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Article: Force is not with 'Clone Wars'.(Entertainment)

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September 26, 2008
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STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS. Directed by Dave Filoni, with Matt Lanter, Ian Abercrombie, Anthony Daniels, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Kane, Matthew Wood, James Arnold Taylor and Christopher Lee.

Review: MICHAEL ORDONA

With, presumably, no more live-action episodes coming, what can fans reasonably expect from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the theatrical pilot for the upcoming animated television series?

Well, there's knockout animation, facsimiles of popular characters and plenty of action. But anyone older than eight with the majority of brain functions intact will have a bad feeling about this.

It's all but given that the wonder of actual humans inhabiting the ...

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