most seem to be rooted in not being able to appreciate this as what it ended up being, a fun side adventure which acts as supplementary matterial for the main movies and Star Wars cannon. The Movie really is targeted at kids, but ironically contains far less slapstick than the main movies and far more violence and bloody battle.

While the film does advertise itself as a telling of the lost clone wars chapter, it really is only one small interlude in the much larger clone wars story as a whole fitting neatly within the ambiguity of the second season of the Clone Wars animated series.

Odd, I guess few people my age went to see this.

i am going to see it next week. i was going to cancel but you made me see the error of my ways.

I'm going to go see it asap. Maybe this weekend, with school starting up for my kids I have been pretty spent and busy.

Can someone explain to me what it is about? I thought it was just a animated re-make of Episode 2...I didn't even know about a TV Series.

 In 2005 and 2006 there was a two season animated mini-series aired on Cartoon Network which covered the events of the Clone Wars that took place between episode 2: Attack of the Clones and episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. The unique artstyle was the direction of Gendy Travousky (Dexter's Lab, Samurai Jack, etc) and the series emerged as a highly acclaimed Emmy Award winning TV event. I really recommend it for any Star Wars fan.

This new movie, is actually a pilot of sorts for a new Clone Wars TV series (this one done in CGI though) that will focus on a single chapter of the Clone Wars, fitting neatly within the events of the second season of the original Clone Wars TV series. In other words this movie and new upcomming series will act as supplemental matterial to first Clone Wars Mini-Series.

Here is a graph to better explain the time line.