Clone Wars!!!!

[nenena]

Just saw Clone Wars, finally. LOVED IT. Now this is what a Star Wars movie should be: lots of action, just-barely-developed-enough-to-be-tolerable characters, at least minimally passable acting, lots of yay neato sci-fi space opera stuff, and lots of nifty Jedi Force-fueled shenanigans.

Granted, as with previous prequel films, the villainous "plot" was poorly thought out, and the military "strategy" employed by Anakin and others made no sense. I.E. the opening scene of the film. Unless I missed something, Anakin and Obi-Wan's BRILLIANT STRATEGY was to... attack the droids... and then attack the droids some more. Uh, that is not "strategy."

Anyway, things about the movie that rocked:

Ahsoka!!!

Ahsoka's backhanded lightsaber grip!!!

That vertical battle on Teth! Freakin' awesome! Reminded me Dead Fantasy II.

Badass Ventress was badass.

Cute baby Hutt was cute.

Non-wooden Anakin was non-wooden.

Rocking score by not-John-Williams was rocking.

Gay Hutt was... purple? Okay, seriously? There was a flaming homosexual Hutt with a lisp, a nasal effete Southern drawl, a feathered headpiece, and a purple body?!

Seriously?!

Oh, Lucas. That's almost as bad the Gungans.

Unrelated: I really really really need to catch up on the Expanded Universe again. Tahiri grew up to be a badass?! Freakin' Tahiri?! Awesome!

Comments

[nenena.livejournal.com]

Really? A couple of other people on my flist liked it.

I've read a lot of critical reviews of the film, and a major thread running through all of them was "oh noes, they made a Star Wars movie for kiddies!" And it absolutely is a deliberately kid-oriented film, but... come on. I, for one, am glad to see a Star Wars film that embraces what the original films did well: jedi awesomeness, big space battles, lots of stuff blowing up, and the childlike sense of wonder of a neophyte character who's experiencing the universe for the first time. And I'm glad that the film tosses aside the more adult-like things that we know Lucas can't do well, like "political intrigue" and "romance between anybody who is not Han or Leia."

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

I personally think that this was a pretty adult kids film too :D They showed the horrors of the war, and by giving the Clone troopers distinctive personalities it made me care more about them and when they're watching their comrades die in battle, it actually made me feel this was more than just disposable chars fighting more disposable chars.

And the kids thing adds to the FUN too! Space battles, a story that is tight and doesn't go off into weird tangents, heroic feats, good guys being good, bad guys being bad, and awesome lightsabre battles that have feeling behind them :D