FeedStar Wars - Episode 2.1 - The Pointless Cartoon
August 27, 2008 in Uncategorized
By Anon E. MouseMy oldest boy loves Star Wars. He reads the books and the comic books and can tell the difference between an AT-AT and an AT-ST and all the variations. He recognizes the wisdom of Yoda (but hates it when I use it on him.)
Anyway, there is a new Star Wars movie out. It is called Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and it was mandated that we would see it as a family(after rooms were cleaned, dishes were done, trash taken out and a myriad of other household tasks.)
Of course, my son thought it was great.
On the other hand, I think it was pointless. There just was no reason to give a Womp Rat’s behind bout anyone or anything in the story. There were several extended battle scenes between countless faceless Clone Troopers and equally redundant Battle Droids. There was no sense of drama or scope. The wooden dialogue did not have real flesh-and-blood faces to help give it meaning. Even the backgrounds seems to lack detailing that could have given the end-product some feeling of depth.
I haven’t seen anything this bad since the Star Wars Holiday Special. (Yes, I saw in on TV on a black-and-white 15″ box - I was ten years old.)
A wise resident of Degobah once said:
Pain, suffering, death I feel. Something terrible has happened.
Well, I think we are feel it, too, Master Yoda.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:40 am
You can still find the Holiday Special online… it is great to watch and see just how really bad it is. The copy I watched still had the commercials intact, which was very interesting as well. A lot of the ads were pro-union, buy American, sorts of advertisements.
There was one for Maytag (I am pretty sure it was Maytag). Which was doubly interesting cause of the closure of Maytag in Galesburg. The gist was that if they didn’t make it in the good ole U.S. of A… it wasn’t going to be made at all. My how times change.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I couldn’t get through the Holiday Special. It literally put me to sleep.
Anon — I believe this is an extension of the animated “Clone Wars” series. You may want to look at that for comparison.
I haven’t seen either, so I can’t really make a judgment. But for what it’s worth, you made it sound as awful as it looks.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
The last three Star Wars movies were essentially live-action cartoons anyway.