Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

Director:

Dave Filoni

Writers:

Henry Gilroy (written by) &
Steven Melching (written by) ...
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Release Date:

15 August 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights struggle to maintain order and restore peace...

Plot Keywords:

Jedi | Star Wars | Apprentice | Sequel | Good Versus Evil

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Matt Lanter	...	Anakin Skywalker (voice)
Ashley Eckstein	...	Ahsoka Tano (voice)
James Arnold Taylor	...	Obi-Wan Kenobi / 4-A7 / Medical Droid (voice)
Dee Bradley Baker	...	Clone Troopers / Captain Rex / Cody (voice)
Tom Kane	...	Yoda / Narrator / Admiral Yularen (voice)
Nika Futterman	...	Asajj Ventress / Tee-C-Seventy (voice)
Ian Abercrombie	...	Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious (voice)
Corey Burton	...	General Loathsom / Ziro the Hutt / Kronos-327 (voice)
Catherine Taber	...	Padmé Amidala (voice)
Matthew Wood	...	Battle Droids (voice)
Kevin Michael Richardson	...	Jabba the Hutt (voice)
David Acord	...	Rotta the Huttlet (voice)
Samuel L. Jackson	...	Mace Windu (voice)
Anthony Daniels	...	C-3PO (voice)
Christopher Lee	...	Count Dooku (voice)

Directed by
Dave Filoni

Writing credits
Henry Gilroy		(written by) &
Steven Melching		(written by) &
Scott Murphy		(written by)
George Lucas		(characters and universe)

Produced by
George Lucas	....	executive producer
Catherine Winder	....	producer

Original Music by
Kevin Kiner

Film Editing by
Jason Tucker

Makeup Department
Aurora Bergere	....	makeup artist: Ahsoka

Production Management
Julie Peng	....	production supervisor
Diana Tauder	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Dave Bullock	....	sequence director
George Samilski	....	sequence director

Art Department
Russell G. Chong	....	designer
Matt Gaser	....	concept artist
Steward Lee	....	storyboard artist
Darren Marshall	....	designer
Justin Ridge	....	storyboard artist
Jerome Moo	....	concept artist (uncredited)

Sound Department
David Acord	....	sound designer
Sean England	....	foley artist
Sean England	....	foley recordist
Zach Martin	....	sound mix technician
Cheryl Nardi	....	dialogue editor
Juan Peralta	....	sound mixer
Juan Peralta	....	sound re-recording mixer
Richard Quinn	....	foley editor
Ronald G. Roumas	....	re-recordist
Matthew Wood	....	sound editor
Matthew Wood	....	supervising sound editor
Caroline Cannizzaro	....	foley recordist (uncredited)
Adam Davidson	....	adr recordist (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Edward Chaplin	....	digital artist
Ling Chen	....	digital compositor: Lucasfilm
Jon Childress Farmer	....	modeler
Matthew Cioffi	....	senior modeler
Chris Foreman	....	research & development: LAL
Matthew Gidney	....	visual effects supervisor
Andrew R. Harris	....	CGI and lighting supervisor (as Andrew Harris)
Tom Hendrickson	....	visual effects coordinator
Justin Leach	....	model and rigging supervisor
Ming-Chia Lee	....	visual effects artist
Shawn Lovette	....	layout artist
Greg Maguire	....	research & development supervisor
Bertrand Ong	....	digital artist supervisor
Stephen Parker	....	pipeline supervisor
Mitch Paulson	....	second digital colorist: EFILM
Gregg Ricks	....	technical assistant
Steven J. Scott	....	supervising digital colorist: EFILM
Mark Therrell	....	character supervisor
Vincent Toscano	....	digital set supervisor
Dawn Turner	....	production manager
Paul Zinnes	....	digital set supervisor
Thomas Mathai	....	data manager (uncredited)

Animation Department
Lauren Balson	....	production coordinator
Rob Coleman	....	animation consultant
Ronan Debrun	....	additional animation consultant
Sylvain Doreau	....	layout artist
Jahkeeli Garnett	....	layout artist
Ryan Heuett	....	lead layout artist
Chieh Huang	....	layout artist
Kevin Jong	....	animation director
Danny Keller	....	additional animation consultant
Steward Lee	....	story artist
Sianoosh Nasiriziba	....	animator
Bosco Ng	....	story artist
Dan Sukiennik	....	layout artist
Le Tang	....	layout artist
Jesse Yeh	....	animation director

Casting Department
Jenn Berry	....	casting coordinator
Ellen Connell	....	casting coordinator (2008)

Editorial Department
Beth Dewey	....	digital intermediate producer
Mitch Paulson	....	colorist
Steven J. Scott	....	supervising digital colorist
Chris DeLaGuardia	....	color timer (uncredited)

Music Department
R. Orlando Duenas	....	music editor (as Orlando Duenas)
Mark Evans	....	music editor
Mark Evans	....	scoring mixer
James Fitzpatrick	....	orchestral contractor
Takeshi Furukawa	....	additional music arranger
Takeshi Furukawa	....	orchestrator
Mathias Hilger	....	music editor
Jan Holzner	....	scoring engineer
Kevin Kiner	....	conductor
Kevin Kiner	....	orchestrator
Nic Raine	....	conductor
Nic Raine	....	orchestrator
Matthew St. Laurent	....	assistant music editor
Matthew St. Laurent	....	music programmer

