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Star Wars: Clone Wars—Volume One
Dennis Burger
06/01/2005
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Produced by: Cartoon Network, Lucasfilm Ltd.,and Rough Draft Studios
Distributed by: Fox Home Entertainment
 “General Kenobi, years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars ...” Six years
before she would don a metal bikini and experiment with bondage, Princess Leia
sparked the dreams and imaginations of an entire generation with those words.
Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith tease us with the first and final
skirmishes in this mythological conflict, but what about the battles themselves?
The answer to that question comes in the form of Star Wars: Clone Wars, an “epic
micro-series” from Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of Dexter’s Laboratory and
Samurai Jack.
Volume One collects the first two of the series’ three seasons
on one DVD, editing 20 episodes into one hour-long movie, which certainly makes
for a more fluid narrative than the three-minute chunks that originally aired on
Cartoon Network. The show’s clean, bold, and lusciously saturated wide-screen
imagery is a treat for Star Wars fans and videophiles alike, and while the audio
is two-channel only, it manages to handle all of the trademark sounds from a
galaxy far, far away with plenty of panache. Pick it up for the fantastic
presentation or just to see Mace Windu lay waste to thousands of droids without
breaking a sweat—either way, this is must see TV-on-DVD.
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