Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2008
	Director: Dave Filoni (episodes of the TV-series Avatar - The Last Airbender, Star Wars - The Clone Wars and Star Wars - Rebels)
	Actors (voices): Matt Lanter, Nika Futterman, Tom Kane
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF, Animation, Action
	Conditions of visioning: 01.04.2017, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are fighting alongside Repubic clones against the droid army. Master Joda sends then a message via Anakin's new Padawan Ahsoka that their new mission is to recover the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hut.
Review: When I started to watch the first seasons of the Clone Wars TV-series, I skipped that movie which I thought was a compilation of episodes gathered for a cinema release, while in fact it is a full-blown story that does introduce the series, as I recently learned when browsing for the canonical Star Wars timeline (movies, series, books, comics and video games, some of them I am tempted to discover like the Aftermath novel trilogy). Most importantly it provides an introduction to the character of Ahsoka which I have always thought the series lacked. This animated film is built more like a movie than just a longer episode of the series: the intro and outro are ones of a Star Wars movie, the pace is slower and there are no cliffhanger every 30 minutes but rather a continuous story. I found the pace sometimes even too slow. It was interesting to watch it after the latest season 6, so that I could directly see the technical progress made in 6 years, especially in the animation of the characters' movements and of their faces.
Rating: 5 /10