Star Wars: Clone Wars - Volume One
by Tippy Bushkin
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Actor: Bryan Andrews, George Lucas, James Arnold Taylor, Jerome Beidler, Mat LucasDirector: Tippy Bushkin
Writer: Bryan Andrews
Writer: Paul Rudish
Writer: Genndy Tartakovsky
Producer: Brian A. Miller
Producer: Claudia Katz
Writer: Darrick Bachman
Writer: Mark Andrews
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Extra tracks, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 69 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Star Wars: Clone Wars - Volume One
DVD Review: Jedi Jousts, Jedi Karate, Jedi Duels, and Jedi Killers!
Summary: 5 Stars
Oh, and Jedi Water-Breathers, Jedi Women, and Mind-Tricks!
Like most fans of Genndy Tartakovsky, I was hyper-ventilating when I heard that he was going to be creating Star Wars cartoons. The man had already proved time and again with Dexter's Lab and the Powerpuff Girls (to say nothign of Samurai Jack), just how tight, slick, mesmerizing (and just plain cool!) action sequences could be in modern cartoons.
Like those shows, the Star Wars cartoons were at first to be only a few minutes in length. "Oh no!", thought many. "How can you tell Star Wars in a space of a minute or two!?". Well, it just so happens that these guys specialize in making minutes count like no other, creating dramatic tension in seconds instead of minutes, and thowing elaborate fights at you right and left, smoothly flowing from one episode to another.
Of course when I saw these awesome cartoons on television I kept telling myself that I HAD to have them on DVD. For animation of this brilliance, the crystal-clear quality of DVD was just an absolute must. The wait HAS been worth it.
While the original flow the show had to be changed (each episode doesn't end in a dramatic musical moment and there are no lightning-fast preveiws of the next episode to grab your attention), these changes were neccisary to make the cartoon episodes flow smoothly in one continuous story arc.
In fact, I'd say I like the DVD version better. In place of individual episodes with beginnings and endings, we have one episode changing to another with screen-wipes (an old Star Wars standby that works to great effect here). The sparkling transfer and high-fidelity sound really add to your enjoyment of the show. And the two short documentaries (and the two commentaries!) will doubtless add to the enjoyment of hardcore fans just as much as they did for me.
The voice actors are mostly different from the movies. There isn't much dialog. The music is not as elaborate or sweeping. the animation is simple. Valid points all, but also all irrelivant. Genndy Tartakovsky's brilliance comes from the simplicity of the animation (you might even say that he's pioneering a brand new way of producing animation in our time). The dialog that is there is carefully chosen and tweaked. Music is used for maximum dramatic effect. And the action scenes...
The real reason to own this DVD is for the AWESOME action scenes. From the space battles, to the underwater battle, from the gladiator arena to the jedi jousts, there are constant surprises in the way that the action sequences work out. And when you see the fight between Ventress and Anakin for the first time you are bound to be impressed (it's the best fight Anakin has had yet {though I have not yet seen Revenge of the Sith}). I mean, in Attack of the Clones we had a fight between Obi Wan and Jango Fett, and I was dissapointed. In this we have a fight between Ventress and Anakin that is not only longer, but is more elaborate, and features a light-saber fight in the rain with crackling and SIZZLING of the light-sabers while the two combatants wait for the other to make the first move.
The characters manage to convey emotion despite a lack of dialog. In the first episode there is a wonderful farewell between Padme and Anakin (where Padme just looks at him and blinks like a character out of a Chuck Jones cartoon), in the episode with the two female jedi (my personal favorite) we get a strong sense of friendship and understanding (the last time the apprentice imitates her master is really great), and in the episode where Yoda launches a rescue for the two Jedi the interaction between Yoda and Padme (and the looks that they exchange when he tells her that he'll call her if he needs her help) is really sweet.
The greatest episode overall though, is probably the last. When a collective of Jedi are surrounded by General Grievous and his driod army, we finally get to see a REAL villain capable of wiping out Jedi (just as the space battles let us finally see why Anakin was the best star-pilot in the galaxy). The first time I saw Grievous fight all those jedi at once my mind was blown. It's a wonderful action sequence that keeps you guessing and keeps up a break-neck pace to the end, and also a wonderful tie-in to the movie still to come.
Now if only they would release the rest of the episodes on DVD so I can finally sleep at night...
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