Other crew
Cassandra Barbour	....	rights and clearances
Jane Bay	....	executive assistant: George Lucas
Talon DeSoto	....	martial artist (as Daxton Edwards)
Anne Merrifield	....	assistant: George Lucas
Meagan Miller	....	production support
Sarita Patel	....	executive assistant: George Lucas
Nancy Sandberg	....	lead production accountant
Laura Sevier	....	rights and clearances
John Singh	....	film publicist
Sandi Smith	....	production assistant
Maria Turnhout	....	martial artist
Nicole Vigil	....	production crew

Production Companies

• CGCG
• Lucasfilm Animation
• Lucasfilm

Distributors

• Fox-Warner (2008) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• InterCom (2008) (Hungary) (theatrical)
• Karo Premiere (2008) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Sandrew Metronome Distribution Sverige AB (2008) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Village Films (2008) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. Entertainment Polska (2008) (Poland) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. Pictures (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2008) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2008) (UK) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2008) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Argentina Video Home (2008) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2009) (Switzerland) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Sweden) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Sweden) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)

Special Effects

• CGCG (animation production services)
• Lucasfilm Animation Singapore (additional animation material)

Other Companies

• City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus  music performed by (as City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
• EFilm  digital intermediate (as EFilm Digital Laboratories)
• Entertainment Clearances  rights and clearances
• Kicks Martial Arts  martial arts consulting
• L.A. Studios, The  dialogue recording services
• Skywalker Sound  post-production sound services
• Sony Classical  soundtrack

MPAA:

Rated PG for sci-fi action violence throughout, brief language and momentary smoking.

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG (certificate #44445) | Finland:K-7 | UK:PG | Ireland:PG | Australia:PG | Netherlands:6 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:All | Brazil:Livre | Portugal:M/6 | Hong Kong:I | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Malaysia:U | Sweden:7 | Philippines:G (MTRCB) | New Zealand:PG | Spain:7 | Peru:PT | Argentina:Atp | Germany:12 | Mexico:A

Company:

CGCG

Trivia:

Shipped to some theaters under the name "Joan of Arc".

Quotes:

Captain Rex: Who's the youngling?
Ahsoka Tano: I'm Master Skywalker's Padawan. The name's Ahsoka Tano.
Captain Rex: Sir, I thought you said you'd never have a Padawan.
Anakin Skywalker: There's been a mix-up. The youngling isn't with me.
Ahsoka Tano: Stop calling me that! You're stuck with me, Skyguy.
Anakin Skywalker: [Rex bursts out laughing] What did you just call me? Don't get snippy with me, little one. You know, I don't even think you're old enough to be a Padawan.
Ahsoka Tano: Well maybe I'm not, but Master Yoda thinks I am...

Movie Connections:

References "Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe" (1953)

Mixed feelings about the movie.

Fan buzz has been very negative for this movie. Myself, I have tried to remain positive. But even I, as a very lenient movie watcher has to admit that this really wasn't great. It's not on par with any of the other six movies of the franchise. It wasn't all bad though, and I will tell you what was good and bad about it now.

The animation was a real mixed bag. It had great backgrounds that looked almost like they were taken right out of the movies, then you have these very poorly designed characters. As much as I liked most of the designs on everything but the characters themselves, I couldn't help looking at the animation like a beautiful painting with poo smeared in some spots. You can look at the painting, but it's hard to enjoy it when you can't take your eyes off the poo. It takes away from the potentially awesome animation. They look plastic and stiff, and the facial expressions and lip syncing look like something from a Playstation game from 1999. The voice acting was pretty bad as well, although Christopher Lee did and alright job, and Matt Lanter had a lot more emotion in his voice acting than Hayden had in the entire role.

The dialogue was about as bad as can be. The exchanges between Anakin and his apprentice were all cliché and boring. Not to mention almost all the droids were like copies of Jar Jar Binks. A main problem was that I thought this would focus more on action than it did. That's why I felt all that lame childish stuff wouldn't matter. But it was mostly discussing the problems and treaties and stuff, which was the last thing this movie needed. There was a fair bit of action, but even when they were having awesome lightsaber duals, they felt the need to stop every 4 seconds and talk about stuff that I didn't need to hear, such as why they were having the battle. I wanted to see lightsaber duals on a level that they couldn't manage in a live action movie, and they did not deliver in this way. A lot of the other action was pretty good though, some being very fast moving and intense.

The storyline really didn't consist of much.... just people trying to get Jabba the Hutt on their side, basically. This is not a movie that I think many old Star Wars fans will enjoy, but it may be a movie that helps introduce new people to the franchise, which is always a good thing. This is definitely a movie for the younger audiences, not older people and film critics. It basically just felt like a long TV Show episode, which is basically all it was. It was good for a TV episode, but not for a movie. If the action is as good in the series as it was in the movie (and hopefully there will be more), then I will be looking forward to it. But if they release another movie that looks to be at this level, I will have to wait until DVD.