Those who have seen Tartakovsky's other work, especially Samurai Jack, will recognise the director's unique personal stylings which are easily identifiable in Clone Wars. This isn't necessarily the drawback it might seem - the depth that emerges after the hour is surprising - but the goal of showing highlights of the Clone Wars is never far from the animators' minds. While the twenty episodes shown on this disc end-to-end unite to form a whole, the staccato nature of the episodes requires each piece to be a plot- and dialogue-light burst of action.

The episodes were concurrently placed on Cartoon Network's website and at. Designed less as an entity in itself than as a token to fans, Clone Wars began as a weekly three-minute interstitial shown on the US' Cartoon Network between its prime-time shows. In fact, it's difficult to describe much more as the first series of Clone Wars is simply a series of battle sequences. The story of Star Wars: Clone Wars takes place between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, with the war well underway. In this case, however, he called on Genndy Tartakovsky - the creator of The Powerpuff Girls and Samurai Jack - and the partnership produced one of the finest pieces of TV animation in recent years. In what is traditionally a disastrous move, the strong-willed, proprietorial creator of the series sent for a strong-willed, proprietorial creator of another series with an individual style in order to complete his work. 'I was once a Jedi knight - the same as your father.'Īlluded to in the first film as the galaxy's greatest conflict, George Lucas was unable to find room in his Star Wars prequel trilogy to devote time to the action movie that fans of the series had been looking for and franchise novels had teased about for decades. If you create a user account, you can add your own review of this DVDĪudio Commentary- Director: Hyperspace Fan Club EditionĮnglish Audio Commentary Dolby Digital 2.0 (192Kb/s)

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