Review: Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume One

Bridging Attack of the Clones and the forthcoming Revenge of the Sith, Clone Wars is a Cartoon Network "micro-series," where the "micro" refers to the length of each episode, a little over three minutes. The abbreviated running time works in the series' favour; by breaking the story down into tiny, compact episodes, we regain something that's been lost from Star Wars for some time: the feel of a mid-twentieth century movie serial. It's welcome, and it also serves a counterbalance—because in another significant way Clone Wars loses something integral to Star Wars: an awful lot of it is pantomime. Some of this is simply due to the subject matter: Clone Wars focuses on the grand campaigns of the war itself, the secret war of the Sith versus the Jedi, and the internal war that Anakin experiences as he wrestles with his (and the Force's) dark side and clashes with Obi-Wan Kenobi. That leaves a lot of room for battle scenes, and not much room for Star Wars' characteristic talkiness. Source: FPS Magazine