Reviews for this movie seem to fall into two distinct categories, the five-star 'my six-year-old loves it' category and the one-star 'this is the biggest pile of rubbish ever made and George Lucas should be tarred and feathered for allowing it to see the light of day' category. I fall squarely in the middle on this one. Is it the greatest Star Wars film ever made? Absolutely not. Is it the biggest pile of rubbish ever? Not really.

It just is what it is--a modestly budgeted feature length cartoon designed to appeal to viewers, primarily male, under the age of 12. The animation technique is visually engaging and the story line is somewhat simplistic with fairly predictable plot twists. But taken in the spirit with which it is intended, it does work and it does do more than stitch one battle sequence to the next.

This film was never intended to be on par with the six live action Star Wars films that preceded it, nor was it intended as a season blockbuster. Although it was a theatrical release, Star Wars: The Clone Wars was really just a pilot for a TV series that was already in the process of being made. The idea of kicking the series off with a feature film was almost an afterthought. Although it performed only modestly at the box office, Lucasfilm and Warner deemed it a success in that it met their expectations. It should be noted that this film's release through Warner instead of Fox had nothing to do with its quality. It was a Warner project from the 'git-go'. The Clone Wars TV series was being produced for Cartoon Network, which is owned by Warner; therefore, it stands to reason that Warner would release the feature film.

If you can avoid having unrealistic expectations about this film, you will probably be able to enjoy it for what it is without disappointment, anger, or resentment over what it isn't.

Let the buyer beware THIS IS AN ANIMATED clone of the Clone Wars movie. How sickening. An animated Star Wars movie. There should be a notation in the title heading that this is animated.

I bought this for my 7 year old grandson for Christmas and he loved it. He's a Star Wars fan and really wanted this DVD. Great gift.

This movie stink It has great Graphics I will give it that but this is not Star Wars this is horrible Dave Filoni needs to have a personal date with vader and let his lightsaber kill him Revenge of the Sith was the best film of the films while this one was the worse thanks Dave for destroying a classic .

This movie was, is and always will be the worst movie in the Star Wars Saga. This mountain of a terd should have been created. Ok CGI is not bad but the story does not follow the events that happened in the movies or books. Don't bother with this !