I really like the stylised 3D, it’s a 3D approximation of Tartovsky’s style in the original Clone Wars cartoon and the trailer had me more intrigued than any of the SW 1, 2 or 3 ones. I might even go see this.
I actually think it looks cool, though I have no idea if the script is any good(unlikely).
It has to be better than the Phantom Menace, right?
Look what kind of fan Lucas turned me into after the Phantom Menace. I’ll settle for anything at this point!
I’m going to watch it for the same reason any sane adult would watch Star Wars nowadays: the lightsaber duels and the battles scenes.
Because let’s face it that’s the only reason we watched them as kids and teenagers because it was the only reason to watch them period. Or does anyone here really care a about Dooku’s reason to turn to the dark side (after all we never really found out)? Or if the galactic senate passes some measure or bill? Or the snappy dialog (the fact that the characters even look like they are made of wood should warn you about that)?
The problem with this - and the ridiculous problem with the whole concept of doing prequels instead of moving forward in the first place - is that nothing is at stake. We know how the story ends. Drama is conflict, and suspense, and surprise, and this holds none of that.
Plus: [Cartman] the animation’s all crappy.
Not only is it prequels, but it’s * prequels with the same cast of characters *. Jabba the Hut’s son? Why do the same names keep coming up. Is this a galaxy with about 100 people in it?
Right now, it’s tracking at 36% at Rotten Tomatoes.
By contrast, here’s how the 3 prequels fared on RT: Ep.I (64%), Ep.II (67%), Ep.III (80%).
I’d much rather see the early days of Darth Vader than another microsecond of Anakin Skywalker.
Do not be dissing Lego Star Wars movies. The video game has cut-scenes taken from the original movie trilogy, only re-enacted with CG Lego people and vehicles, and they are laugh-out-loud funny, brilliantly done. No dialogue, so when Darth Vader reveals that he’s Luke’s father he whips a little family snapshot polaroid - a family snapshot of little Lego people - out of his robes as proof.
Anyone want to bet George Lucas is going to come out and say that he’s just having fun with this and doing it for his kids?
Well that’s my faith in the rotten tomatoes rating system pretty much destroyed forever then.
The first time those words were uttered by anybody!
I don’t have a link right now, but Harry Knowles (the Ain’t It Cool News guy & Star Wars uber fanboy) gave it a horrible review! Apparently, he released his scathing review before he was supposed to, so Lucas made him take it down from his site. This is quite telling as far as the quality of the cartoon movie goes.
(I’m assuming no one else has posted this here because everyone else is too intelligent to have Knowles and his website on their radar.)
AICN is my second Bookmark - right under SDMB, of course! I didn’t mention it because I didn’t read the review before it got taken down, so I didn’t know what Harry said about it. Well, that plus the fact that I just now stumbled in here! 
Well, that just changed me from someone who probably isn’t going to pay to see this movie into someone who definitely isn’t going to pay to see this movie.
AICN took it down, but not before someone copied and reposted it elsewhere.
MetaCritic is better. They had the prequels at 52 (Ep.I), 53 (Ep.II), and 68 (Ep.III).
Clone Wars is at 44. That’s Meet Dave and The Ruins territory.
I’m still at a loss as to why they made this. Even Lucas must realize by now that for the most part people didn’t like the prequels as much as the original trilogy. Why do we keep visiting the Clone Wars? It’s especially weird that it stars Anakin when we’ve already seen the movie where he turns evil and butchers children. Are we supposed to just forget about that and cheer for him as a hero?
If they really wanted to make a series based on the prequels, they could’ve made it take place after Ep III, as there’s still a couple decades of story to tell in that period of time. There’s so much they could’ve done with that premise, why did they revisit the dumb ol’ Clone Wars again?!
I thought one of the comments at those links was insightful:
"I see Lucas as an extremely intelligent, emotionally distant guy who takes refuge in fantasy because human relationships are a little mystifying to him. Consequently he writes stilted, unbelievable, and overly technical dialogue and occasionally appears completely tone-deaf on issues like [insisting that a fat slug with tatoos ought to lisp like Truman Capote]. "
Having seen the second round of tv ads for this, I REALLY think it must suck. Badly. The whole thing seems on a par with the humor in a Saturday morning cartoon show. A belching baby Hutt? An exaggerated reaction to said belching with added scorn from the teenage Jedi trainee? “I am NOT too young to be a Padawan!”?
It’s Hanna-Barbera-level dialogue and plotting. Horrible.
Wouldn’t see it for any reason. I’m really confused by the animation style: all the characters look like puppets carved out of wood. Apparently this is 3D, but who finds that aesthetically appealing?
It also has sort of a B-Sides quality to it. If this war was so interesting, why wasn’t it part of the three main movies? It’s not like they were so action-packed, there was no time to tell this story.