Spoiler Warning: The Clone Wars reviews & reactions

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eberts review and some quotes from it: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...808140301/1023

Has it come to this? Has the magical impact of George Lucas' original vision of "Star Wars" been reduced to the level of Saturday morning animation?

basically just a 98-minute trailer for the autumn launch of a new series on the Cartoon Network.

plot that (a) makes us feel like we've seen it all before, and (b) makes us wish we hadn't.

The characters have hair that looks molded from Play-Doh, bodies that seem arthritic, and moving lips on half-frozen faces -- all signs that shortcuts were taken in the animation work.

The dialogue in the original "Star Wars" movies had a certain grace, but here the characters speak to one another in simplistic declamation, and Yoda gets particularly tiresome with his once-charming speech pattern.

Ahsoka Tano, by the way, is annoying. She bats her grapefruit-sized eyes at Anakin and offers suggestions that invariably prove her right and her teacher wrong. At least when we first met Yoda, he was offering useful advice. Which reminds me. I'm probably wrong, but I don't think anyone in this movie ever refers to The Force.