Matt Yglesias

Begun These Clone Wars Reviews Have

I kind of had this hope that if George Lucas was able to do away with human actors, who he clearly doesn’t much care for, that he might be able to put a decent movie together again. But I was sufficiently disappointed in the prequels that I haven’t really read any Clone Wars coverage and this certainly doesn’t sound very good:

A week ago I would have told you that I was just “uninterested” in seeing The Clone Wars. Today, after reading some trusted reviews, you would have to drag me kicking and screaming to see this abortion of a movie. From what I have read it is everything I have feared in a Star Wars film. The plot centers around Jabba the Hutt’s son, nicknamed Stinky (not making this up), getting kidnapped and Anakin Skywalker and his new, hip, cool, sassy, spunky, teenage female sidekick — who apparently refers to him as “Sky Guy” — try to rescue him. This addition is on the level of adding Poochie to The Itchy and Scratchy Show, only for real.

Ah, Stinky, we hardly knew ye.